Judgment_paragraph 152 · Kaufring AG and Others v Commission of the European Communities (T-186/97, T-187/97, T-190/97, T-191/97, T-192/97, T-210/97, T-211/97, T-216/97, T-217/97, T-218/97, T-279/97, T-280/97, T-293/97, T-147/99)

152In view of the power of assessment enjoyed by the Commission when it adopts a decision pursuant to the general equitable provision contained in Article 13 of Regulation No 1430/79, it is all the more important that observance of the right to be heard be guaranteed in procedures for the remission or repayment of import duties (France-Aviation, cited above at paragraph 139, paragraph 34, Eyckeler & Malt, cited above at paragraph 87, paragraph 77; Case T-50/96 Primex Produkte Import-Export and Others v Commission [1998] ECR II-3773, paragraph 60, and Case T-290/97 Mehibas Dordtselaan v Commission [2000] ECR II-15, paragraph 46; see also to that effect the Opinion of Advocate General Mischo in Case C-15/99 Hans Sommer [2000] ECR I-8989, I-8992, paragraphs 78 to 86). That conclusion is particularly apt where, in exercising its exclusive authority under Article 905 of Regulation No 2454/93, the Commission proposes not to follow the opinion of the national authority as to whether the conditions laid down by Article 13 of Regulation No 1430/79 have been met (France-Aviation, cited above at paragraph 139, paragraph 36).

Kaufring AG and Others v Commission of the European Communities (T-186/97, T-187/97, T-190/97, T-191/97, T-192/97, T-210/97, T-211/97, T-216/97, T-217/97, T-218/97, T-279/97, T-280/97, T-293/97, T-147/99)

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