Judgment_paragraph 1 · Ajinomoto Co., Inc. and The NutraSweet Company v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities (C-76/98 P, C-77/98 P)

1By applications lodged at the Registry of the Court of Justice on 20 March 1998, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (‘Ajinomoto’), in Case C-76/98 P, and The NutraSweet Company (‘NutraSweet’), in Case C-77/98 P, each brought an appeal pursuant to Article 49 of the EC Statute of the Court of Justice against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 1997 in Joined Cases T-159/94 and T-160/94 Ajinomoto and NutraSweet v Council [1997] ECR II-2461 (‘the contested judgment’), by which the Court of First Instance dismissed their action for annulment of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1391/91 of 27 May 1991 imposing a definitive antidumping duty on imports of aspartame originating in Japan and the United States of America (OJ 1991 L 134, p. 1).