37However, this general principle, which has the effect of ensuring that every person has or will have had the opportunity to challenge a Community measure which forms the basis of a decision adversely affecting him, does not in any way preclude a regulation from becoming definitive as against an individual in regard to whom it must be considered to be an individual decision and who could undoubtedly have sought its annulment under Article 230 EC, a fact which prevents that individual from pleading the illegality of that regulation before the national court (see, in regard to a Commission decision, TWD Textilwerke Deggendorf, paragraphs 24 and 25). Such a conclusion applies to regulations imposing antidumping duties by virtue of their dual nature, noted by the Court in the case-law cited in paragraph 21 of the present judgment, as acts of a legislative nature and acts liable to be of direct and individual concern to certain traders.
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