Judgment_paragraph 75 · Commission of the European Communities v European Central Bank (C-11/00)

75Furthermore, the Court has also held that the general principle, to which Article 241 EC gives expression and 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. The Court has found that such a conclusion applies to regulations imposing antidumping duties by virtue of their dual nature as acts of a legislative nature and acts liable to be of direct and individual concern to certain traders (see Case C-239/99 Nachi Europe [2001] ECR I-1197, paragraph 37).