153Lastly, the applicants contend that the Commission, by presenting imports of sugar qualifying for EC/OCT cumulation of origin as causing ‘difficulties’, recognised that the safeguard measure falls within the first hypothesis identified by the Court of Justice in paragraph 47 of its judgment in Case C-390/95 P Antillean Rice Mills and Others v Commission, cited in paragraph 53 above (see also Joined Cases T-32/98 and T-41/98 Netherlands Antilles v Commission [2000] ECR II-201). In those circumstances, the Commission should have demonstrated the existence of a causal link between the imports of OCT products and the disturbances on the Community sugar market, which, however, it failed to do.
Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.