135Lastly, the applicants submit that, in its judgment in Case T-254/97 Fruchthandelsgesellschaft Chemnitz v Commission [1999] ECR II-2743, paragraph 30, the Court of First Instance left open the question of whether ‘individuals may ... rely on decisions of the [DSB]’. Unlike the applicants in Cordis v Commission, Bocchi Food Trade International v Commission and T. Port v Commission, cited above, the applicants are not referring in the present case to actual provisions of WTO law. The reciprocal and mutually advantageous arrangements which, according to the case-law, serve to deprive individuals of the right to rely directly on those provisions do not apply ‘when a party to the Treaty is unsuccessful in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and is reminded that it is bound by the decision in that case’.
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