49In the alternative, the applicant maintains that, even if the charge in respect of which remission was applied for does not constitute an import or export duty within the meaning of Regulation No 1430/79, the Commission should have considered the application having regard to Article 13 of that regulation, which constitutes a general equity clause (Joined Cases T-186/97, T-187/97, T-190/97, T-190/97 to T-192/97, T-210/97, T-211/97, T-216/97 to T-218/97, T-279/97, T-280/97, T-293/97 and T-147/99 Kaufring and Others v Commission [2001] ECR II-1337, paragraph 224), and that, by simply rejecting the application as inadmissible, it contravened the principles of equality and of equity.
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