61Secondly, the General Court decided, correctly, that if the definitive regulation covered the goods imported by the appellants and that they had not, therefore, correctly classified the goods, the determinant cause of the losses they alleged was their own conduct, and not the alleged unlawful conduct of the Council and Commission. As regards that assumption, the General Court also noted, correctly, in paragraphs 100 and 101 of the judgment under appeal, that it is necessary to verify whether, at the risk of having to bear the damage himself, the person adversely affected had demonstrated, as a prudent person, reasonable diligence in avoiding or limiting the extent of the damage. The causal link may be broken by negligence on the part of the person adversely affected, where that negligence proves to be the determinant cause of the damage.
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