Judgment_paragraph 79 · Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities v Interpipe Nikopolsky Seamless Tubes Plant Niko Tube ZAT (Interpipe Niko Tube ZAT) and Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant VAT (Interpipe NTRP VAT) (C-191/09 P, C-200/09 P)

79However, the existence of an irregularity relating to the rights of the defence can result in annulment of the contested regulation only where there is a possibility that, due to that irregularity, the administrative procedure could have resulted in a different outcome and thus in fact adversely affected the rights of defence of Niko Tube and NTRP (see Foshan Shunde Yongjian Housewares & Hardware v Council, paragraph 107).