Judgment_paragraph 23 · Council of the European Union v Alumina d.o.o (C-393/13 P)

23In the first place, the third subparagraph of Article 2(1) of the basic regulation states that prices between parties which appear to be associated or to have concluded a compensatory arrangement with each other may not be considered to be in the ordinary course of trade and may not be used to establish normal value unless it is determined, exceptionally, that those prices are unaffected by that relationship (judgment in Petrotub and Republica v Council, C‑76/00 P, EU:C:2003:4, paragraph 85).