14.12.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 344[1 (Legislative acts) REGULATIONS REGULATION (EU) No 1168/2012 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 December 2012 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207(2) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments, Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (1), Whereas: (1) In Case C-249/10 P (%), the Court of Justice ruled that the sampling technique provided for in Article 17 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 (°) may not be applied for the purposes of determining claims for market economy treatment pursuant to subparagraph (c) of Article 2(7) of that Regulation. (2)  The ruling by the Court of Justice would require that the Commission examine all applications for market economy treatment filed by cooperating exporting (1) Position of the European Parliament of 25 October 2012 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 6 December 2012. (3) Case C-249/10 P Brosmann Footwear (HK) and others v Council, judgment of 2 February 2012. () OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 51. producers who are not part of the sample, irrespective of whether the number of cooperating producers is large. However, such a practice would impose a dispropor- tionate administrative burden on the investigating auth- orities of the Union. Therefore, it is appropriate to amend Regulation (EC) No 1225/20009. (3)  Moreover, the use of the sampling technique provided for in Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 for the purposes of determining claims for market economy treatment pursuant to subparagraph (c) of Article 2(7) of that Regulation is allowed under the rules of the World Trade Organisation. For example, the panel of the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organi- sation in the dispute DS405 ‘European Union — Anti- Dumping Measures on Certain Footwear from China’ (%) (report adopted on 22 February 2012) found that China did not establish that the Union acted inconsistently with Articles 2.4 and 6.10.2 of the Anti-dumping Agreement, paragraph 15(a)(ii) of China’s Accession Protocol, and paragraph 151(e) and (f) of China’s Accession Working Party Report, by failing to examine the market economy treatment applications of the cooperating Chinese exporting producers that were not part of the sample for the original investigation. (4)  Therefore, taking into account that background and for reasons of legal certainty, it is considered appropriate to introduce a provision clarifying that the decision to limit the investigation to a reasonable number of parties by using samples on the basis of Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 also applies to the parties subject to an examination in accordance with subparagraphs (b) and (c) of Article 2(7) of that Regulation. Consequently, it is also appropriate to clarify that a determination under subparagraph (c) of Article 2(7) of that Regulation should not be made for exporting producers that are not part of the sample, unless such producers request and obtain individual examination in accordance with Article 17(3) thereof. (*) WTO, Report of the Panel, WT/DS405/R, 28 October 2011.