Vacuum cleaner company Dyson has stated that it will appeal the European Court of Justice’s ruling, which says it is not entitled to a £150 million compensation for flaws in energy efficiency regulations.
Sir James Dyson, the company’s billionaire owner, is one of the EU’s outspoken critics The main supporter of the Brexit movementHe argued that the EU’s mandatory testing “illegal misled millions of consumers” and sought compensation from the European Commission for lost sales and wasted time.
James Dyson is controversial Moved Dyson headquarters to Singapore He claimed that in early 2019, in order to get closer to the growing Asian market.However, the European Union is still an important market for the company, and its products Designed in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
The court dispute focused on energy efficiency stickers, ranking all vacuum cleaners sold in the European Union from A to G. After years of legal battle Dyson successfully argued that the first version of the test required an empty bag or dust chamber and was therefore flawed because it did not reflect real-world usage. The law was repealed in 2018 after the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice, intervened.
However, the lower EU general court ruled on Wednesday that the commission did not violate its duty to act fairly, nor did it unfairly discriminate against manufacturers such as Dyson and other bagless manufacturers. It stated that there was enough doubt about the validity of the test to justify the committee’s choice to use an empty bag.
“By using standardized empty container testing methods, the committee did not obviously and severely ignore the limitations of its discretion, nor did it seriously violate the principles of equal treatment and sound management,” the court said in a published summary of the judgment. on Wednesday.
Dyson reacted angrily to the verdict and lashed out at the German rivals.
A spokesperson for Dyson said: “The ordinary courts who chose to overturn the previous rulings of the European Court of Justice do not seem to care that the committee violated their own laws and ignored Dyson’s evidence-they claimed that it was not obvious enough to justify them. Damages. .
“This is an insult to millions of misguided shoppers who have completely ignored the huge damage done to Dyson-up to 150 million pounds. At the same time, although they have always supported the European bag machine lobby, including the main German manufacturer, but the committee remained indifferent.”
Dyson has the right to appeal to the court within the next two months and ten days.
