Brussels, 17/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - India has appealed against the Geneva verdict validating the reviewed and corrected anti-dumping measures the Union has imposed since 1997 on certain imports of cotton bed linen. "India calls on the Appellate Body (of the World Trade Organisation) to overturn the panel's conclusions, as it regards them as mistaken in terms of law…and interpretation of the law", states a notification lodged in Geneva last week. In this case, that goes back to 1999, the commercial arbiter concluded that the method - so-called "reduction to zero" - used to calculate European surtaxes was illegal, which the Appellate Body confirmed in March 2001. Following this double verdict, that is a precedent in the annals of the WTO, the Union took new measures to be able to continue countering the dumping of Indian deliveries taking account of the accusations levelled at it. The implementing panel said last November that it was satisfied and rejected one by one the arguments put forward by India. India now claims that the exerts were wrong, notably in claiming that the EU had information demonstrating that the injury suffered by the European industry was to a large extent due to dumping rather than to other factors.