LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Top executives from French cognac companies as well as European Union officials on Thursday attended a hearing in Beijing related to China's anti-dumping investigation into EU brandy, the French cognac association said in a statement.

The executives and representatives of industry associations "firmly reiterated the absence of dumping", the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac's statement said.

(Reporting by Emma Rumney; Editing by Alison Williams)