Council Regulation (EC) No 193/1999 of 25 January 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1015/94 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of television camera systems originating in Japan
Date: 1999-01-25
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Japan, anti-dumping duty, import, originating product, recording equipment, television

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 193/1999

of 25 January 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 1015/94 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty
on imports of television camera systems originating in Japan

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

specifically excluded from the scope of the anti-
dumping duty certain new models of professional
cameras adding them to the Annex to Regulation
(EC) No 1015/94 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the
Annex').

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of
22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports
from countries
the European
Community (1),

not members

of

B. INVESTIGATION
MODELS OF

CONCERNING

NEW
PROFESSIONAL CAMERA
SYSTEMS

Having regard to the proposal submitted by the Commis-
sion after consulting the Advisory Committee,

1. Procedure

(5)

(6)

(7)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURES

By Regulation (EC) No 1015/94 (2), the Council
imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports
of television camera systems (hereinafter referred to
as ‘TCSs') originating in Japan.

The Council specifically excluded from the scope
of the anti-dumping duty the professional TCSs
listed in the Annex to that Regulation, representing
high-end professional cameras technically falling
within the product definition under Article 1(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 1015/94, as amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 2474/95 (3), but which cannot be
regarded as broadcast cameras.

In October 1995, the Council, by Regulation (EC)
No 2474/95, amended Regulation (EC) No 1015/
94, in particular as regards the like product defini-
tion and as regards certain models of professional
TCSs explicitly exempted from the scope of the
definitive anti-dumping duty.

In October 1997, the Council, by Regulation (EC)
No 1952/97, amended the rates of the definitive
anti-dumping duty for two companies concerned,
namely for Sony Corporation and Ikegami Tsush-
inki in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation
(EC) No 384/96 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the
the Council
Basic Regulation'). Furthermore,

Subsequently,
four Japanese producers/exporters
informed the Commission that they intended to
introduce new models of professional TCSs into
the Community market and requested that these
new models of professional TCSs and their access-
ories be added to the Annex, thus making them
exempt from the scope of the anti-dumping duties.

the Community
The Commission informed
industry accordingly and commenced an invest-
igation limited to the determination of whether the
products under consideration fall within the scope
of the anti-dumping duties and whether Regulation
(EC) No 1015/94 should be amended accordingly.

2. Models under investigation

Applications were
following
models of TCSs, supplied with the relevant tech-
nical information:

received for

the

(i) Ikegami Tsushinki Co. Ltd (hereinafter

referred to as ‘Ikegami')

— camera head HDL-37, which was presented
as a successor to the camera head HDL-
30MA and as a camera primarily used in
the medical and technical sector;

(ii) Hitachi Denshi, Ltd (hereinafter referred to as

‘Hitachi')

(1) OJ L 56, 6. 3. 1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 905/98 (OJ L 128, 30. 4. 1998, p. 18).
(2) OJ L 111, 30. 4. 1994, p. 106. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1952/97 (OJ L 276, 9. 10. 1997, p. 20).

(3) OJ L 255, 25. 10. 1995, p. 11.

— camera head Z-ONE.DA, which was
presented as a successor model of camera
head Z-ONE.D,
sold
without a triax adaptor,

and which was

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— new accessories to Z-ONE.DA:

— camera adaptor CA-Z1A, which was
presented as the new version of camera
adaptor CA-Z1 and which is to be
connected with the camera head model
Z-ONE.DA,

— viewfinder

which

GM-8A,

was
presented as the standard viewfinder for
camera head model Z-ONE.DA and a
successor model of viewfinder GM-5-
R2 already included in the Annex;

(iii) Olympus Winter & IBE GmbH (hereinafter

referred to as ‘Olympus')
— camera control unit OTV-S5,
— camera control unit OTV-SX 2,
— camera head MAJ-387N,
— camera head MAJ-387I.
All abovementioned models were represented
as models used in the medical sector;

concluded that

completely identical. Furthermore,

the
almost
small differences found did not affect the classi-
fication of these TCSs as professional TCSs. The
Commission consequently
all
requests for exclusion should be granted. The
Commission informed the Community producers
and the exporters of TCSs of
its findings and
provided them with an opportunity to present their
views. On this basis and in the light of the fact that
to the
the interested parties did not object
Commission’s conclusions, all models and related
equipment
listed in recital 7 are professional
cameras. It follows that they should be exempted
from the application of
the anti-dumping duty
applicable to certain TCSs originating in Japan,
and that the Annex should be amended accord-
ingly,

(iv) Sony Logistics Europe BV (hereinafter referred

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

to as ‘Sony')
new camera series DXC-D30WSPL, which was
presented as a successor of DXC-D30P camera
series, consisting of:
— camera head DXC-D30WSP,
— viewfinder DXF-701WSCE,
— adaptor VCT-U14,
and which was sold without a triax adaptor.

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1015/94 shall be
replaced by the Annex hereto.

3. Findings

(8)

The Commission carried out a technical exam-
ination including a detailed comparison of
the
models concerned with their predecessor models
they were
listed in the Annex and found that

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of
the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 25 January 1999.

For the Council

The President

J. FISCHER

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ANNEX

List of professional camera systems not qualified as broadcast camera systems which are exempted
from the measures

Company
name

Camera heads

Viewfinder

Camera control unit

Operational
control unit

Master control
unit (*)

Camera adaptors

Sony

DXC-M7PK

DXF-3000CE

DXC-M7P

DXC-M7PH

DXF-325CE

DXF-501CE

DXC-M7PK/1

DXF-M3CE

DXC-M7P/1

DXF-M7CE

DXC-M7PH/1

DXF-40CE

DXC-327PK

DXF-40ACE

DXC-327PL

DXF-50CE

DXC-327PH

DXF-601CE

DXC-327APK

DXF-40BCE

DXC-327APL

DXF-50BCE

DXC-327AH

DXF-701CE

DXC-537PK

DXF-WSCE (1)

RM-M7G

—

CCU-M3P

CCU-M5P

CCU-M7P

CA-325P

CA-325AP

CA-325B

CA-327P

CA-537P

CA-511

CA-512P

CA-513

VCT-U14 (1)

DXC-537PL

DXC-537PH

DXC-537APK

DXC-537APL

DXC-537APH

EVW-537PK

EVW-327PK

DXC-637P

DXC-637PK

DXC-637PL

DXC-637PH

PVW-637PK

PVW-637PL

DXC-D30PF

DXC-D30PK

DXC-D30PL

DXC-D30PH

DSR-130PF

DSR-130PK

DSR-130PL

PVW-D30PF

PVW-D30PK

PVW-D30PL

DXC-327BPF

DXC-327BPK

DXC-327BPL

DXC-327BPH

DXC-D30WSP (1)

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Camera heads

Viewfinder

Camera control unit

Operational
control unit

Master control
unit (*)

Camera adaptors

CA-340

CA-300

CA-230

CA-390

CA-Z1

CA-Z2

CA-Z1SJ

CA-Z1SP

CA-Z1M

CA-Z1M2

CA-Z1HB

CA-C10

CA-C10SP

CA-C10SJA

CA-C10M

CA-C10B

CA-Z1A (1)

Company
name

Ikegami

VF15-21/22

MA-200/230

RCU-240

—

VF-4523

VF15-39

HC-340

HC-300

HC-230

HC-240

HC-210

HC-390

LK-33

HDL-30MA

HDL-37

—

—

RU-C1 (B)

RU-C1 (D)

RU-C1

RU-C1-S5

RU-C10 (B)

RU-C10 (C)

RC-C1

RC-C10

RU-C10

RU-Z1 (B)

RU-Z1 (C)

RU-Z1

RC-C11

RU-Z2

RC-Z1

RC-Z11

RC-Z2

RC-Z21

Hitachi

SK-H5

SK-H501

DK-7700

GM-5 (A)

GM-5-R2 (A)

GM-5-R2

DK-7700SX

GM-50

GM-8A (1)

HV-C10

HV-C11

HV-C10F

Z-ONE (L)

Z-ONE (H)

Z-ONE

Z-ONE A (L)

Z-ONE A (H)

Z-ONE A (F)

Z-ONE A

Z-ONE B (L)

Z-ONE B (H)

Z-ONE B (F)

Z-ONE B

Z-ONE B (M)

Z-ONE B (R)

FP-C10 (B)

FP-C10 (C)

FP-C10 (D)

FP-C10 (G)

FP-C10 (L)

FP-C10 (R)

FP-C10 (S)

FP-C10 (V)

FP-C10 (F)

FP-C10

FP-C10 A

FP-C10 A (A)

FP-C10 A (B)

FP-C10 A (C)

FP-C10 A (D)

FP-C10 A (F)

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Company
name

Camera heads

Viewfinder

Camera control unit

Operational
control unit

Master control
unit (*)

Camera adaptors

FP-C10 A (G)

FP-C10 A (H)

FP-C10 A (L)

FP-C10 A (R)

FP-C10 A (S)

FP-C10 A (T)

FP-C10 A (V)

FP-C10 A (W)

Z-ONE C (M)

Z-ONE C (R)

Z-ONE C (F)

Z-ONE C

HV-C20

HV-C20M

Z-ONE-D

Z-ONE-D (A)

Z-ONE-D (B)

Z-ONE-D (C)

Z-ONE-DA (1)

Matsushita

WV-F700

WV-VF65BE

WV-RC700/B

—

—

WV-AD700SE

WV-F700A

WV-VF40E

WV-RC700/G

WV-F700SHE

WV-VF39E

WV-RC700A/B

WV-F700ASHE WV-VF65BE (*)

WV-RC700A/G

WV-F700BHE

WV-VF40E (*)

WV-RC36/B

WV-AD700ASE

WV-AD700ME

WV-AD250E

WV-AD500E (*)

WV-F700ABHE WV-VF42E

WV-F700MHE

WV-F350

WV-F350HE

WV-F350E

WV-F350AE

WV-F350DE

WV-F350ADE

WV-F500HE (*)

WV-F565HE

WV-RC36/G

WV-RC37/B

WV-RC37/G

WV-CB700E

WV-CB700AE

WV-CB700E (*)

WV-CB700AE (*)

WV-RC700/B (*)

WV-RC700/G (*)

WV-RC700A/B (*)

WV-RC700A/G (*)

WV-RC550/G

WV-RC550/B

JVC

KY-35E

KY-27ECH

KY-19ECH

VF-P315E

VF-P550E

VF-P10E

KY-17FITECH

VP-P115E

KY-17BECH

VF-P400E

KY-F30FITE

VP-P550BE

KY-F30BE

VF-P116

RM-P350EG

RM-P200EG

RM-P300EG

RM-LP80E

RM-LP821E

RM-LP35U

RM-LP37U

—

—

KA-35E

KA-B35U

KA-M35U

KA-P35U

KA-27E

KA-20E

KA-P27U

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Company
name

Camera heads

Viewfinder

Camera control unit

Operational
control unit

Master control
unit (*)

Camera adaptors

KY-27CECH

KH-100U

KY-D29ECH

Olympus

MAJ-387N

MAJ-387I

Camera OTV-SX

RM-P270EG

OTV-SX2

OTV-S5

(*) Also called master set-up unit (MSU) or master control panel (MCP).
(1) Models exempted under the condition that the corresponding triax adaptor is not sold on the EC market.

KA-P20U

KA-B27E

KA-B20E

KA-M20E

KA-M27E