Council Regulation (EC) No 176/2000 of 24 January 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1015/94 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of television camera systems originating in Japan
Date: 2000-01-24
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Japan, anti-dumping duty, import, originating product, recording equipment

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 176/2000

of 24 January 2000

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,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22
December 1995 on protection against dumped imports from
countries not members of the European Community (1),

systems to its Annex and thus excluding those from the
application of the definitive anti-dumping duty.

B. INVESTIGATION CONCERNING NEW MODELS OF

PROFESSIONAL CAMERA SYSTEMS

Having regard to the proposal submitted by the Commission
after consulting the Advisory Committee,

1. Procedure

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURES

The Council, by Regulation (EC) No 1015/94 (2),
imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of
television camera systems (hereinafter ‘TCS’) originating
in Japan.

The Council specifically excluded from the scope of the
anti-dumping duty the professional camera systems
listed in the Annex to that Regulation (hereinafter
referred to as ‘the Annex’), representing high-end profes-
sional camera systems technically falling within the
product definition under Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1015/94, but which cannot be regarded as broadcast
cameras.

In October 1995, the Council, by Regulation (EC) No
2474/95 (3), amended the abovementioned Regulation
(EC) No 1015/94,
in particular as regards the like
product definition and as regards certain models of
professional camera systems explicitly exempted from
the scope of the definitive anti-dumping duty.

In October 1997, the Council, by Regulation (EC) No
1952/97 (4) amended the rates of the definitive anti-
dumping duty for two companies concerned, namely for
Sony Corporation and Ikegami Tsushinki in accordance
with Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 384/96. Further-
more, the Council specifically excluded from the scope
of the anti-dumping duty certain new models of profes-
sional camera systems adding them to the Annex.

(5)

In January 1999, the Council, by Regulation (EC) No
193/1999 (5) amended Regulation (EC) No 1015/94
adding certain successor models of professional camera

(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 Regu-

lation (EC) No 193/1999. (OJ L 22, 29.1.1999, p. 10).

(3) OJ L 255, 25.10.1995, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 276, 9.10.1997, p. 20.
(5) OJ L 22, 29.1.1999, p. 10.

(6)

(7)

Subsequently, a number of Japanese exporting producers
informed the Commission that they intended to intro-
duce new models of professional camera systems into
the Community market and requested to add these new
models of professional camera systems and their acces-
sories to the Annex and thus exempt them from the
scope of the anti-dumping duties.

The Commission informed the Community industry
accordingly and commenced an investigation limited to
the determination of whether the products under consid-
eration fall within the scope of the anti-dumping duties
and whether the operational part of Regulation 1015/94
should be amended accordingly.

2. Models under investigation

(8)

Applications were received for the following models of
professional camera systems, supplied with the relevant
technical

information:

(i) Hitachi Denshi, Ltd. (hereinafter ‘Hitachi’)

— Camera head V-21, which was presented as a
successor model of camera head Z-ONE.DA, and
which was sold without a triax adaptor;

— new accessories to V-21:

— 1.5 inch viewfinder GM-9, which was
presented as the standard viewfinder
for
camera head model V-21;

— camera adaptor CA-Z31 and CA-Z32, which
successor models of
were presented as
camera
adaptors CA-Z1A and CA-Z2
already included in the Annex, and which
are to be connected with the camera head
model V-21;

— camera

RC-Z2A and
panel
control
RC-Z21A, which were
as
presented
successor models of camera control panels
RC-Z2 and RC-Z21, already included in the
Annex;

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— Camera head V-21 W, which was presented as
the wide screen version of camera head V-21;
— 5 inch viewfinder GM-51, which was presented
as the standard viewfinder for camera head
model V-21W;

All above models are sold without a corresponding
triax system or triax adaptor.

(ii) Olympus Winter & IBE GmbH (hereinafter ‘Olympus’)
— camera control unit OTV-S6, which was repre-
sented as a model used in the medical sector and
as a successor model of OTV-S5, already
included in the Annex.

(iii) Matsushita

— camera head AW-F575HE, which was presented
head

as
WV-F565HE already included in the Annex;

successor model

camera

of

a

— camera

adaptor

AW-AD500AE

and
AW-AD700BSE, which were presented as
successor models of
adaptor WV-
AD500E and WV-AD700ASE already included
in the Annex.

camera

(iv) Ikegami Tsushinki Co, Ltd (hereinafter ‘Ikegami’)

— camera head HC-400 and HC-400W, which
were presented as successor models of camera
head HC 390 already included in the Annex.
— new accessories to camera head HC-400 and

HC-400W
— viewfinders VF 15-46;
— operational control panel RCU-390;
— camera adaptor CA-400;
— camera control unit MA-200A;

All above models are sold without a corresponding
triax system or triax adaptor.

(v) Victor Company of Japan, Ltd (hereinafter ‘JVC’)

— camera

head

KY-D29WECH, which was
presented as a wide-screen version of the prede-
cessor model KY-D29ECH already included in
the Annex;

(9)

(10)

successor models of the viewfinders VF-P116,
respectively VF-P550BE, already included in the
Annex;

All above models are sold without a corresponding
triax system or triax adaptor;

3. Findings

a detailed comparison of

The Commission carried out a technical examination
the models
including
concerned with their predecessor models listed in the
Annex and found that
they were almost completely
identical. The small differences found are the result of
the technical development in the TCS sector but did not
these TCS as professional
the classification of
affect
camera systems. Therefore,
it was concluded that all
models concerned should be excluded from the scope of
the existing anti-dumping measures.

The Commission informed the Community producers
and the exporters of TCS of its findings and provided
them with an opportunity to present their views. On
this basis and in the light of the fact that the interested
parties did not object to the Commission's conclusions,
all models and related equipment listed in recital (8) are
professional camera systems. It follows that they should
be exempted from the application of the anti-dumping
duty applicable to certain television camera systems
the Annex should be
originating in Japan, and that
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

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

Article 2

— viewfinders VF-P116WE

and VF-PSSOWE,
which can be connected to the abovementioned
new camera head KY-D29WECH and which are

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

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

Done at Brussels, 24 January 2000.

For the Council

The President

J. GAMA

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ANNEX

‘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

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)

DXF-3000CE

DXF-325CE

DXF-501CE

DXF-M3CE

DXF-M7CE

DXF-40CE

DXF-40ACE

DXF-50CE

DXF-601CE

DXF-40BCE

DXF-50BCE

DXF-701CE

DXF-WSCE (1)

Sony

DXC-M7PK

DXC-M7P

DXC-M7PH

DXC-M7PK/1

DXC-M7P/1

DXC-M7PH/1

DXC-327PK

DXC-327PL

DXC-327PH

DXC-327APK

DXC-327APL

DXC-327AH

DXC-537PK

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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Company name

Camera heads

Viewfinder

Camera control unit

Operational control
unit

Master control
unit (*)

Camera adaptors

VF15-21/22

MA-200/230

RCU-240

—

VF-4523

VF15-39

VF15-46 (1)

VF5040 (1)

VF5040W (1)

GM-5 (A)

GM-5-R2 (A)

GM-5-R2

GM-50 (1)

GM-8A (1)

GM-9 (1)

GM-51 (1)

MA-200A (1)

RCU-390 (1)

—

—

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

RC-Z2A (1)

RC-Z21A (1)

CA-340

CA-300

CA-230

CA-390

CA-400 (1)

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)

CA-Z31 (1)

CA-Z32 (1)

Ikegami

Hitachi

HC-340

HC-300

HC-230

HC-240

HC-210

HC-390

LK-33

HDL-30MA

HDL-37

HC-400 (1)

HC-400W (1)

SK-H5

SK-H501

DK-7700

DK-7700SX

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)

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Company name

Camera heads

Viewfinder

Camera control unit

Operational control
unit

Master control
unit (*)

Camera adaptors

FP-C10 A (C)

FP-C10 A (D)

FP-C10 A (F)

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)

V-21 (1)

V-21W (1)

Matsushita

WV-F700

WV-VF65BE

WV-RC700/B

—

—

WV-AD700SE

WV-AD700ASE

WV-AD700ME

WV-AD250E

WV-AD500E (*)

AW-AD500AE

AW-AD700BSE

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-F700ABHE

WV-VF42E

WV-F700MHE

WV-F350

WV-F350HE

WV-F350E

WV-F350AE

WV-F350DE

WV-F350ADE

WV-F500HE (*)

WV-F565HE

AW-F575HE

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

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Company name

Camera heads

Viewfinder

Camera control unit

Operational control
unit

Master control
unit (*)

Camera adaptors

JVC

VF-P315E

VF-P550E

VF-P10E

VP-P115E

VF-P400E

VP-P550BE

VF-P116

RM-P350EG

RM-P200EG

RM-P300EG

RM-LP80E

RM-LP821E

RM-LP35U

RM-LP37U

VF-P116WE (1)

RM-P270EG

VF-P550WE (1)

KY-35E

KY-27ECH

KY-19ECH

KY-17FITECH

KY-17BECH

KY-F30FITE

KY-F30BE

KY-27CECH

KH-100U

KY-D29ECH

KYD29WECH (1)

Olympus

MAJ-387N

MAJ-387I

Camera OTV-SX

OTV-SX2

OTV-S5

OTV-S6

—

—

KA-35E

KA-B35U

KA-M35U

KA-P35U

KA-27E

KA-20E

KA-P27U

KA-P20U

KA-B27E

KA-B20E

KA-M20E

KA-M27E

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