Opinion of Mr Advocate General Van Gerven delivered on 26 September 1991

1 Original language: French.

2 Jļf electric moiors concerned fall within CN Code 85014090. It should be noted that these motors are used only in washing machines destined for markets in the south of the Community. As a result of the damper and less sunny climate in the northern part of the Community, washing machines are sold there with motors capable of spin-drying at a higher speed.

3 Notice of initiation of an antidumping proceeding concerning imports of certain single-phase, two-speed electric motors originating in Bulgaria, Romania and Czechoslovakia (OJ 1989 C 286, p 11)

4 Decision terminating an antidumping proceeding concerning imports of certain single-phase, two-speed electric motors originating in Bulgaria, Romania and Czechoslovakia (OJ 1990 L 202, p. 47).

5 Case 191/82 [1983] ECR 2913.

6 Case 264/82 [1985] ECR 849.

7 Regulation (EEC) No 2423/88 of 11 July 1988 on protection against dumped or subsidized imports from countries not members of the EEC (OJ 1988 L 209, p. 1).

8 Opinion delivered on 21 March 1991 in Case C-358/89 [1991] ECR I-2501 ; see in particular paragraphs 18 to 22.

9 Joined Cases C-305/86 and C-160/87 [1990] ECR I-2945.

10 In German insbesondere; in French notamment; in Danish iszr; in Spanish especialmente; in Italian soprattutto; in Greek Ιδίως; in Dutch in hel bijzonder; in Portuguese nomeadamente.

11 Council Regulation (EEC) No 864/87 of 23 March 1987 imposing a definitive antidumping duty on imports of standardized multiphase electric motors having an output of more than 0.75 kW but not more than 75 kW, originating in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland and the USSR, and definitively collecting the amounts secured as provisional duties (OJ 1987 L 83, p. 1). The Court considered that regulation in the judgments delivered on 11 July 1990 in Joined Cases C-304/86 and C-185/87 Enitalv Commission and Council, Joined Cases C-305/86 and C-160/87 Neotype Techmashexport v Commission and Council previously cited, Joined Cases C-320/86 and C-188/87 Stanko France v Commission and Council [1990] ECR I-3013, Case C-157/87 Electroimpex v Council [1990] ECR I-3021 and Case C-323/88 Semes v Directeur des Services des Douanes de Strasbourg [1990] ECR I-3027.

12 [1991] ECR I-2069.

13 See judgment in Joined Cases 273/85 and 107/86 Silver Seiko v Council [1988] ECR 5927 at paragraph 40.