No L 25/90 Official Journal of the Buropean Communities 28. 1. 89 COMMISSION DECISION of 20 January 1989 terminating the proceedings under Article 13 (10) of Regulation (EEC) No 2423/88 concerning certain ball bearings assembled in the Community (89/57/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2423/88 _of 11 July 1988 on protection against dumped or subsidized imports from countries not members of the European Economic Community (), and in particular Article 13 (10) thereof, After consultations within the Advisory Committee as provided for under the above Regulation, Whereas : A. Procedure () In April 1988, the Commission received a complaint lodged by FEBMA, the Federation of European Bearing Manufacturers Associations, on - behalf of producers of ball bearings whose collective output constitutes a major proportion of Community production of the product in question. The complaint contained sufficient evidence of the fact that, following the opening of the investi- gations concerning ball bearings originating in Japan (3 (%), which led to the adoption of Council Regulations (EEC) No 2089/84 () and (EEC) No 1739/85 (%) imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of those products, two companies were assembling ball bearings in the Community under the conditions referred to in Article 13 (10) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2176/84 (), since replaced by Regulation (EEC) No 2423/88. Accordingly, after consultation, the Commission announced, by notice published in the Official Journal of the European Communities(’), the initiation of an investigation, under the said Article 13 (10), concerning ball bearings assembled in the Community by companies related to, or associated with, the following Japanese manufacturers whose - exports of ball bearings are subject to a definitive anti-dumping duty : () OJ No L 209, 2. 8. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No C 188, 14. 7. 1983, p. 8. () O No C 101, 13. 4. 1984, p. 11. () OJ No L 193, 21. 7. 1984, p. 1. () OJ No L 167, 27. 6. 1985, p. 3. (9 OJ No L 201, 30. 7. 1984, p. 1. () O No C 150, 8. 6. 1988, p. 4. @ 3 “@ ® 6 ™ — Nippon Seiko KK, ~— NTN Toyo Bearing Co. Ltd. - The Commission so advised the companies, the representatives of Japan and the complainants, and gave the parties directly concerned the opportunity to make known their views in writing and to request a hearing. The two companies concerned and the complainants made their views known in writing and requested and were granted hearings by the Commission. No submissions were made by purchasers of ball bedrings assembled .in the Community. The Commission sought and verified all information it deemed necessary for the purpose of the assessment of the character of the alleged assembly operations and carried out investigations at the premises of the following companies : — NSK Bearings (Europe) Ltd, UK, — NTN Kugellagerfabrik, Germany. The period of investigation was from 1 December 1987 to 31 May 1988. 'B. Relationship or association with ‘exporter The two companies referred to in’ recital 4 were found to be wholly owned subsidiaries of Japanese exporters of ball bearings which were subject to the definitive anti-dumping duties imposed by Regulations (EEC) No 2089/84 and (EEC) No 1739/85. C. Production . Both companies concerned were found to have established assembly or production plants for ball bearings in the Community prior to the opening of the relevant anti-dumping investigation and, for both these plants, it was claimed that no substantial increase in quantities assembled had occurred since the date of the initiation. It was, however, established that, at both plants, volumes of ball bearings assembled increased by more than 24 % in the year following the opening of the original ‘ investigation, and that, if the subsequent year is used as the basis, the increases in both cases were found to be more than 40 % for the two year period. In addition, in both cases, these increases followed a period of relative stability in production