27. 11. 97 Official Journal of the European Communities L 324/11 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2335/97 of 24 November 1997 repealing Regulation (EEC) No 611/93 with respect to the imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports into the Community of certain electronic microcircuits known as DRAMs originating in the Republic of Korea 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 Commun- ity ('), and in particular Article 11 (3) thereof, Having regard to the proposal submitted by the Commis- sion after consulting the Advisory Committee, Whereas: A. Previous procedure By Decision 93/157/EEC (), the Commission accepted undertakings from all known Korean DRAM producers which exported this product to the Community. The Council, by Regulation (EEC) No 611/93 (?), imposed a residual duty on imports of DRAMs originating in the Republic of Korea in order to bring non-cooperating parties within the scope of the measures against the dumping of DRAMs and to underpin the undertakings. In June 1995, the Commission decided by De- cision 95/197/EC (¥), to suspend the above anti- dumping measures for a period of nine months. In March 1996, the suspension was extended by the Council by Regulation (EC) No 399/96 (°), for a further period of 12 months. B. Review investigation In July 1995, the Commission initiated on its own initiative an interim review concerning imports of DRAMs originating in Japan and the Republic of Korea pursuant to Article 11 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96 (%) (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Basic Regulation’). (') OJ L 56, 6. 3. 1996, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regula- tion (EC) No 2331/96 (O] L 317, 6. 12. 1996, p. 1). () OJ L 66, 18. 3. 1993, p. 37. () OJ L 66, 18. 3. 1993, p. 1. () O L 126, 9. 6. 1995, p. S6. () O L 55, 6. 3. 1996, p. 1. ( OJ C 181, 15. 7. 1995, p. 13. ®) (8) C. Product under consideration The product concerned by this investigation is dynamic random access memories (DRAMs), whether in processed wafer form or dice form, assembled or further processed onto modules, manufactured using variations of Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) process technology, includ- ing CMOS and BiCMOS etc, and including, without limitation, product variations using DRAM technology such as VRAMs, pseudo SRAMs, S-DRAMs  (synchronous DRAMs), MDRAMs (multibank  DRAMs), R-DRAMs (RAMBUS- DRAMs), of all densities (including future dens- ities), irrespective of access speed, configuration, frame or package, etc. The product is currently classifiable under the following CN codes: 85421311, 85421313, 85421315, 85421317, 85421901, 854219 05 (for finished DRAMEs), 854213 01 (for DRAM wafers), 85421305 (for DRAM dice or chips), 8548 90 00, 84733010 and 8473 50 10 (for DRAM modules, DRAM boards and DRAM cards). D. Definition of the Community industry The Community industry concerned by this review consists of Motorola Ltd (UK), SIEMENS (D) and Texas Instruments Italia (I). All of them cooperated in this investigation and are members of the Euro- pean Electronic Component Manufacturers’ Associ- ation (EECA), which lodged the original complaint. The collective output of the abovementioned Community industry constitutes a major propor- tion of the total Community production of DRAMs in accordance with Article 4 (1) of the Basic Regu- lation. E. Withdrawal of support to the proceeding In July 1997, the Community industry withdrew its support for the continuation of the existing anti- dumping measures, (both with respect to imports from Japan and from Korea). The complainant considered it appropriate to take this step in view of the envisaged negotiation of voluntary industry- to-industry agreements between the complainant Community industry and the Japanese and Korean associations of DRAM producers, the aim of which