C-176/87

OPINION OF MR MISCHO —CASES C-176/87

OPINION OF MR ADVOCATE GENERAL MISCHO delivered on 13 December 1990 *

Mr President, like the Council, consider that it is Members of the Court, unnecessary to examine them. As each of the applicants states that,

1. The major part of the submissions of the applicants in Cases C-176/87 Konishiroku, 'since other exporters will be raising these and C-177/87 Sanyo, comprises obser­ matters in separate applications, and in vations lodged jointly with those of the order to reduce the volume of pleadings to applicants in Cases C-174/87 Ricoh v be examined by the Court, this application Council, C-175/87 Matsushita v Council, will concentrate on the questions of injury and C-179/87 Sharp v Council. Those and Community interest' (page ii of each of observations concern determination of the the applications), injury, evaluation of the Community interest and calculation of the anti-dumping duty. The submissions of Konishiroku and Sanyo in that regard must therefore be rejected for the reasons given in my Opinion in Case it may be considered that those observations C-174/87 Ricoh, to which I would refer the do not actually form part of their Court. applications. Moreover, they are rather imprecise and could be easily refuted, first on the basis of the principle that the methods of calculating the normal value and 2. As regards the observations of the the export price respectively are inde­ applicants in the present cases concerning pendent and, secondly, by virtue of the 'the Commission's practices in calculating considerations set out in my Opinions in the whether dumping was present' which, other cases in relation to the submissions occupying one typewritten page, form part concerning the comparison of those two of the introduction to their applications, I, items.