No L 338/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 11. 82 COMMISSION DECISION of 15 November 1982 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Beckman — Analytical Ultracentrifuge, model E’ may be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties : (82/802/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 of 10 July 1975 on the importation free of Common Customs Tariff duties of educational, scien- tific and cultural materials ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 608/82 (3, Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2784/79 of 12 December 1979 laying down provisions for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 (), and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 7 April 1982, the Federal Republic of Germany has requested the Commission to invoke the procedure provided for in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2784/79 in order to determine whether or not the apparatus described as ‘Beckman — Analytical Ultracentrifuge, model E’, ordered on 10 November 1980 and to be used for structural analysis, in particular the determination and the distribution of the molecular masses of artificial and natural polymers and in particular for the measurement of the sedimen- tation of artificial macromolecules in solution in intense gravitational fields, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of equivalent scientific value is currently being manufactured in the Community ; Whereas, in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 2784/79, a group of experts composed of representatives of all the Member States met on 20 September 1982 within the frame- work of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine the matter; () OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. () O No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. () OJ No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is an ultracentrifuge ; Whereas its objective technical characteristics such as the precision and the sensibility of the analysis and the use to which it is put make it specially suited to scientific research ; whereas, moreover, apparatus of the same kind are principally used for scientific activi- ties ; whereas it must therefore be considered to be a scientific apparatus ; Whereas, on the basis of information received from Member States, apparatus of equivalent scientific value capable of use for the same purpose is not currently manufactured in the Community ; whereas, therefore, duty-free admission of this apparatus is justified, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Beckman — Analytical Ultracentrifuge, model E’, which is the subject of an application by the Federal Republic of Germany of 7 April 1982, may be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 15 November 1982. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commisston