21. 3. 84 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 77/33 COMMISSION DECISION of 13 March 1984 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘SHE — Squid Magnetometer, model 300 X’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (84/166/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 12 September 1983, the Federal Republic of Germany requested the Commis- sion 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 ‘SHE — Squid Magnetometer, model 300 X’, ordered on 15 September 1982 and intended to be used for measur- ing the transient magnetic fields, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of equivalent scien- tific 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 17 February 1984 within the framework of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine the matter; Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is a magnetometer ; Whereas its objective technical characteristics such as the great sensibility 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 activities ; whereas it must therefore be considered to be a scientific apparatus ; Whereas, however, on the basis of information received from Member States, apparatus of scientific value equivalent to the said apparatus, capable of being used for the same purposes, are currently being manufactured in the Community; whereas this applies, in particular, to the apparatus ‘MS 03’ manu- factured by Laboratoire d’électronique et de techno- logie de linformatique, avenue des Martyrs 85X, F-38041 Grenoble, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘SHE — Squid Magneto- meter, model 300 X’, which is the subject of an appli- cation by the Federal Republic of Germany of 12 September 1983, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 13 March 1984. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission () OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. () O] No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32.