No L 35/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 7. 2. 84 COMMISSION DECISION of 23 January 1984 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Tracor — Multichannel Analysis System, model TN 1710’ may be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (84/56/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 19 July 1983, France has requested the Commission to invoke the procedure provided for in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2784/79 in order to detgrmine whether or not the apparatus described as ‘Tracor — Multichannel Analysis System, model TN 1710°, ordered on 1 February 1983 and intended to be used for picosecond studies of electronic relaxation and molecular reorien- tation of molecules in the excited state, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of equi- valent 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 15 December 1983 within the frame- work of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine the matter; () 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. Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is an analyzer ; whereas its objective tech- nical characteristics such as the spectral answer 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 manufactued in the Community; whereas, therefore, duty-free admission of this apparatus is justified, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Tracor — Multichannel Analysis System, model TN 1710’, which is the subject of an application by France of 19 July 1983, may be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 23 January 1984. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission