No L 305/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 8. 11. 83 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 25 October 1983 establishing that the/apparatus described as ‘Control Data — Computer, model Cyber 175-312’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (83/534/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 (%), 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 15 April 1983, the Federal Republic of Germany 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 ‘Control Data — Computer, model Cyber 175-312" ordered on 17 February 1978 and intended for use in data proces- sing for educational and research projects should be considered as 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 respresentatives of all the Member States met on 17 October 1983 within the framework of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrange- ments 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 a computer; whereas by Decision 83/521/EEC (*) the Commission found that the impor- tation of computers known as ‘Control Data — Computer, models Cyber 170-720 and Cyber 170-750 could not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties because they could not be deemed to be scientific apparatus ; Whereas the technical characteristics of the imported apparatus and the results which may be obtained with it are practically identical to those of the apparatus referred to in Decision 83/521/EEC ; whereas, there- fore, it is justified to refuse in this case also the duty- free importation of the apparatus known as ‘Control Data — Computer, model Cyber 175-312’, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Control Data — Computer, model Cyber 175-312’, which is the subject of an application by the Federal Republic of Germany of 15 April 1983, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 25 October 1983. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NAR]JES Member of the Commission () OJ No L 293, 25. 10. 1983, p. 24.