30. 11. 82 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 338/27 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 15 November 1982 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Pulsar-EMP Generator, model Pulspak 8080, with Washington-VPD-I Antenna’ may be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (82/796/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 26 March 1982, the Nether- lands have 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 ‘Pulsar-EMP Generator, model Pulspak 8080, with Washington-VPD-I Antenna’, ordered on 24 December 1980 and to be used for research into the effects of an EMP on cable networks and electronic equipment and in particular to produce artificially over a limited geographical area a very intense short-lived electromagnetic field, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of 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. equivalent scientific value is currently being manufac- tured 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 16 July 1982 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 generator completed with an antenna ; Whereas its objective technical characteristics such as the duration and the risetime of the radiated electro- magnetic impulses 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, 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 ‘Pulsar-EMP Generator, model Pulspak 8080, with Washington-VPD-I Antenna’, which is the subject of an application by the