No L 120/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 5.5. 84 COMMISSION DECISION of 6 April 1984 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Redlake — High Speed Camera, model Hycam’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (84/238/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 (3, and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 30 September 1983, 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 ‘Redlake — High Speed Camera, model Hycam’, ordered on 14 December 1982 and intended to be used for testing the filling of the lubrication aperture and the foaming and cavitation tendency of lubricants in friction bearings, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affir- mative, whether apparatus of equivalent scientific value is currently being manufactured in the Commu- nity ; 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 March 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 camera ; whereas its objective technical characteristics, such as the high shutter speed, and the o L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. o L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. o L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. o0 s 222 use to which it is put make it specially suited to scien- tific research; whereas, moreover, apparatus of the same kind are principally used for scientific activities ; whereas it must therefore be considered to be a scien- tific 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 manu- factured in the Community ; whereas this appplies, in particular, to the apparatus ‘Hyspeed’ manufactured by JHPI  Ltd, Newhouse Laboratories, Bovingdon, UK-Hemel Hempstead HP3 OEL, Hertfordshire, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Redlake — High Speed Camera, model Hycam’, which is the subject of an application 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, 6 April 1984. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NAR JES Member of the Commission