2. 2. 84 / Official _]o.urnal of the European Communities No L 31/27 COMMISSION DECISION of 20 January 1984 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Biomed — Soft Laser Scanning Densitometer, model SL-504 XL TRFF' may not be imported free of Common - Customs Tariff duties (84/52/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPE:I\N | COMMUNITIES, Having regard to‘tﬁg 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, S 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 14 July 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 ‘Biomed — Soft Laser Scanning Densitometer, model SL-504 XL TRFF’, ordered on 20 November 1980 and intended to be used for the quantitation and graphic representa- tion of separated proteins in polymer gels and in parti- cular of the terminal oxidase iso-enzymes of exoge- nous metabolism in pig’s liver, should be considered as a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, 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 15 December 1983 within the frame- () OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. () OJ No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. - work of the Committee on Duty-Free ‘Arrangements to examine the matter; ‘Whereas this  examination showed that the apparatus in question is a laser densitometer; whereas it does not have the requisite objective characteristics making it specifically suited to scientific research ; whereas, in particular the absorption range and the resolution power are not of the nature which would confer upon it this character ; whereas its use in the case in ques- tion could not alone confer upon it the character of a scientific apparatus; whereas it therefore cannot be regarded as a scientific apparatus ; whereas the duty- free admission -of the apparatus in question therefore is “'not justified, ‘HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Biomed — Soft Laser Scanning Densitometer, model SL-504 XL TRFF, which is ‘the subject of an application by the Federal Republic of Germany of 14 July 1983, may not be - imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 20 January 1984. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission