No L 244/40 Official Journal of the European Communities 2.9. 83 COMMISSION DECISION of 10 August 1983 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Comsat — Packet Satellite Program (PSP) Terminal’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (83/434/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 (3), and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 4 February 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 ‘Comsat — Packet Satellite Program (PSP) Terminal’, ordered on 28 October 1980 and intended to be used in a research project concerned with the development of network control algorithms and the integration of different streams of data, 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 Community ; Whereas, in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 2784/79, a group of experts composed af representatives of all the Member States met on 22 June 1983, within the framework of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements, to examine the matter; No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is a terminal ; whereas it does not have the requisite objective characteristics making it specifically suited to scientific research ; whereas, moreover, appa- ratus of the same kind are principally used for non-scientific activities ; whereas its use in the case in question 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 is therefore not justified, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Comsat — Packet Satellite Program (PSP) Terminal’, which is the subject of an application by the Federal Republic of Germany of 4 February 1983, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 10 August 1983. For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON Vice-President