No L 125/56 Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 5. 84 COMMISSION DECISION of 18 April 1984 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Tracor — Signal Averager, model TN-1550" may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (84/245/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 (}), and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 3 October 1983, the Federal Republic of Germany requested the Commission to invoke the procedure provided for ip Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2784/79 in order to determine whether or not the apparatus described as ‘Tracor — Signal Averager, model TN-1550", ordered on 16 December 1982 and intended to be used for research by means of electron-nuclear double resonance spec- troscopy on photolytically prepared primary products of bacterial and plant photosynthesis, should be con- sidered to be 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 representatives of all the Member States met on 11 April 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 signal analysis system ; whereas its objective technical characteristics, such as the () 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. frequency response and the precision, 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 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 applies, in particular, to the apparatus ‘IN 110’ manufactured by Intertechnique, F-78370 Plaisir, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as “Tracor — Signal Averager, model TN-1550°, which is the subject of an applica- tion by the Federal Republic of Germany of 3 October 1983, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 18 April 1984. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NAR JES Member of the Commission