12. 2. 82 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 41/51 COMMISSION DECISION of 23 December 1981 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Quanta Ray pulsed dye laser, model PDL-1, and Nd: YAG laboratory laser system, model DCR-1A’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (82/84/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 amended by Regula- tion (EEC) No 1027/79 (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 19 June 1981, 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 ‘Quanta Ray pulsed dye laser, model PDL-1, and Nd: YAG labora- tory laser system, model DCR-1A’, to be used for the study of vibration excited molecule reactions and in particular photolysis reactions in the UV region, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether appar- atus 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 of representatives of all the Member States met on 15 December 1981 within the frame- work of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine the matter; Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is a laser; whereas its objective technical () OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. ) OJ No L 134, 31. 5. 1979, p. 1. () OJ No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. characteristics such as the quality of the emissions 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 activi- ties ; whereas it must therefore be considered to be a scientific 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 ‘Laser 8 YAG 10Hz’, manu- factured by Quantel, 17, avenue de I'Atlantique, ZI 91400 Orsay, France, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Quanta Ray pulsed dye laser, model PDL-1, and Nd: YAG laboratory laser system, model DCR-1A’, which is the subject of an application by the Federal Republic of Germany of 19 June 1981, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 23 December 1981. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission