No L 131/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 13. 5. 82 COMMISSION DECISION of 13 April 1982 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Quanta Ray — Nd: YAG Laboratory Laser System, model DCR-1A, with Pulsed Dye Laser, model PDL-1’, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (82/291/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 (3, and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 5 October 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 — Nd: YAG Laboratory Laser System, model DCR-1A, with Pulsed Dye Laser, model PDL-1’, to be used in the fringe areas of atomic and molecular spec- troscopy, should be considered to be 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 of representatives of all the Member States met, on 22 March 1982, 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 laser; Whereas its objective technical characteristics such as the spectrum of the emissions and the use to which it () 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. 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 scientific appa- ratus ; 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 ‘YG 482’, manufactured by Quantel, 17, avenue de I'Atlantique, F-91941 Les- Ulis-Orsay Cedex, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Quanta Ray — Nd : YAG Laboratory Laser System, model DCR-1A, with Pulsed Dye Laser, model PDL-1’, which is the subject of an application by the Federal Republic of Germany of § October 1981, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 13 April 1982. For the Commission Ftienne DAVIGNON Vice-President