No L 118/46 Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 5. 80 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 14 April 1980 finding that the apparatus described as ‘Ampex-multiband instrumentation recorder, model FR-3020’, is not a scientific apparatus and that Decisions 76/544/EEC and 76/812/EEC are hereby repealed (80/477/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council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 9 October 1979, the Govern- ment of Italy has requested the Commission to invoke the procedure now provided for in Article 7 of Regula- tion (EEC) No 2784/79 in order to determine whether or not the apparatus described as ‘Ampex-multiband instrumentation recorder, model FR-3020’, intended for use in connection with stratospheric experiments in telemetry stations, should be considered as a scien- tific apparatus and, where the reply is in the atfirma- tive, whether apparatus of equivalent scientific value 1s 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 ) OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. ) O No L 134, 31. 5. 1979, p. 1. ) O] No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. experts composed of representatives of all the Member States met on 27 March 1980 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 magnetic recorder ; Whereas it does not have the rcquisite objective characteristics making it specifically suited to scien- tific research ; whereas its use in the case in question could not alone confer upon it the character of a scien- tific apparatus; whereas it therefore cannot be regarded as a scientific apparatus ; Whereas the technical evolution of this kind of appa- ratus leads to the conclusion that this is applicable for all magnetic recorders ; whereas, moreover, these recor- ders are principally used for non-scientific activities ; whereas, therefore, the contrary Decisions which were adopted in the past by the Commission for this type of apparatus nced to be repealed, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Avrticle 1 The apparatus described as ‘Ampex-multiband instru- mentation recorder, model FR-3020’, is not consid- ered to be a scientific apparatus.