No L 44/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 16. 2. 83 COMMISSION DECISION of 28 January 1983 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Bio-Dynamics — High Resolution Ultrasound System, model Biosound’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (83/60/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 (%), and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 29 July 1982, Italy 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 ‘Bio-Dynamics — High Resolution Ultrasound System, model Biosound’, ordered in March 1981 and intended for use in research on the evolution of arte- rial lesion in patients without clinical manifestations of vasculopathy and, in particular, in the study of blood-vessels that have minor degrees of stenosis, should be considered as 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 1982 within the frame- work of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine the matter; () OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. () O] No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is an ultrasound system ; Whereas it does not have the requisite objective characteristics making it specifically suited to scientific research ; whereas, moreover, apparatus 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 ‘Bio-Dynamics — High Resolution Ultrasound System, model Biosound’, which is the subject of an application by Italy of 29 July 1982, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. ‘Done at Brussels, 28 January 1983. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission