27.17. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 206/23 COMMISSION DECISION of 6 July 1981 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘Finnigan-lncos' 2000 data system’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (81/550/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro- pean 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, scientific and cultural materials (!), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1027/79 (%), 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 19 December 1980, Bel- gium 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 ‘Finnigan-Incos 2000 data system’, to be used in the framework of a phar- macological study of the role and formation of pros- taglandins and other metabolites of arachidonic acid in parts of the body and their involvement in pathological processes, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of equivalent scien- tific 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 (') OJNoL184,15.7.1975,p. 1. (?) OJNoL134,31.5.1979, p. 1. (®>) OJ No L318,13.12.1979, p. 32. the Member States met on 28 April 1981 within the framework of the Committee on Duty-Free Arrange- ments to examine the matter; Whereas this examination showed that the appara- tus in question is a computer; Whereas it does not have the requisite objective characteristics making it specifically suited to scien- tific 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 ‘Finnigan-Incos 2000 data system’, which is the subject of an application by Belgium of 19 December 1980, may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 6 July 1981. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission