No L 237/38 Official Journal of the Buropean Communities 12. 8. 82 COMMISSION DECISION of 27 July 1982 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘QBI — Sideport Spectrometer System, model 1350’ may be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (82/546/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 26 January 1982, the Nether- lands have 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 ‘QBI — Sideport Spec- trometer System, model 1350°, ordered on 12 December 1980 and to be used for research on the distribution of elements in living cells, should be considered to be a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of equi- valent 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 2 July 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 an X-ray dispersive spectrometer ; () OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. () OJ No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. whereas its objective technical characteristics such as the spectral power 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 activities ; whereas it must therefore be considered to be a scientific apparatus ; Whereas, on the basis of information received from Member States, apparatus of equivalent scientific value capable of use for the same purpose is not currently manufactured in the Community ; whereas, therefore, duty-free admission of this apparatus is justified, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘QBI — Sideport Spectro- meter System, model 1350’, which is the subject of an application by the Netherlands of 26 January 1982, may be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 27 July 1982. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission