No L 218/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 8. 83 COMMISSION DECISION of 25 July 1983 establishing that the apparatus described as ‘SLM — Spectrofluorometer, model SLM 48005’ may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties (83/377/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 (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 14 January 1983, 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 ‘SLM — Spectrofluorometer, model SLM 4800S’, ordered on 28 May 1980 and intended to be used for the study of the interactions between various substrate molecules and centractile proteins and membrane proteins and in particular for the analysis of the dynamics of these processes, 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 S5 July 1983 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 fluorometer; ) OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. () O] No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 4. () O] No L 318, 13. 12. 1979, p. 32. Whereas its objective technical characteristics such as the precision of the measurements, 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 scien- tific apparatus ; 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 ‘SP-7X’ and ‘SP-8X’ manu- factured by Applied Photophysics Ltd, 20 Albemarle Streét, UK-London W1X 3HA, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘SLM — Spectrofluoro-- meter, model SLM 48008’ which is subject of an appli- cation by the Federal Republic of Germany of 14 January 1983 may not be imported free of Common Customs Tariff duties. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 25 July 1983. For the Commission Karl-Heinz NARJES Member of the Commission