No L 156/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 23. 6. 79 COMMISSION DECISION of 13 June 1979 refusing to accept the scientific character of the apparatus described as ‘JMR-1 Doppler satellite survey receiver’ (79/576/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 (!), Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3195/75 of 2 December 1975 laying down provisions for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 (?), and in particular Articles 4 and S thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 4 December 1978, the United Kingdom Government requested the Commis- sion to invoke the procedure laid down in Articles 4 and S of Regulation (EEC) No 3195/75 in order to determine whether or not the apparatus described as ‘JMR-1 Doppler satellite survey receiver’, intended for measuring the total electron content of the iono- sphere, should be considered as a scientific apparatus and, where the reply is in the affirmative, whether apparatus of cquivalent scientific value is currently being manufactured in the Community; Whereas, in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3195/75, a group of experts composed of representatives of all the Member States met on 27 April 1979 within the Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine this particular case ; Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is a portable receiving and data recording system, which does not have the requisite objective technical characteristics making it specifically suited to scientific research ; whereas this apparatus consti- tutes a special application of an instrument with normal technical characteristics ; whereas moreover it is an apparatus in current use in particular for locating mineral oil deposits under the sea bed; 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, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘JMR-1 Doppler satellite survey receiver is not considered to be a scientific apparatus. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 13 June 1979. For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission (") OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. (2) OJ No L 316, 6. 12. 1975, p. 17.