No L 87/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 7. 4. 79 COMMISSION DECISION of 23 March 1979 refusing to accept the scientific character of the apparatus described as ‘Burroughs — B7700 Information Processing System’ (79/376/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 (3), and in particular Articles 4 and § thereof, Whereas, by letter dated 22 September 1978, the German Government requested the Commission to invoke the procedure laid down in Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 3195/75 in order to determine whether or not the apparatus described as ‘Burroughs — B7700 Information Processing System’, intended for use in data-processing operations in the context of * tutorial and research projects in the fields of construc- tion, surveying, electrical and aerospace engineering, computer technology, educational theory, economics and organization, should be considered as 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 4 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3195/75, a group of experts composed of representatives of all the Member States met on 7 February 1979 within the Committee (') OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1. (2) O No L 316, 6. 12. 1975, p. 17. on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine this particular case ; Whereas this examination showed that the apparatus in question is an information processing system in current use which does not have any special characte- ristics rendering it specifically suited to pure scientific research ; whereas it.can used in very many areas of data processing ; whereas its use in the case in ques- tion could not alone confer upon it the character of an apparatus specifically suited to pure scientific research ; whereas it therefore cannot be regarded as a scientific apparatus, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The apparatus described as ‘Burroughs — B7700 Infor- mation Processing System’ is not considered to be a scientific apparatus. ' Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Memb_er States. Done at Brussels, 23 March 1979. For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission