CELEX: 31977D0169
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 7 February 1977 allowing admission free of Common Customs Tariff duties of the scientific apparatus described as 'Dye Laser CMX-4'

No L 52/40                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               24. 2. 77
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 7 February 1977
              allowing admission free of Common Customs Tariff duties of the scientific
                                     apparatus described as 'Dye Laser CMX-4'
                                                       (77/ 169/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas     the characteristics  of this  laser and    its
COMMUNITIES,                                                     intended use render material specially adapted to
                                                                 research in the field of space aeronomy ; whereas in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            consequence, it is considered to be a scientific appa­
Economic Community,                                              ratus ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Whereas apparatus of equivalent scientific value is not
1798/75 of 10 July 1975 on the importation free of               currently manufactured in the Community ; whereas,
Common Customs Tariff duties of educational, scien­              however, on the basis of information received from
tific and cultural materials ('),                                Member States, apparatus of equivalent scientific value
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                  capable of use for the same purpose could be available
3195/75 of 2 December 1975 laying down provisions                in the Community from 1 July 1977 ; whereas it
for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No                    appears appropriate, in these circumstances, to limit
1798/75 (2), and in particular Articles 4 and 5 thereof,         the period of validity of the authorization for duty-free
                                                                 admission of the scientific apparatus under considera­
Whereas, by letter dated 28 July 1976, the Belgian               tion,                     ^
Government requested the Commission to invoke the
procedure laid down in Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
(EEC) No 3195/75 in order to determine whether or
not the apparatus described as 'Dye-Laser CMX-4'
equipped with the following accessories :                                                Article 1
— UV accessory CMX-4 UV,                                         1 . The apparatus described as 'Dye Laser CMX-4',
— etalon accessory CMX-4 FP,                                     equipped with its accessories, must be considered to
— pump module CMX-4 PM,                                          be a scientific apparatus.
— stepping motor assembly CMX-4 SM,                              2. The conditions referred to in Article 3 ( 1 ) (b) of
                                                                 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 of 10 July
should be considered to be a scientific apparatus, and           1975 for admission free of Common Customs Tariff
where the reply is in the affirmative, whether appa­             duties of the apparatus described in paragraph 1 are
ratus of equivalent scientific value is currently manu­          fulfilled .
factured in the Community ;
Whereas, in accordance with provisions of Article 4                                      Article 2
(5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3195/75, a group of                   The period of validity of this Decision expires on 30
experts composed of representatives of all of the                June 1977.
Member States met on 21 January 1977 within the
Committee on Duty-Free Arrangements to examine                                           Article 3
this particular case ;
                                                                 This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas this examination shows that the apparatus in
question is a dye laser for ultra-violet intended for
use :
                                                                 Done at Brussels, 7 February 1977.
— in radiometry, for the 'etalonnage' of ultra-violet
     and visible spectrometers, as well as of optical                                       For the Commission
     components,                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
— in spectroscopy for ascertaining the effective
     sections of absorption at atmospheric gases ;                                     Member of the Commission
(») OJ No L 184, 15. 7. 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 316, 6. 12. 1975, p. 17.