26: 3. 92 Official _]ourriél of the European Communities No L 81/15 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 734/92 of 25 March 1992 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2290/83 laying down provisions for the implementation of Articles 50 to 59b and Articles 63a and 63b of Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty " THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 of 28 March 1983 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No. 3357/91(3), and in particular Article 143 thereof, . Whereas the abovementioned Regulation (EEC) No 3357/91 provided, inter alia, for the revision of Articles 52 to 56 and 63a and 63b of Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 in order to remiove the condition of non- equivalence of Community products; Whereas it is therefore necessary to modify accordingly the implementing ptovisions laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2290/83 (°), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1843/89 (*), and to remove all references to the condition of non-equivalence of Community products ; Whereas to follow the line of the revision of Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 it seems essential to abolish as far as possible the expensive and complicated procedure in- volving in certain instances a decision by the Commission after consultation of a group of experts of all the Member States, meeting within the framework of the Committee on Duty Free Arrangements; * Whereas all references to a decision by the Commission should therefore be deleted and all decisions should be taken at national level ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Duty Free Arrangements, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2290/83 is' hereby amended as follows : 1. Article 2 (1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. The admission free of import duties of educa- tional, scientific and cultural materials referred to in Article 51, 52 (1) and 53 of the basic Regulation, () OJ No L 105, 23. 4. 1983, p. 1. () OJ No L 318, 20. 11. 1991, p. 3. () OJ No L 220, 11. 8. 1983, p. 20. () OJ No L 180, 27. 6. 1989, p. 22. hereinafter referred to as “goods”, shall entail the fol- lowing obligations on the part of the establishment or organization to which the goods are consigned : — to dispatch the goods in question directly to the declared place of destination, — to account for them in its inventory, — to facilitate any verification which the competent authorities consider necessary in order to ensure that ‘the conditions for granting admission free of - import duties are satisfied, or remain satisfied. In addition, in the case of goods referred to in Articles 52 (1) and 53 and the basic Regulation, it shall entail the obligation on the part of the establish- ment or organization to which the goods are consigned to use the abovementioned goods exclu- sively’ for non-commercial purposes within the mearning of the second indent of Article 54 of the basic Regulation’. , . The first subparagraph of Article 3 (2) is replaced by the following : ‘2. Where the establishment or organization to which the goods are lent, hired out or transferred is situated in a Member State other than that in which the establishment that lent, hired out or’transferred the goods is situated, upon the dispatch of such goods the competent customs office of the Member State of dispatch shall issue a control Copy T § in accordance with the rules laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 2823/87 in order to ensure that such goods are _put to a use entitling them to continue to qualify for admission free of import duties.’ . The fitle of Title III is amended to read as follows : ‘TITLE 1II SPECIFIC PROVISIONS . RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION FREE OF IMPORT DUTIES OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS UNDER ARTICLES 52 AND 54 OF THE BASIC REGULATION! . Article 5 is replaced by the following : ‘Article 5 For the purposes of the first indent of Article 54 of the basic Regulation, the objective technical charac- teristics of a scientific instrument or apparatus shall be understood to mean those characteristics resulting from the construction of that instrument or apparatus