Examples of professional equipment (2024)

Equipment for the press such as:

• personal computers
• telefax equipment
• typewriters
• cameras of all kinds (film and electronic cameras)
• sound or image transmitting, recording or reproducing apparatus (tape and video recorders and video reproducers, microphones, mixing consoles, loudspeakers)
• sound or image recording media, blank or recorded
• testing and measuring instruments and apparatus (oscillographs, tape and video recorder test systems, multimeters, tool boxes and bags, vectorscopes, video generators and so on)
• lighting equipment (spotlights, converters, tripods)
• operational accessories (cassettes, exposure metres, lenses, tripods, accumulators, battery belts, battery chargers, monitors).

Equipment for the press includes vehicles designed or specially adapted for use with the equipment noted above.

Sound broadcasting equipment such as:

• telecommunication equipment, for example, broadcast transmitter-receivers or transmitters, terminals connectable to network or cable, satellite links
• audio frequency production equipment (sound pick-up, recording or reproducing apparatus)
• testing and measuring instruments and apparatus (oscillographs, tape and video recorder test systems, multimeters, tool boxes and bags, vectorscopes, video generators and so on)
• operational accessories (clocks, stopwatches, compasses, microphones, mixing consoles, sound tapes, generating sets, transformers, batteries and accumulators, battery chargers, heating, air-conditioning and ventilating apparatus and so on)
• sound recording media, blank or recorded.

Sound broadcasting equipment includes vehicles designed or specially adapted for use with the equipment noted above.

Television broadcasting equipment such as:

• television cameras, telecinema
• testing and measuring instruments and apparatus
• transmission and re-transmission apparatus
• communication apparatus
• sound or image recording or reproducing apparatus (tape and video recorders and video reproducers, microphones, mixing consoles, loudspeakers)
• lighting equipment (spotlights, converters, tripods)
• editing equipment
• operational accessories (clocks, stopwatches, compasses, lenses, exposure metres, tripods, battery chargers, cassettes, generating sets, transformers, batteries and accumulators, heating, air-conditioning and ventilating apparatus and so on)
• sound or image recording media, blank or recorded (credit titles, station call signs, music inserts and so on)
• film rushes
• musical instruments, costumes, scenery and other stage properties, pedestals, make-up material and hairdryers.

Television broadcasting equipment includes vehicles designed or specially adapted for use with the equipment noted above.

Cinematographic equipment such as:

• cameras of all kinds (film and electronic cameras)
• testing and measuring instruments and apparatus (oscillographs, tape and video recorder test systems, multimeters, tool boxes and bags, vectorscopes, video generators and so on)
• camera 'dollies' and booms
• lighting equipment (spotlights, converters, tripods)
• editing equipment
• sound or image recording or reproducing apparatus (tape and video recorders and video reproducers, microphones, mixing consoles, loudspeakers)
• sound or image recording media, blank or recorded (credit titles,station call signs, music inserts and so on)
• film rushes
• operational accessories (clocks, stopwatches, compasses, microphones, mixing consoles, sound tapes, generating sets, transformers, batteries and accumulators, battery chargers, heating, air-conditioning and ventilating apparatus and so on), musical instruments, costumes, scenery and other stage properties, pedestals, make-up material and hairdryers.

Cinematographic equipment also includes vehicles designed or specially adapted foruse with the equipment specified above.

Other equipment such as:

• Equipment for erection, testing, commissioning, checking, control, maintenance or repair of machinery, plant, means of transport and so on, such as:
  • tools
  • measuring, checking or testing equipment and instruments (temperature, pressure, distance, height, surface, speed and so on) including electrical instruments (voltmeters, ammeters, measuring cables, comparators, transformers, recording instruments and so on) and jigs
  • apparatus and equipment for taking photographs of machines and plant during or after erection
  • apparatus for survey of ships.
• Equipment necessary for business people, business efficiency consultants, productivity experts, accountants and members of similar professions such as:
  • personal computers
  • typewriters
  • sound or image transmitting, recording or reproducing apparatus
  • calculating instruments and apparatus.
• Equipment necessary for experts undertaking topographical surveys or geophysical prospecting work such as:
  • measuring instruments and apparatus
  • drilling equipment
  • transmission and communication equipment.
• Equipment necessary for experts combating pollution.
• Instruments and apparatus necessary for doctors, surgeons, veterinary surgeons, midwives and members of similar professions.
• Equipment necessary for archaeologists, palaeontologists, geographers, zoologists and other scientists.
• Equipment necessary for entertainers, theatre companies and orchestras, including all articles used for public or private performances (musical instruments, costumes, scenery and so on).
• Equipment necessary for lecturers to illustrate their lectures.
• Equipment necessary for photography trips (cameras of all kinds, cassettes, exposure metres, lenses, tripods, accumulators, battery belts, battery chargers, monitors, lighting equipment, fashion goods and accessories for models and so on).

Vehicles designed or specially adapted for use with all the equipment listed above such as mobile inspection units, travelling workshops and travelling laboratories.

Further information

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