Annexes to COM(2007)765 - Simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the EC - Main contents
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dossier | COM(2007)765 - Simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the EC. |
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document | COM(2007)765 |
date | May 6, 2009 |
LIST OF DEFENCE-RELATED PRODUCTS
ML1
Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of less than 20 mm, other arms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12,7 mm (calibre 0,50 inches) or less and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
a. | Rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, machine pistols and machine guns: Note ML1.a. does not control the following:
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b. | Smooth-bore weapons, as follows:
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c. | Weapons using caseless ammunition; |
d. | Silencers, special gun-mountings, clips, weapons sights and flash suppressers for arms controlled by sub-items ML1.a., ML1.b. or ML1.c. Note 1 ML1 does not control smooth-bore weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes. These weapons must not be specially designed for military use or of the fully automatic firing type. Note 2 ML1 does not control firearms specially designed for dummy ammunition and which are incapable of firing any controlled ammunition. Note 3 ML1 does not control weapons using non-centre fire cased ammunition and which are not of the fully automatic firing type. Note 4 ML1.d. does not control optical weapon sights without electronic image processing, with a magnification of 4 times or less, provided they are not specially designed or modified for military use. |
ML2
Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of 20 mm or more, other weapons or armament with a calibre greater than 12,7 mm (calibre 0,50 inches), projectors and accessories, as follows, specially designed components therefor:
a. | Guns, howitzers, cannon, mortars, anti-tank weapons, projectile launchers, military flame throwers, rifles, recoilless rifles, smooth-bore weapons and signature reduction devices therefor; Note 1 ML2.a. includes injectors, metering devices, storage tanks and other specially designed components for use with liquid propelling charges for any of the equipment controlled by ML2.a. Note 2 ML2.a. does not control the following:
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b. | Military smoke, gas and pyrotechnic projectors or generators; Note ML2.b. does not control signal pistols. |
c. | Weapons sights. |
ML3
Ammunition and fuse setting devices, as follows, and specially designed therefor:
a. | Ammunition for the weapons controlled by ML1, ML2 or ML12; |
b. | Fuse setting devices specially designed for ammunition controlled by ML3.a. Note 1 Specially designed components include:
Note 2 ML3.a. does not control ammunition crimped without a projectile (blankstar) and dummy ammunition with a pierced powder chamber. Note 3 ML3.a. does not control cartridges specially designed for any of the following purposes:
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ML4
Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and related equipment and accessories, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components therefor:
NB: For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11, Note 7.
a. | Bombs, torpedoes, grenades, smoke canisters, rockets, mines, missiles, depth charges, demolition-charges, demolition-devices and demolition-kits, ‘pyrotechnic’ devices, cartridges and simulators (i.e. equipment simulating the characteristics of any of these items); Note ML4.a. includes:
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b. | Equipment specially designed for the handling, control, activation, powering with one-time operational output, launching, laying, sweeping, discharging, decoying, jamming, detonation or detection of items controlled by ML4.a. Note ML4.b. includes:
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Technical Note
Hand-held devices, limited by design solely to the detection of metal objects and incapable of distinguishing between mines and other metal objects, are not considered to be specially designed for the detection of items controlled by ML4.a.
ML5
Fire control, and related alerting and warning equipment, and related systems, test and alignment and countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:
a. | Weapon sights, bombing computers, gun laying equipment and weapon control systems; |
b. | Target acquisition, designation, range-finding, surveillance or tracking systems; detection, data fusion, recognition or identification equipment; and sensor integration equipment; |
c. | Countermeasure equipment for items controlled by ML5.a. or ML5.b.; |
d. | Field test or alignment equipment, specially designed for items controlled by ML5.a. or ML5.b. |
ML6
Ground vehicles and components, as follows:
NB: For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11, Note 7.
a. | Ground vehicles and components therefor, specially designed or modified for military use; Technical Note For the purposes of ML6.a. the term ground vehicles includes trailers. |
b. | All-wheel drive vehicles capable of off-road use which have been manufactured or fitted with materials to provide ballistic protection to level III (NIJ 0108.01, September 1985, or comparable national standard) or better. |
NB: See also ML13.a.
Note 1 ML6.a. includes:
a. | Tanks and other military armed vehicles and military vehicles fitted with mountings for arms or equipment for mine laying or the launching of munitions controlled under ML4; |
b. | Armoured vehicles; |
c. | Amphibious and deep water fording vehicles; |
d. | Recovery vehicles and vehicles for towing or transporting ammunition or weapon systems and associated load handling equipment. |
Note 2 Modification of a ground vehicle for military use controlled by ML6.a. entails a structural, electrical or mechanical change involving one or more specially designed military components. Such components include:
a. | Pneumatic tyre casings of a kind specially designed to be bulletproof or to run when deflated; |
b. | Tyre inflation pressure control systems, operated from inside a moving vehicle; |
c. | Armoured protection of vital parts, (e.g. fuel tanks or vehicle cabs); |
d. | Special reinforcements or mountings for weapons; |
e. | Blackout lighting. |
Note 3 ML6 does not control civil automobiles, or trucks designed or modified for transporting money or valuables, having armoured or ballistic protection.
ML7
Chemical or biological toxic agents, ‘riot control agents’, radioactive materials, related equipment, components and materials as follows:
a. | Biological agents and radioactive materials ‘adapted for use in war’ to produce casualties in humans or animals, degrade equipment or damage crops or the environment; |
b. | Chemical warfare (CW) agents including:
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c. | CW binary precursors and key precursors, as follows:
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d. | ‘Riot control agents’, active constituent chemicals and combinations thereof, including:
Note 1 ML7.d. does not control ‘riot control agents’ individually packaged for personal self-defence purposes; Note 2 ML7.d. does not control active constituent chemicals and combinations thereof identified and packaged for food production or medical purposes. |
e. | Equipment specially designed or modified for military use, for the dissemination of any of the following and specially designed components therefor:
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f. | Protective and decontamination equipment, specially designed components therefor, and specially formulated chemical mixtures, as follows:
Note ML7.f.1. includes:
NB: For civil gas masks, protective and decontamination equipment see also entry 1A004 on the EU Dual-Use List. |
g. | Equipment specially designed or modified for military use, for the detection or identification of materials controlled by ML7.a. or ML7.b. or ML7.d. and specially designed components therefor; Note ML7.g. does not control personal radiation monitoring dosimeters. NB: See also entry 1A004 on the EU Dual-Use List. |
h. | ‘Biopolymers’ specially designed or processed for the detection or identification of CW agents controlled by ML7.b., and the cultures of specific cells used to produce them; |
i. | ‘Biocatalysts’ for the decontamination or degradation of CW agents, and biological systems therefor, as follows:
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Note 1 ML7.b. and ML7.d. do not control:
a. | Cyanogen chloride (CAS 506-77-4). See 1C450.a.5. on the EU Dual-Use List; |
b. | Hydrocyanic acid (CAS 74-90-8); |
c. | Chlorine (CAS 7782-50-5); |
d. | Carbonyl chloride (phosgene) (CAS 75-44-5). See 1C450.a.4. on the EU Dual-Use List; |
e. | Diphosgene (trichloromethyl-chloroformate) (CAS 503-38-8); |
f. | Deleted; |
g. | Xylyl bromide, ortho: (CAS 89-92-9), meta: (CAS 620-13-3), para: (CAS 104-81-4); |
h. | Benzyl bromide (CAS 100-39-0); |
i. | Benzyl iodide (CAS 620-05-3); |
j. | Bromo acetone (CAS 598-31-2); |
k. | Cyanogen bromide (CAS 506-68-3); |
l. | Bromo methylethylketone (CAS 816-40-0); |
m. | Chloro acetone (CAS 78-95-5); |
n. | Ethyl iodoacetate (CAS 623-48-3); |
o. | Iodo acetone (CAS 3019-04-3); |
p. | Chloropicrin (CAS 76-06-2). See 1C450.a.7. on the EU Dual-Use List. |
Note 2 The cultures of cells and biological systems listed in ML7.h. and ML7.i.2. are exclusive and these sub items do not control cells or biological systems for civil purposes, such as agricultural, pharmaceutical, medical, veterinary, environmental, waste management, or in the food industry.
ML8
‘Energetic materials’, and related substances, as follows:
NB: See also 1C011 on the EU Dual-Use List.
Technical Notes
1. | substance being listed in the ML8 sub-items. |
2. | Any substance listed in the ML8 sub-items is controlled by this list, even when utilised in an application other than that indicated. (e.g. TAGN is predominantly used as an explosive but can also be used either as a fuel or an oxidizer.) |
a. | ‘Explosives’, as follows, and mixtures thereof:
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b. | ‘Propellants’, as follows:
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c. | ‘Pyrotechnics’, fuels and related substances, as follows, and mixtures thereof:
Note 1 Aircraft fuels controlled by ML8.c.1. are finished products not their constituents. Note 2 ML8.c.4.a. does not control hydrazine mixtures specially formulated for corrosion control. Note 3 Explosives and fuels containing the metals or alloys listed in ML8.c.5. are controlled whether or not the metals or alloys are encapsulated in aluminum, magnesium, zirconium, or beryllium. Note 4 ML8.c.5.b.2. does not control boron and boron carbide enriched with boron-10 (20 % or more of total boron-10 content). |
d. | Oxidizers, as follows, and mixtures thereof:
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e. | Binders, plasticisers, monomers, polymers, as follows:
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f. | Additives, as follows:
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g. | ‘Precursors’, as follows: NB: In ML8.g. the references are to controlled ‘Energetic Materials’ manufactured from these substances.
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Note 5 For charges and devices see ML4.
Note 6 ML8 does not control the following substances unless they are compounded or mixed with the ‘energetic material’ mentioned in ML8.a. or powdered metals in ML8.c.:
a. | Ammonium picrate; |
b. | Black powder; |
c. | Hexanitrodiphenylamine; |
d. | Difluoroamine; |
e. | Nitrostarch; |
f. | Potassium nitrate; |
g. | Tetranitronaphthalene; |
h. | Trinitroanisol; |
i. | Trinitronaphthalene; |
j. | Trinitroxylene; |
k. | N-pyrrolidinone; 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone; |
l. | Dioctylmaleate; |
m. | Ethylhexylacrylate; |
n. | Triethylaluminium (TEA), trimethylaluminium (TMA), and other pyrophoric metal alkyls and aryls of lithium, sodium, magnesium, zinc or boron; |
o. | Nitrocelluose; |
p. | Nitroglycerin (or glyceroltrinitrate, trinitroglycerine) (NG); |
q. | 2.4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT); |
r. | Ethylenediaminedinitrate (EDDN); |
s. | Pentaerythritoltetranitrate (PETN); |
t. | Lead azide, normal and basic lead styphnate, and primary explosives or priming compositions containing azides or azide complexes; |
u. | Triethyleneglycoldinitrate (TEGDN); |
v. | 2.4,6-trinitroresorcinol (styphnic acid); |
w. | Diethyldiphenyl urea; dimethylidiphenyl urea; methylethyldiphenyl urea [Centralites]; |
x. | N,N-diphenylurea (unsymmetrical diphenylurea); |
y. | Methyl-N,N-diphenylurea (methyl unsymmetrical diphenylurea); |
z. | Ethyl-N,N-diphenylurea (ethyl unsymmetrical diphenylurea); |
aa. | 2-Nitrodiphenylamine (2-NDPA); |
bb. | 4-Nitrodiphenylamine (4-NDPA); |
cc. | 2,2-dinitropropanol; |
dd. | Nitroguanidine (see 1C011.d. on the EU Dual-Use List). |
ML9
Vessels of war, special naval equipment and accessories, as follows, and components therefor, specially designed for military use:
NB: For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11, Note 7.
a. | Combatant vessels and vessels (surface or underwater) specially designed or modified for offensive or defensive action, whether or not converted to non-military use, regardless of current state of repair or operating condition, and whether or not they contain weapon delivery systems or armour, and hulls or parts of hulls for such vessels; |
b. | Engines and propulsion systems, as follows:
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c. | Underwater detection devices specially designed for military use and controls thereof; |
d. | Submarine and torpedo nets; |
e. | Not used; |
f. | Hull penetrators and connectors specially designed for military use that enable interaction with equipment external to a vessel; Note ML9.f. includes connectors for vessels which are of the single-conductor, multi-conductor, coaxial or waveguide type, and hull penetrators for vessels, both of which are capable of remaining impervious to leakage from without and of retaining required characteristics at marine depths exceeding 100 m; and fibre-optic connectors and optical hull penetrators specially designed for ‘laser’ beam transmission regardless of depth. It does not include ordinary propulsive shaft and hydro-dynamic control-rod hull penetrators. |
g. | Silent bearings, with gas or magnetic suspension, active signature or vibration suppression controls, and equipment containing those bearings, specially designed for military use. |
ML10
‘Aircraft’, ‘lighter-than-air vehicles’, unmanned airborne vehicles, aero-engines and ‘aircraft’ equipment, related equipment and components, specially designed or modified for military use, as follows:
NB: For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11, Note 7.
a. | Combat ‘aircraft’ and specially designed components therefor; |
b. | Other ‘aircraft’ and ‘lighter-than-air vehicles’ specially designed or modified for military use, including military reconnaissance, assault, military training, transporting and airdropping troops or military equipment, logistics support, and specially designed components therefor; |
c. | Unmanned airborne vehicles and related equipment, specially designed or modified for military use, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
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d. | Aero-engines specially designed or modified for military use, and specially designed components therefor; |
e. | Airborne equipment, including airborne refuelling equipment, specially designed for use with the ‘aircraft’ controlled by ML10.a. or ML10.b. or the aero-engines controlled by ML10.d., and specially designed components therefor; |
f. | Pressure refuellers, pressure refuelling equipment, equipment specially designed to facilitate operations in confined areas and ground equipment, developed specially for ‘aircraft’ controlled by ML10.a. or ML10.b., or for aero-engines controlled by ML10.d.; |
g. | Military crash helmets and protective masks and specially designed components therefor, pressurised breathing equipment and partial pressure suits for use in ‘aircraft’, anti-g suits, liquid oxygen converters used for ‘aircraft’ or missiles, and catapults and cartridge actuated devices for emergency escape of personnel from ‘aircraft’; |
h. | Parachutes and related equipment, used for combat personnel, cargo dropping or ‘aircraft’ deceleration, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
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i. | Automatic piloting systems for parachuted loads; equipment specially designed or modified for military use for controlled opening jumps at any height, including oxygen equipment. |
Note 1 ML10.b. does not control ‘aircraft’ or variants of those ‘aircraft’ specially designed for military use which:
a. | Are not configured for military use and are not fitted with equipment or attachments specially designed or modified for military use; and |
b. | Have been certified for civil use by the civil aviation authority in a Wassenaar Arrangement participating state. |
Note 2 ML10.d. does not control:
a. | Aero-engines designed or modified for military use which have been certified by civil aviation authorities in a Wassenaar Arrangement participating state for use in ‘civil aircraft’, or specially designed components therefor; |
b. | Reciprocating engines or specially designed components therefor, except those specially designed for unmanned airborne vehicles. |
Note 3 The control in ML10.b. and ML10.d. on specially designed components and related equipment for non-military ‘aircraft’ or aero-engines modified for military use applies only to those military components and to military related equipment required for the modification to military use.
ML11
Electronic equipment not controlled elsewhere on the eu common military list, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
a. | Electronic equipment specially designed for military use; Note ML11 includes:
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b. | Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) jamming equipment. |
ML12
High velocity kinetic energy weapon systems and related equipment, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
a. | Kinetic energy weapon systems specially designed for destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target; |
b. | Specially designed test and evaluation facilities and test models, including diagnostic instrumentation and targets, for dynamic testing of kinetic energy projectiles and systems. |
NB: For weapon systems using sub-calibre ammunition or employing solely chemical propulsion, and ammunition therefor, see ML1 to ML4.
Note 1 ML12 includes the following when specially designed for kinetic energy weapon systems:
a. | Launch propulsion systems capable of accelerating masses larger than 0,1 g to velocities in excess of 1,6 km/s, in single or rapid fire modes; |
b. | Prime power generation, electric armour, energy storage, thermal management, conditioning, switching or fuel-handling equipment; and electrical interfaces between power supply, gun and other turret electric drive functions; |
c. | Target acquisition, tracking, fire control or damage assessment systems; |
d. | Homing seeker, guidance or divert propulsion (lateral acceleration) systems for projectiles. |
Note 2 ML12 controls weapon systems using any of the following methods of propulsion:
a. | Electromagnetic; |
b. | Electrothermal; |
c. | Plasma; |
d. | Light gas; or |
e | Chemical (when used in combination with any of the above). |
ML13
Armoured or protective equipment and constructions and components, as follows:
a. | Armoured plate as follows:
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b. | Constructions of metallic or non-metallic materials or combinations thereof specially designed to provide ballistic protection for military systems, and specially designed components therefor; |
c. | Helmets manufactured according to military standards or specifications, or comparable national standards, and specially designed components therefor, i.e. helmet shell, liner and comfort pads; |
d. | Body armour and protective garments manufactured according to military standards or specifications, or equivalent, and specially designed components therefor. |
Note 1 ML13.b. includes materials specially designed to form explosive reactive armour or to construct military shelters.
Note 2 ML13.c. does not control conventional steel helmets, neither modified or designed to accept, nor equipped with any type of accessory device.
Note 3 ML13.c. and d. do not control helmets, body armour or protective garments when accompanying their user for the user's own personal protection.
Note 4 The only helmets specially designed for bomb disposal personnel that are controlled by ML13. are those specially designed for military use.
NB 1: See also entry 1A005 on the EU Dual-Use List.
NB 2: For ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ used in the manufacture of body armour and helmets, see entry 1C010 on the EU Dual-Use List.
ML14
Specialised equipment for military training or for simulating military scenarios, simulators specially designed for training in the use of any firearm or weapon controlled by ML1 or ML2, and specially designed components and accessories therefor.
Technical Note
The term ‘specialised equipment for military training’ includes military types of attack trainers, operational flight trainers, radar target trainers, radar target generators, gunnery training devices, anti-submarine warfare trainers, flight simulators (including human-rated centrifuges for pilot/astronaut training), radar trainers, instrument flight trainers, navigation trainers, missile launch trainers, target equipment, drone ‘aircraft’, armament trainers, pilotless ‘aircraft’ trainers, mobile training units and training equipment for ground military operations.
Note 1 ML14 includes image generating and interactive environment systems for simulators when specially designed or modified for military use.
Note 2 ML14 does not control equipment specially designed for training in the use of hunting or sporting weapons.
ML15
Imaging or countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:
a. | Recorders and image processing equipment; |
b. | Cameras, photographic equipment and film processing equipment; |
c. | Image intensifier equipment; |
d. | Infrared or thermal imaging equipment; |
e. | Imaging radar sensor equipment; |
f. | Countermeasure or counter-countermeasure equipment for the equipment controlled by sub-items ML15.a. to ML15.e. Note ML15.f. includes equipment designed to degrade the operation or effectiveness of military imaging systems or to minimize such degrading effects. |
Note 1 The term ‘specially designed components’ includes the following when specially designed for military use:
a. | Infrared image converter tubes; |
b. | Image intensifier tubes (other than first generation); |
c. | Microchannel plates; |
d. | Low-light-level television camera tubes; |
e. | Detector arrays (including electronic interconnection or readout systems); |
f. | Pyroelectric television camera tubes; |
g. | Cooling systems for imaging systems; |
h. | Electrically triggered shutters of the photochromic or electro-optical type having a shutter speed of less than 100 μs, except in the case of shutters which are an essential part of a high-speed camera; |
i. | Fibre optic image inverters; |
j. | Compound semiconductor photocathodes |
Note 2 ML15 does not control ‘first generation image intensifier tubes’ or equipment specially designed to incorporate ‘first generation image intensifier tubes’.
NB: For the status of weapons sights incorporating ‘first generation image intensifier tubes’ see entries ML1., ML2. and ML5.a.
NB: See also entries 6A002.a.2. and 6A002.b. on the EU Dual-Use List.
ML16
Forgings, castings and other unfinished products the use of which in a controlled product is identifiable by material composition, geometry or function, and which are specially designed for any products controlled by ML1 TO ML4, ML6, ML9, ML10, ML12 OR ML19.
ML17
Miscellaneous equipment, materials and libraries, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
a. | Self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus, as follows:
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b. | Construction equipment specially designed for military use; |
c. | Fittings, coatings and treatments for signature suppression, specially designed for military use; |
d. | Field engineer equipment specially designed for use in a combat zone; |
e. | ‘Robots’, ‘robot’ controllers and ‘robot’‘end-effectors’, having any of the following characteristics:
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f. | Libraries (parametric technical databases) specially designed for military use with equipment controlled by the EU Common Military List; |
g. | Nuclear power generating equipment or propulsion equipment, including ‘nuclear reactors’, specially designed for military use and components therefor specially designed or modified for military use; |
h. | Equipment and material, coated or treated for signature suppression, specially designed for military use, other than those controlled elsewhere in the EU Common Military List; |
i. | Simulators specially designed for military ‘nuclear reactors’; |
j. | Mobile repair shops specially designed or modified to service military equipment; |
k. | Field generators specially designed or modified for military use; |
l. | Containers specially designed or modified for military use; |
m. | Ferries, other than those controlled elsewhere in the EU Common Military List, bridges and pontoons, specially designed for military use; |
n. | Test models specially designed for the ‘development’ of items controlled by ML4, ML6, ML9 or ML10; |
o. | Laser protection equipment (e.g. eye and sensor protection) specially designed for military use. |
Technical Note
1. | For the purpose of ML17, the term ‘library’ (parametric technical database) means a collection of technical information of a military nature, reference to which may enhance the performance of military equipment or systems. |
2. | For the purpose of ML17, ‘modified’ means any structural, electrical, mechanical, or other change that provides a non-military item with military capabilities equivalent to an item which is specially designed for military use. |
ML18
Equipment for the production of products controlled by the eu common military list, as follows:
a. | Specially designed or modified production equipment for the production of products controlled by the EU Common Military List, and specially designed components therefor; |
b. | Specially designed environmental test facilities and specially designed equipment therefor, for the certification, qualification or testing of products controlled by the EU Common Military List. |
Technical Note
For the purposes of ML18, the term ‘production’ includes design, examination, manufacture, testing and checking.
Note ML18.a. and ML18.b. include the following equipment:
a. | Continuous nitrators; |
b. | Centrifugal testing apparatus or equipment having any of the following characteristics:
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c. | Dehydration presses; |
d. | Screw extruders specially designed or modified for military explosive extrusion; |
e. | Cutting machines for the sizing of extruded propellants; |
f. | Sweetie barrels (tumblers) 1,85 m or more in diameter and having over 227 kg product capacity; |
g. | Continuous mixers for solid propellants; |
h. | Fluid energy mills for grinding or milling the ingredients of military explosives; |
i. | Equipment to achieve both sphericity and uniform particle size in metal powder listed in ML8.c.8.; |
j. | Convection current converters for the conversion of materials listed in ML8.c.3. |
ML19
Directed energy weapon systems (dew), related or countermeasure equipment and test models, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
a. | ‘Laser’ systems specially designed for destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target; |
b. | Particle beam systems capable of destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target; |
c. | High power radio-frequency (RF) systems capable of destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target; |
d. | Equipment specially designed for the detection or identification of, or defence against, systems controlled by ML19.a. to ML19.c.; |
e. | Physical test models for the systems, equipment and components controlled by this Item. |
f. | Continuous wave or pulsed ‘laser’ systems specially designed to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, i.e. to the naked eye or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices. |
Note 1 Directed energy weapon systems controlled by ML19 include systems whose capability is derived from the controlled application of:
a. | ‘Lasers’ of sufficient continuous wave or pulsed power to effect destruction similar to the manner of conventional ammunition; |
b. | Particle accelerators which project a charged or neutral particle beam with destructive power; |
c. | High pulsed power or high average power radio frequency beam transmitters which produce fields sufficiently intense to disable electronic circuitry at a distant target. |
Note 2 ML19 includes the following when specially designed for directed energy weapon systems:
a. | Prime power generation, energy storage, switching, power conditioning or fuel-handling equipment; |
b. | Target acquisition or tracking systems; |
c. | Systems capable of assessing target damage, destruction or mission-abort; |
d. | Beam-handling, propagation or pointing equipment; |
e. | Equipment with rapid beam slew capability for rapid multiple target operations; |
f. | Adaptive optics and phase conjugators; |
g. | Current injectors for negative hydrogen ion beams; |
h. | ‘Space qualified’ accelerator components; |
i. | Negative ion beam funnelling equipment; |
j. | Equipment for controlling and slewing a high energy ion beam; |
k. | ‘Space qualified’ foils for neutralising negative hydrogen isotope beams. |
ML20
Cryogenic and ‘superconductive’ equipment, as follows, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:
a. | Equipment specially designed or configured to be installed in a vehicle for military ground, marine, airborne or space applications, capable of operating while in motion and of producing or maintaining temperatures below 103 K (– 170 °C); Note ML20.a. includes mobile systems incorporating or employing accessories or components manufactured from non-metallic or non electrical conductive materials, such as plastics or epoxy-impregnated materials. |
b. | ‘Superconductive’ electrical equipment (rotating machinery and transformers) specially designed or configured to be installed in a vehicle for military ground, marine, airborne or space applications, capable of operating while in motion. Note ML20.b. does not control direct current hybrid homopolar generators that have single-pole normal metal armatures which rotate in a magnetic field produced by superconducting windings, provided those windings are the only superconducting component in the generator. |
ML21
‘Software’, as follows:
a. | ‘Software’ specially designed or modified for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of equipment or materials controlled by the EU Common Military List; |
b. | Specific ‘software’, as follows:
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ML22
‘Technology’ as follows:
a. | ‘Technology’, other than specified in ML22.b., which is ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of items controlled in the Common Military List of The European Union. |
b. | ‘Technology’ as follows:
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Note 1 ‘Technology’‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of items controlled in the EU Common Military List remains under control even when applicable to any uncontrolled item.
Note 2 ML22 does not control ‘technology’ as follows:
a. | Which is the minimum necessary for the installation, operation, maintenance (checking) and repair of those items which are not controlled or whose export has been authorised; |
b. | Which is ‘in the public domain’, ‘basic scientific research’ or the minimum necessary information for patent applications; |
c. | For magnetic induction for continuous propulsion of civil transport devices. |