Transcript Summary of EU Reg changes 2014 MTCR NSG

Summary of EU Regulation amendments
December 2014
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Changes being implemented in EU Regulation
• Official Journal expected to be published 30th December 2014
• Changes expected to become law 31st December 2014
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Comprehensive Change Note Summary for Council Regulation (EU)
No. 428/2009 available.
– http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/october/tradoc_152854.pdf
• Draft Annex available
– http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/3/2014/EN/3-2014-7567EN-F1-1-ANNEX-1.Pdf
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Notes & Definitions
A number of additions, deletions and amendments have been made to the
to the Notes and Definitions used in Annex I and you are advised to refer
to the Comprehensive Change Note and the draft Annex for full details.
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Category 0
• As a result of the NSG Fundamental Review there are a total of 54
amendments to the NSG Control Lists under Category 0 from the
thematic areas:
– Nuclear Reactor,
– Fuel Fabrication,
– Industrial Equipment,
– Miscellaneous,
– Reprocessing, and
– Weaponisation.
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Category 1
• 1A004 - Clarification for Face Masks, Filters and Powered Air Purifying
Respirators (PAPR) Masks and Filters.
• 1A005 – Body armoured revised. Any soft armour and hard plates
below NIJ III. Armour that doesn’t provide ballistic protection
decontrolled.
• 1B001 – Clarification to distinguish between Tape Laying and Tow
Placement machines.
• 1B201 – Amendment to Filament Winding Machine control text.
• 1B227 – Removal of Ammonia Synthesis Converters.
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Category 1 (cont…)
• 1B228 – Amendment to controls on Hydrogen-Cryogenic Distillation
with new Technical Note
• 1B233 – Amendment to controls on Lithium Isotope Separation
Systems including two new entries on Ion Exchange Systems
and Chemical Exchange
• 1B234 – Introduction on controls High Explosive Containment Vessels,
not controlled under the UK Military List.
• 1C001b – Decontrol for RF absorbing materials.
• 1C001c – Decontrol for polymeric materials in liquid form.
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Category 1 (cont…)
• 1C008 – Decontrols for some polymeric substances by raising glass
transition temperature thresholds.
• 1C111a2b – New control on metal powders of either boron or boron
alloys with a boron content of 85% or more by weight.
• 1C116 – Amendment to control on Maraging Steels, including two new
Technical Notes.
• 1C216 – Lowering of the control parameter for Maraging Steels.
• 1C229 – Amendment to controls on Bismuth.
• 1C241 – New control on Rhenium, including sub-paragraphs detailing
control.
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Category 1 (cont…)
• 1C351 – Control entries combined for Human and Animal Pathogens
and the list alphabetically re-ordered, with the addition of the following:
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Herpes
Hog Cholera
Rabies (clarified)
Clostridium Baratii, Botulinium Neurotoxin producing strains.
Coxiella
Francisella
E.Coli
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Category 1 (cont…)
• 1C354 – Addition of the following plant pathogens
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Peronsclerospora philippinensis (Peronsclerospora sacchan)
Sclerophthora ravssiae var. zeae
Synchutrium endobioticium
Tilletia indica
Thecaphora solani
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Category 2
• 2A225 – Amended wording to control on Crucibles.
• 2B001 – Decontrol for dental prostheses machines.
• 2B001b – 5 axis or more milling machines reviewed and split into 4
sub-items.
– Axis less than 1m
– Axis 1m to 2m
– Axis greater than 2m
– All parallel mechanism machines
Results in lower accuracy machines being decontrolled –
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2B001f – Components for deep-hole drilling machines deleted.
2B006b1 – Clarification for LVDTs
2B009 – Spin forming machines with two axis decontrolled.
2B206 – Amendment to control on CMM, with new Technical Note.
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Category 2 (cont…)
• 2B230 - Control on pressure transducers amended, including a local
definition; sub-paragraphs amended; sub-paragraph b.
renamed c.; new sub-paragraph b.; and New Technical Note
added.
• 2B232 – Amendment to control on High-velocity Gun System with new
Nota Bene
• 2B233 - New control for bellow-sealed compressors and vacuum
pumps, including 3 sub-paragraphs and a Nota Bene.
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Category 2 (cont…)
• 2B350g – Valves reviewed
– No change for complete valves with any of the listed materials in contact
with the medium.
– No change for Casings and Liners
– Valves containing controlled Casings or Liners, but not having all surfaces
with listed materials, only controlled if –
• Nominal size between 25.5mm (1”) and 101.6mm (4”)
• Closure element designed to be interchangeable
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2B352b – Addition of components for Fermenters.
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2B352h – New control for Spray Drying Equipment.
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Category 2 (cont…)
• 2D003 – New control for optics measurement and machine coding
software for operating optical polishing machines.
• 2D202 – New note for Machine Tool Software, decontrolling some
types of software.
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Category 3
• General Purpose Integrated Circuits
– 3A001a5 & 7 - ADC convertors & FPGAs parameters updated resulting in
a small number being decontrolled.
– 3A001a13 -
New control for Direct Digital Synthesiser.
• Microwave or Millimetre Wave components
– 3A001b2, 3, 4 & 11 - MMICs, Discrete Microwave Transistors, Solid State
Amplifiers, Frequency Synthesisers and Frequency
Synthesiser assembly controls clarified and more focussed,
resulting in some being decontrolled
• High Energy Devices
– 3A001e2 -
Secondary Cells updated with a small number decontrolled
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Category 3 (cont…)
• General Purpose Electronic Equipment
– 3A002a - Magnetic Tape Recorders deleted
– 3A002a7 - New control for oscilloscopes
– 3A002c4, 3A002d & 3A002e - Signal Analysers, Signal Generators
and Network Analysers updated and more focussed
with a number being decontrolled
• 3A225 – Control chapeau for frequency changers amended; control
parameters in sub-paragraphs amended, (including the
removal of harmonic distortion parameter); new Nota Bene
for software & technology; new decontrol Note for certain
constrained equipment; and new Technical Note 2.
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Category 3 (cont…)
• 3A229 – Return of control on Detonator Firing Sets and the addition of
control on Micro Firing Sets.
• 3A230 – Addition of Pulse Heads to control.
• 3A231 – Amendment to control on Neutron Pulse Generators, with two
new sub-paragraphs.
• 3A233 – Amendment to controls on Electron Bombardment Mass
Spectrometers, with two new sub-paragraphs;
• 3A234 – New control on Straplines, with a voltage rating greater than
2kV and an Induction of less than 20nH.
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Category 3 (cont…)
• Production equipment
– 3B001h - IC Wafer production masks updated with a small number
decontrolled.
• Materials
– 3C001 & 2 - IC Wafer and Resist materials updated with a small
number decontrolled.
• Technology
– 3E002 – 3E225 ‒
Decontrol for a small number of ICs development and
production technology.
New control on technology capable of releasing
constraints of Frequency Changers.
• Software
– 3D225 –
New control on software capable of releasing
constraints of Frequency Changers.
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Category 4
• Computers
– 4A003a - Fault tolerant computers deleted.
– 4A003b, 4D001b & 4E001bAdjusted Peak Performance raised for hardware, software and
technology related controls.
– 4A005, 4D004 & 4E001a –
New controls relating to intrusion software. Aimed at controlling
the items that generate, operate, deliver or communicate with
intrusion software and not intrusion software itself.
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Category 5 Part 1
• 5A001b3 - Decontrol for civil communications earth stations.
• 5A001f -
New controls for mobile communications interception
equipment.
• 5A001h -
New controls for CIED communications equipment.
• 5A001j -
New controls for Internet Protocol network communications
surveillance equipment.
• 5B001b5 - Equipment for common signal channelling deleted.
• 5E001d -
Controls for Technology relating to telecoms MMICs
updated and more focussed.
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Category 5 Part 2
• Clarifications throughout Category 5 Part 2.
• Cryptography Note updated to include hardware and software components.
• New Note to provide clarification to the Cryptography Note.
• New Note i decontrolling Personal Area Network equipment.
• New Note k decontrolling business local access equipment not decontrolled by
the Cryptography Note.
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Category 6 cont
• 6A001a1a2b – New control for shallow survey equipment.
• 6A001b –
Arrays added for object location/detection equipment.
• 6A001e -
Arrays added for swimmer and delivery vehicle
detection equipment.
• 6A001a2a –
New piezoelectric materials included for hydrophone
sensor elements.
• 6A001a2b –
New control for arrays having accelerometer based
sensors.
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Category 6 (cont…)
• 6A001a2e – New control for bottom or bay cable arrays having
Accelerometer Based Sensors.
• 6A001a2g – New control for Accelerometer Based Hydro-acoustic
Sensors.
• 6A005a6 – Decontrols for ‘industrial’ lasers using new parameters
Beam Parameter Product and Brightness.
• 6A005b4, 6 – New controls for Femtosecond Lasers.
• A consequence of this addition renumbers other laser entries.
• 6A008k, L – Clarification for marine radars with a limited decontrol.
• 6A107 –
Amendment on the controls on Gravity Meters
• 6A203 –
Rewrite of control text with new Nota Benes, Note and
Technical Note
• 6A205 –
New control on Carbon Monoxide Lasers, includes four
new sub-paragraphs.
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Category 6 (cont…)
• 6A225 – Amendment to Note on Velocity Interferometers.
• 6A226 – Control on Shock Pressure (Manganin) Gauges amended.
• 6C004 – New optical materials.
• 6D203 – New control on Camera Software to enhance or release the
performance of cameras or imaging devices to meet the
characteristics of 6A203.a. to 6A203.c
• 6E203 – New control on Camera Technology to enhance or release
the performance of cameras or imaging devices to meet the
characteristics of 6A203.a. to 6A203.c
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Category 7
• 7A001a2 – Decontrol for accelerometers exceeding 15g. Brings the
control in line with MTCR parameters.
• 7A003 –
Major revision for Inertial Measurement
Equipment/Systems. The aim is to clarify the controls
and base them on equipment/systems available that have
multiple outputs, addressing their greater flexibility.
• 7A004 –
Gyro-astro compasses replaced by star trackers and
updated.
• 7D003 –
Source code deleted for a variety of avionic related items.
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Category 7 cont
• 7D004 –
New control for source code incorporating development
technology for avionics previously listed in 7D003. Results
in a more focussed control.
• 7D005 –
New software control for decrypting GNSS data.
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Category 8
• 8A002 – Fibre optic connectors for marine applications deleted.
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Category 9
• 9A001 – Gas Turbines incorporated in to APUs now treated in the
same manner as propulsion gas turbines.
• 9A012 – Clarification with the addition of Unmanned Airships.
• 9A101 – New local definition added to control on Turbojet and
Turbofan Engines, including reference to using ICAO
standard atmosphere.
• 9A102 – Amended to make reference to ICAO standard atmosphere.
• 9A105 – Amendment to control on Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines.
• 9A106 – Amendment to control on Propellant Control Systems
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Category 9 (cont…)
• 9A117 – New Nota Bene referencing new entry 9A121.
• 9A121 – New control for Missile/Rocket Connectors, with Technical
Note.
• 9B105 – Control on Wind Tunnels expanded to include Shock
Tunnels, amendment to Technical Notes and new Note.
• 9B106 – Amendment to control on Test Chambers incorporating
vibration test equipment (Shaker Units).
• 9E003a2 – Technology for combustors clarified with a small level of
decontrol.
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Category 9 (cont…)
• 9E003a5 – Technology for turbine blades, small level of decontrol.
• 9E003c –
Technology for manufacturing cooling holes clarified.
• 9E101 –
Control on technology amended to make reference 9A120
and 9A121.
• 9E102 –
Control on technology amended to make reference 9A120
and 9A121.