Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009Show full title

[4A] [F1 Systems, Equipment and Components U.K.

[4A001] Electronic computers and related equipment, having any of the following and "electronic assemblies" and specially designed components therefor:

NB: SEE ALSO 4A101. U.K.

a.

Specially designed to have any of the following:

1.

Rated for operation at an ambient temperature below 228 K (– 45 °C) or above 358 K (85 °C); or

Note: 4A001.a.1. does not control computers specially designed for civil automobile, railway train or "civil aircraft" applications. U.K.

2.

Radiation hardened to exceed any of the following specifications:

a.	Total Dose	5 × 103 Gy (silicon);
b.	Dose Rate Upset	5 × 106 Gy (silicon)/s; or
c.	Single Event Upset	1 × 10–8 Error/bit/day;

Note: 4A001.a.2. does not control computers specially designed for "civil aircraft" applications. U.K.

b.

Not used.

[4A003] "Digital computers", "electronic assemblies", and related equipment therefor, as follows and specially designed components therefor:

Note 1: 4A003 includes the following: U.K.

• ‘Vector processors’;

• Array processors;

• Digital signal processors;

• Logic processors;

• Equipment designed for "image enhancement".

Note 2: The control status of the "digital computers" and related equipment described in 4A003 is determined by the control status of other equipment or systems provided: U.K.

a.

The "digital computers" or related equipment are essential for the operation of the other equipment or systems;

b.

The "digital computers" or related equipment are not a "principal element" of the other equipment or systems; and

NB: 1: The control status of "signal processing" or "image enhancement" equipment specially designed for other equipment with functions limited to those required for the other equipment is determined by the control status of the other equipment even if it exceeds the "principal element" criterion. U.K.

NB: 2: For the control status of "digital computers" or related equipment for telecommunications equipment, see Category 5, Part 1 (Telecommunications). U.K.

c.

The "technology" for the "digital computers" and related equipment is determined by 4E.

a.

Not used;

b.

"Digital computers" having an "Adjusted Peak Performance" ("APP") exceeding 29 Weighted TeraFLOPS (WT);

c.

"Electronic assemblies" specially designed or modified for enhancing performance by aggregation of processors so that the "APP" of the aggregation exceeds the limit specified in 4A003.b.;

Note 1: 4A003.c. controls only "electronic assemblies" and programmable interconnections not exceeding the limit specified in 4A003.b. when shipped as unintegrated "electronic assemblies". U.K.

Note 2: 4A003.c. does not control "electronic assemblies" specially designed for a product or family of products whose maximum configuration does not exceed the limit specified in 4A003.b. U.K.

d.

Not used;

e.

Not used;

f.

Not used;

g.

Equipment specially designed for aggregating the performance of "digital computers" by providing external interconnections which allows communications at unidirectional data rates exceeding 2,0 Gbyte/s per link.

Note: 4A003.g. does not control internal interconnection equipment (e.g. backplanes, buses), passive interconnection equipment, "network access controllers" or "communications channel controllers". U.K.

[4A004] Computers as follows and specially designed related equipment, "electronic assemblies" and components therefor:

a.

‘Systolic array computers’;

b.

‘Neural computers’;

c.

‘Optical computers’.

Technical Notes: U.K.

1. ‘Systolic array computers’ are computers where the flow and modification of the data is dynamically controllable at the logic gate level by the user. U.K.

2. ‘Neural computers’ are computational devices designed or modified to mimic the behaviour of a neuron or a collection of neurons, i.e., computational devices which are distinguished by their hardware capability to modulate the weights and numbers of the interconnections of a multiplicity of computational components based on previous data. U.K.

3. ‘Optical computers’ are computers designed or modified to use light to represent data and whose computational logic elements are based on directly coupled optical devices. U.K.

[4A005] Systems, equipment, and components therefor, specially designed or modified for the generation, command and control, or delivery of "intrusion software".

[4A101] Analogue computers, "digital computers" or digital differential analysers, other than those specified in 4A001.a.1., which are ruggedized and designed or modified for use in space launch vehicles specified in 9A004 or sounding rockets specified in 9A104.

[4A102] Hybrid computers specially designed for modelling, simulation or design integration of space launch vehicles specified in 9A004 or sounding rockets specified in 9A104.

Note: This control only applies when the equipment is supplied with "software" specified in 7D103 or 9D103.] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1749 of 7 October 2020 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items.