ANNEX IV(List referred to in Article 22(1) of this Regulation)

The entries do not always cover the complete description of the item and the related notes in Annex I(1). Only Annex I provides for the complete description of the items.

The mention of an item in this Annex does not affect the application of the provisions concerning mass-market products in Annex I.

PART I(possibility of National General Authorisation for intra-Community trade)

Items of stealth technology

1C001

Materials specially designed for use as absorbers of electromagnetic waves, or intrinsically conductive polymers.

N.B.: SEE ALSO 1C101

1C101

Materials or devices for reduced observables such as radar reflectivity, ultraviolet/infrared signatures and acoustic signatures; other than those specified in 1C001, usable in ’missiles’, "missile" subsystems or unmanned aerial vehicles specified in 9A012.

Note: 1C101 does not control materials if such goods are formulated solely for civil applications.

Items of the Community strategic control

1A007

Equipment and devices, specially designed to initiate charges and devices containing energetic materials, by electrical means, as follows:

N.B.: SEE ALSO MILITARY GOODS CONTROLS, 3A229 AND 3A232.

a.

Explosive detonator firing sets designed to drive multiple controlled detonators specified in 1A007.b. below ;

b.

Electrically driven explosive detonators as follows:

1.

Exploding bridge (EB);

2.

Exploding bridge wire (EBW);

3.

Slapper;

4.

Exploding foil initiators (EFI).

Note: 1A007.b. does not control detonators using only primary explosives, such as lead azide.

1C239

High explosives, other than those specified in the military goods controls, or substances or mixtures containing more than 2 % thereof, with a crystal density greater than 1,8 g/cm3 and having a detonation velocity greater than 8 000 m/s.

1E201

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of goods specified in 1C239.

3A229

High-current pulse generators, as follows …

N.B.: SEE ALSO MILITARY GOODS CONTROLS

3A232

Multipoint initiation systems, other than those specified in 1A007 above , as follows …

N.B.: SEE ALSO MILITARY GOODS CONTROLS

3E201

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment specified in 3A228.a., 3A228.b. or 3A231.

6A001

Acoustics, limited to the following:

6A001.a.1.b.

Object detection or location systems having any of the following:

1.

A transmitting frequency below 5 kHz ;

6.

Designed to withstand …;

6A001.a.2.a.2.

Hydrophones … Incorporating …

6A001.a.2.a.3.

Hydrophones … Having any …

6A001.a.2.a.6.

Hydrophones … Designed for …

6A001.a.2.b.

Towed acoustic hydrophone arrays …

6A001.a.2.c.

Processing equipment, specially designed for real time application with towed acoustic hydrophone arrays, having "user-accessible programmability" and time or frequency domain processing and correlation, including spectral analysis, digital filtering and beamforming using Fast Fourier or other transforms or processes;

6A001.a.2.e.

Bottom or bay cable systems having any of the following:

1.

Incorporating hydrophones …, or

2.

Incorporating multiplexed hydrophone group signal modules …;

6A001.a.2.f.

Processing equipment, specially designed for real time application with bottom or bay cable systems, having "user-accessible programmability" and time or frequency domain processing and correlation, including spectral analysis, digital filtering and beamforming using Fast Fourier or other transforms or processes;

6D003.a.

"Software" for the "real time processing" of acoustic data;

8A002.o.3.

Noise reduction systems designed for use on vessels of 1 000 tonnes displacement or more, as follows:

b.

Active noise reduction or cancellation systems, or magnetic bearings, specially designed for power transmission systems, and incorporating electronic control systems capable of actively reducing equipment vibration by the generation of anti-noise or anti-vibration signals directly to the source;

8E002.a.

"Technology" for the "development", "production", repair, overhaul or refurbishing (re-machining) of propellers specially designed for underwater noise reduction.

Items of the Community strategic control — Cryptography — Category 5 Part 2

5A002.a.2.

Equipment designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions.

5D002.c.1

Only software having the characteristics, or performing or simulating the functions, of equipment specified in 5A002.a.2.

5E002

Only "technology" for the "development", "production" or "use" of the goods specified in 5A002.a.2. or 5D002.c.1. above.

Items of the MTCR technology

7A117

"Guidance sets", usable in "missiles" capable of achieving system accuracy of 3,33 % or less of the range (e.g., a "CEP" of 10 km or less at a range of 300 km), except " guidance sets " designed for missiles with a range under 300 km or manned aircraft .

7B001

Test, calibration or alignment equipment specially designed for equipment specified in 7A117 above .

Note: 7B001 does not control test, calibration or alignment equipment for Maintenance Level I or Maintenance Level II.

7B003

Equipment specially designed for the "production" of equipment specified in 7A117 above .

7B103

"Production facilities" specially designed for equipment specified in 7A117 above .

7D101

"Software" specially designed for the "use" of equipment specified in 7B003 or 7B103 above .

7E001

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development" of equipment or "software" specified in 7A117, 7B003, 7B103 or 7D101 above .

7E002

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "production" of equipment specified in 7A117, 7B003 and 7B103 above .

7E101

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment specified in 7A117, 7B003, 7B103 and 7D101 above .

9A004

Space launch vehicles capable of delivering at least a 500 kg payload to a range of at least 300 km .

N.B.: SEE ALSO 9A104.

Note 1: 9A004 does not control payloads.

9A005

Liquid rocket propulsion systems containing any of the systems or components specified in 9A006 usable for space launch vehicles specified in 9A004 above or sounding rockets specified in 9A104 below .

N.B.: SEE ALSO 9A105 and 9A119.

9A007.a.

Solid rocket propulsion systems, usable for space launch vehicles specified in 9A004 above or sounding rockets specified in 9A104 below , with any of the following:

N.B.: SEE ALSO 9A119.

a.

Total impulse capacity exceeding 1,1 MNs;

9A008.d.

Components, as follows, specially designed for solid rocket propulsion systems:

N.B.: SEE ALSO 9A108.c.

d.

Movable nozzle or secondary fluid injection thrust vector control systems, usable for space launch vehicles specified in 9A004 above or sounding rockets specified in 9A104 below , capable of any of the following:

1.

Omni-axial movement exceeding ±5°;

2.

Angular vector rotations of 20°/s or more; or

3.

Angular vector accelerations of 40°/s2 or more.

9A104

Sounding rockets, capable of delivering at least a 500 kg payload to a range of at least 300 km.

N.B.: SEE ALSO 9A004.

9A105.a.

Liquid propellant rocket engines, as follows:

N.B.: SEE ALSO 9A119.

a.

Liquid propellant rocket engines usable in "missiles", other than those specified in 9A005, having a total impulse capacity equal to or greater than 1,1 MNs; except liquid propellant apogee engines designed or modified for satellite applications and having all of the following :

1.

nozzle throat diameter of 20 mm or less; and

2.

combustion chamber pressure of 15 bar or less.

9A106.c.

Systems or components, other than those specified in 9A006, usable in "missiles", as follows, specially designed for liquid rocket propulsion systems:

c.

Thrust vector control sub-systems, except those designed for rocket systems that are not capable of delivering at least a 500 kg payload to a range of at least 300 km .

Components, other than those specified in 9A008, usable in "missiles" as follows, specially designed for solid rocket propulsion systems:

Exemptions:

Annex IV does not control the following items of the MTCR technology:

1.

that are transferred on the basis of orders pursuant to a contractual relationship placed by the European Space Agency (ESA) or that are transferred by ESA to accomplish its official tasks;

2.

that are transferred on the basis of orders pursuant to a contractual relationship placed by a Member State's national space organisation or that are transferred by it to accomplish its official tasks;

3.

that are transferred on the basis of orders pursuant to a contractual relationship placed in connection with a Community space launch development and production programme signed by two or more European governments;

4.

that are transferred to a State-controlled space launching site in the territory of a Member State, unless that Member State controls such transfers within the terms of this Regulation.

PART II(no National General Authorisation for intra-Community trade)

Items of the CWC (Chemical Weapons Convention)

1C351.d.4.

Ricin

1C351.d.5.

Saxitoxin

Items of the NSG technology

All Category 0 of Annex I is included in Annex IV, subject to the following:

  • 0C001: this item is not included in Annex IV.

  • 0C002: this item is not included in Annex IV, with the exception of special fissile materials as follows:

    (a)

    separated plutonium;

    (b)

    "uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233" to more than 20 %.

  • 0D001 (software) is included in Annex IV except insofar as it relates to 0C001 or to those items of 0C002 that are excluded from Annex IV.

  • 0E001 (technology) is included in Annex IV except insofar as these related to 0C001 or to those items of 0C002 that are excluded from Annex IV.

N.B.: For 0C003 and 0C004, only if for use in a "nuclear reactor" (within 0A001.a.).

1B226

Electromagnetic isotope separators designed for, or equipped with, single or multiple ion sources capable of providing a total ion beam current of 50 mA or greater.

Note: 1B226 includes separators:

a.

Capable of enriching stable isotopes;

b.

With the ion sources and collectors both in the magnetic field and those configurations in which they are external to the field.

1C012

Materials as follows:

Lithium enriched in the lithium-6 (6Li) isotope to greater than its natural isotopic abundance, and products or devices containing enriched lithium, as follows: elemental lithium, alloys, compounds, mixtures containing lithium, manufactures thereof, waste or scrap of any of the foregoing.

Note: 1C233 does not control thermoluminescent dosimeters.

(1)

The differences in the wordings/scopes between Annex I and Annex IV are indicated with bold italic text.