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Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items (Recast)
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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:
separated plutonium;
‘uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233’ to more than 20 %.
0C003 only if for use in a ‘nuclear reactor’ (within 0A001.a.);
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.
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. |
1B231 | Tritium facilities or plants, and equipment therefor, as follows: a. Facilities or plants for the production, recovery, extraction, concentration, or handling of tritium; b. Equipment for tritium facilities or plants, as follows: 1. Hydrogen or helium refrigeration units capable of cooling to 23 K (– 250 °C) or less, with heat removal capacity greater than 150 W; 2. Hydrogen isotope storage or hydrogen isotope purification systems using metal hydrides as the storage or purification medium. |
1B233 | Lithium isotope separation facilities or plants, and equipment therefor, as follows: a. Facilities or plants for the separation of lithium isotopes; b. Equipment for the separation of lithium isotopes, as follows: 1. Packed liquid-liquid exchange columns specially designed for lithium amalgams; 2. Mercury or lithium amalgam pumps; 3. Lithium amalgam electrolysis cells; 4. Evaporators for concentrated lithium hydroxide solution. |
1C012 | Materials as follows: Technical Note:These materials are typically used for nuclear heat sources. b. ‘Previously separated’ neptunium-237 in any form. Note: 1C012.b. does not control shipments with a neptunium-237 content of 1 g or less. |
1C233 | Lithium enriched in the lithium-6 ( 6 Li) 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.Technical Note:The natural isotopic abundance of lithium-6 is approximately 6,5 weight per cent (7,5 atom per cent). |
1C235 | Tritium, tritium compounds, mixtures containing tritium in which the ratio of tritium to hydrogen atoms exceeds 1 part in 1 000, and products or devices containing any of the foregoing. Note: 1C235 does not control a product or device containing less than 1,48 × 10 3 GBq (40 Ci) of tritium. |
1E001 | ‘ Technology ’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘ development ’ or ‘ production ’ of equipment or materials specified in 1C012.b. |
1E201 | ‘ Technology ’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘ use ’ of goods specified in 1B226, 1B231, 1B233, 1C233 or 1C235. |
3A228 | Switching devices, as follows: a. Cold-cathode tubes, whether gas filled or not, operating similarly to a spark gap, having all of the following characteristics: 1. Containing three or more electrodes; 2. Anode peak voltage rating of 2,5 kV or more; 3. Anode peak current rating of 100 A or more; and 4. Anode delay time of 10 μs or less; Note: [F23A228.a.] includes gas krytron tubes and vacuum sprytron tubes.b. Triggered spark-gaps having both of the following characteristics: 1. An anode delay time of 15 μs or less; and 2. Rated for a peak current of 500 A or more; |
3A231 | Neutron generator systems, including tubes, having both of the following characteristics: a. Designed for operation without an external vacuum system; and b. Utilizing electrostatic acceleration to induce a tritium-deuterium nuclear reaction. |
3E201 | ‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘use’ of equipment specified in 3A228 or 3A231 above . |
6A203 | Cameras and components, other than those specified in 6A003, as follows: a. Mechanical rotating mirror streak cameras, as follows, and specially designed components therefor: 1. Streak cameras with writing speeds greater than 0,5 mm per microsecond; b. Mechanical rotating mirror framing cameras, as follows, and specially designed components therefor: 1. Framing cameras with recording rates greater than 225 000 frames per second; Note: In 6A203.a. components of such cameras include their synchronising electronics units and rotor assemblies consisting of turbines, mirrors and bearings. |
6A225 | Velocity interferometers for measuring velocities exceeding 1 km/s during time intervals of less than 10 microseconds. Note: 6A225 includes velocity interferometers such as VISARs (Velocity interferometer systems for any reflector) and DLIs (Doppler laser interferometers). |
6A226 | Pressure sensors, as follows: a. Shock pressure gauges capable of measuring pressures greater than 10 GPa, including gauges made with manganin, ytterbium, and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)/polyvinyl difluoride (PVF 2 ); b. Quartz pressure transducers for pressures greater than 10 GPa.] |
Textual Amendments
F2Word in Annex 4 Pt. 2 substituted (20.4.2022) by The Trade in Dual-Use Items (Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/410), regs. 1, 2(3)
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