The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment) Order 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994.

Group 1 in Part I of Schedule 1 (bovine offal) is revoked, and consequential amendments are made. Controls on the export of bovine offal are now wholly contained in other legislation. (An erroneous cross-reference of no legal effect in article 3B(1A)(d) of the 1994 Order is also revoked.) (Article 2)

The benefit of licences granted to particular persons is limited to the persons identified as exporters under the Community Customs Code (Council Regulation (EEC) 2913/92, O.J. L302, 19.10.92, p.1) and its Implementing Regulation (Commission Regulation (EEC) 2454/93, O.J. L253, 11.10.93, p.1), so far as those Regulations are applicable. (Article 3)

The control on equipment and devices specially designed for explosive ordnance disposal in Group 2 in Part I of Schedule 1 is replaced by a control on equipment and devices specially designed for disposal of improvised explosive devices; and containers designed for holding improvised explosive devices or objects suspected of being such devices are excluded from that control. (Article 4)

In Part III of Schedule 1 (the “military list”), weapons sights are added to entries ML1 and ML2, with consequential amendments to entries PL5002 and ML15; and definitions in the military list are amended as follows:

• the definition of “end-effectors” is amended so as to be comprehensive rather than selective;

• the definition of “enzymes” is revoked, with consequential amendments to the definitions of “biocatalyst” and “biopolymer”;

• a definition is inserted of “in the public domain”. (Article 5)