The Dual-Use Items (Export Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 504

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Dual-Use Items (Export Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

4th March 2003

Laid before Parliament

6th March 2003

Coming into force

28th March 2003

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the control of the export of goods and measures relating to trade in dual use items, including the transmission of software and technology in intangible form, in the exercise of the powers conferred on her by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Dual-Use Items (Export Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 28th March 2003.

(2) In this Regulation the “principal Regulations” are the Dual-Use Items (Export Control) Regulations 2000(3).

2.  Schedule 1A to the principal Regulations is amended by adding, after “Council Regulation (EC) No. 880/2002 (O.J. L139, 29.5.2002, p7)”,

• “Council Regulation (EC) No 149/2003 (O.J. L30, 5.02.2003, p1).”

Nigel Griffiths,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Business,

Department of Trade and Industry

4th March 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Dual-Use Items (Export Control) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2620) were made in implementation of and pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1334/2000 setting up a community regime for the control of exports of dual-use items and technology. (O.J. L 159, 30.06.00, p.1.)

These Regulations add a new EC Council Regulation to the list of applicable Regulations applicable to export control changes, which reflects changes adopted by the Wassenaar Arrangement, the Australia Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime during 2001 and 2002.

(1)

S.I. 1983/1706 and 2000/1813.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 2000/2620, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2002/50, 2002/2033.