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Commission Directive 2010/80/EU of 22 November 2010 amending Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the list of defence-related products (Text with EEA relevance)

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Article 1.The Annex to Directive 2009/43/EC is replaced by the text...

  3. Article 2.Transposition

  4. Article 3.This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day...

  5. Article 4.This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

  6. Signature

    1. ANNEX

      1. LIST OF DEFENCE-RELATED PRODUCTS

        1. Note 1: Terms in ‘quotations’ are defined terms. Refer to ‘Definitions of...

        2. Note 2: In some instances chemicals are listed by name and CAS...

        3. Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of less than 20 mm, other...

        4. Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of 20 mm or more,...

        5. Ammunition and fuse setting devices, as follows, and specially designed...

        6. Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and...

          1. N.B.1: For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11.

          2. N.B.2: For Aircraft Missile Protection Systems (AMPS), see ML4.c.

        7. Fire control, and related alerting and warning equipment, and related...

        8. Ground vehicles and components, as follows:

          1. N.B. For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11.

          2. N.B. See also ML13.a

          3. Note 1: ML6.a. includes:

          4. Note 2: Modification of a ground vehicle for military use specified by...

          5. Note 3: ML6 does not apply to civil automobiles, or trucks designed...

        9. Chemical or biological toxic agents, ‘riot control agents’, radioactive materials,...

          1. Note 1: ML7.b. and ML7.d. do not apply to the following:

          2. Note 2: The cultures of cells and biological systems specified by ML7.h....

        10. ‘Energetic materials’, and related substances, as follows:

          1. N.B.1. See also 1C011 on the EU Dual-Use List.

          2. N.B.2. For charges and devices, see ML4 and 1A008 on the...

          3. Technical Notes

            1. 1. For the purposes of ML8, mixture refers to a composition...

            2. 2. Any substance listed in the ML8 sub-items is subject to...

          4. Note 5: Not used since 2009

          5. Note 6: ML8 does not apply to the following substances unless they...

        11. Vessels of war (surface or underwater), special naval equipment, accessories,...

          1. N.B. For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11.

        12. ‘Aircraft’, ‘lighter-than-air vehicles’, unmanned airborne vehicles, aero-engines and ‘aircraft’ equipment,...

          1. N.B. For guidance and navigation equipment, see ML11.

          2. Note 1: ML10.b. does not apply to ‘aircraft’ or variants of those...

          3. Note 2: ML10.d. does not apply to:

          4. Note 3: ML10.b. and ML10.d. on specially designed components and related equipment...

        13. Electronic equipment, not specified elsewhere on the EU Common Military...

        14. High velocity kinetic energy weapon systems and related equipment, as...

          1. N.B. For weapon systems using sub-calibre ammunition or employing solely chemical...

          2. Note 1: ML12 includes the following when specially designed for kinetic energy...

          3. Note 2: ML12 applies to weapon systems using any of the following...

        15. Armoured or protective equipment, constructions and components, as follows:

          1. Note 1: ML13.b. includes materials specially designed to form explosive reactive armour...

          2. Note 2: ML13.c. does not apply to conventional steel helmets, neither modified...

          3. Note 3: ML13.c. and d. do not apply to helmets, body armour...

          4. Note 4: The only helmets specially designed for bomb disposal personnel that...

          5. N.B. 1: See also entry 1A005 on the EU Dual-Use List.

          6. N.B. 2: For ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ used in the manufacture of...

        16. ‘Specialised equipment for military training’ or for simulating military scenarios,...

          1. Technical Note

          2. Note 1: ML14 includes image generating and interactive environment systems for simulators,...

          3. Note 2: ML14 does not apply to equipment specially designed for training...

        17. Imaging or countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military...

        18. Forgings, castings and other unfinished products the use of which...

        19. Miscellaneous equipment, materials and ‘libraries’, as follows, and specially designed...

          1. Technical Notes

            1. 1. For the purpose of ML17, the term ‘library’ (parametric technical...

            2. 2. For the purpose of ML17, ‘modified’ means any structural, electrical,...

        20. Production equipment and components, as follows:

          1. Technical Note

          2. Note: ML18.a. and ML18.b. include the following equipment:

        21. Directed energy weapon systems (DEW), related or countermeasure equipment and...

          1. Note 1: Directed energy weapon systems specified by ML19 include systems whose...

          2. Note 2: ML19 includes the following when specially designed for directed energy...

        22. Cryogenic and ‘superconductive’ equipment, as follows, and specially designed components...

        23. ‘Software’, as follows:

        24. ‘Technology’ as follows:

          1. Note 1: ‘Technology’‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of items specified...

          2. Note 2: ML22 does not apply to:

      2. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THIS LIST

        1. Note 1: Definitions apply throughout the List. The references are purely advisory...

        2. Note 2: Words and terms contained in this List of Definitions only...

        3. ML7 ‘Adapted for use in war’

        4. ML8 ‘Additives’

        5. ML8, ML9 and ML10 ‘Aircraft’

        6. ML11 ‘Automated Command and Control Systems’

        7. ML22 ‘Basic scientific research’

        8. ML7, 22 ‘Biocatalysts’

          1. Technical Note

        9. ML7, 22 ‘Biopolymers’

          1. Technical Notes

            1. 1. ‘Anti-idiotypic antibodies’ means antibodies which bind to the specific antigen...

            2. 2. ‘Monoclonal antibodies’ means proteins which bind to one antigenic site...

            3. 3. ‘Polyclonal antibodies’ means a mixture of proteins which bind to...

            4. 4. ‘Receptors’ means biological macromolecular structures capable of binding ligands, the...

        10. ML10 ‘Civil aircraft’

        11. ML21, 22 ‘Development’

        12. ML17 ‘End-effectors’

          1. Technical Note

        13. ML4, 8 ‘Energetic materials’

        14. ML8, 18 ‘Explosives’

        15. ML7 ‘Expression Vectors’

        16. ML 17 ‘Fuel cell’

        17. ML13 ‘Fibrous or filamentary materials’

        18. ML15 ‘First generation image intensifier tubes’

        19. ML22 ‘In the public domain’

          1. Note: Copyright restrictions do not remove ‘technology’ or ‘software’ from being...

        20. ML5, 19 ‘Laser’

        21. ML10 ‘Lighter-than-air vehicles’

        22. ML17 ‘Nuclear reactor’

        23. ML8 ‘Precursors’

        24. ML21, 22 ‘Production’

        25. ML8 ‘Propellants’

        26. ML4, 8 ‘Pyrotechnic(s)’

        27. ML22 ‘Required’

        28. ML7 ‘Riot control agents’

        29. ML17 ‘Robot’

          1. Note: The above definition does not include the following devices:

        30. ML21 ‘Software’

        31. ML19 ‘Space-qualified’

        32. ML18, 20 ‘Superconductive’

          1. Technical Note

        33. ML22 ‘Technology’

          1. Technical Notes

            1. 1. ‘Technical data’ may take forms such as blueprints, plans, diagrams,...

            2. 2. ‘Technical assistance’ may take forms such as instruction, skills, training,...

        34. ML21, 22 ‘Use’

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