The Dual-Use and Related Goods (Export Control) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make a number of amendments to Schedule 2 to the Dual-Use and Related Goods (Export Control) Regulations 1996 pursuant to Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 3381/94 on the control of exports of dual-use goods (O.J. No. L367, 31.12.94, p. 1):

• regulation 2 revokes superfluous definitions;

• regulation 3 introduces new controls on export of portable self-protection devices which administer an incapacitating substance;

• regulation 4 introduces new controls on export of certain ferrocene derivatives;

• regulation 5 links all controls on technology in Schedule 2 to the “General Technology Note” in Annex I to Council Decision 94/942/CFSP (O.J. No. L367, 31.12.94, p. 1, as amended by Council Decision 96/613/CFSP (O.J. No. L278, 30.10.96, p. 1)) so far as not already linked;

• regulation 6 removes controls on apparatus and devices for dealing with explosive devices (including “improvised explosive devices”): new controls are included in an amendment to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1191) made at the same time as these Regulations;

• regulation 7 introduces new controls on export of gravity meters;

• regulation 8 broadens the controls on exports of vessels to Iran and Iraq;

• regulation 9 restricts the controls on microlight aircraft and steerable parachutes so that they apply only to exports to Iran, Iraq and Libya, and makes minor adjustments to the controls on the export of technology relating to aircraft software.