The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes the following changes to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994:

(a) cartridges specially designed for signalling, bird scaring or lighting of gas flares at oil wells have been removed from control;

(b) clarification is made to the control of military pyrotechnics to distinguish between that and devices that contain military pyrotechnics;

(c) equipment for the dissemination of tear gases and riot control agents that are specially designed or modified for military purposes are now controlled;

(d) goods specially designed for defence against riot control agents and tear gases that are specially designed for military purposes now controlled;

(e) goods specially designed for the detection or identification of riot control agents and tear gases that are specially designed for military purposes are now controlled;

(f) the control on nitroguanidine has been removed;

(g) specially designed components of constructions or combinations of metallic or non metallic materials that are specially designed to provide ballistic protection are now controlled under another entry as a result of which a consequential amendment is also made;

(h) bridges specially designed for military use are now controlled under a separate entry as a result of which a consequential amendment is also made;

(i) amendments are made to clarify that mixtures of chemical or biological toxic agents, and of toxic chemicals, are also controlled;

(j) software that is specially designed or modified to perform military specific functions is now brought under control;

(k) Schedule 3 specifying countries to which arms in transit through the United Kingdom may not be exported without a licence, can now include specific destinations in countries. Consequential amendments have been made to—

(i) article 3 and 3A of the principal Order, and

(ii) the list in Schedule 3 so as to distinguish between countries and destinations in countries;

(l) Nigeria has been removed from, and Macao Special Administrative Region has been added to, the list of countries and destinations to which arms in transit through the United Kingdom may not be exported without a licence; and

(m) minor drafting amendments have been made to correct grammatical errors.