Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2616 of 15 September 2023 amending Regulation (EU) 2021/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the list of dual-use items

Type Delegated Regulation
Publication 2023-12-15
State In force
Text As published
Department European Commission, TRADE
Source EUR-Lex
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3D006 'Electronic Computer-Aided Design' ('ECAD') "software" specially designed for the "development" of integrated circuits having any "Gate-All-Around Field-Effect Transistor" ("GAAFET") structure, and having any of the following:

Technical Notes:

For the purposes of 3D006:

- 2. 'Register Transfer Level' ('RTL') is a design abstraction which models a synchronous digital circuit in terms of the flow of digital signals between hardware registers, and the logical operations performed on those signals.

- 3. 'Geometrical Database Standard II' ('GDSII') is a database file format for data exchange of integrated circuit or integrated circuit layout artwork.

3D101

"Software" specially designed or modified for the "use" of equipment specified in 3A101.b.

3D225

"Software" specially designed to enhance or release the performance of frequency changers or generators to meet the characteristics of 3A225.

3E Technology

3E001

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development" or "production" of equipment or materials specified in 3A, 3B or 3C;

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 3E001 Note 3, a 'Process Design Kit' ('PDK') is a software tool provided by a semiconductor manufacturer to ensure that the required design practices and rules are taken into account in order to successfully produce a specific integrated circuit design in a specific semiconductor process, in accordance with technological and manufacturing constraints (each semiconductor manufacturing process has its particular 'PDK').

3E002

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note, other than that specified in 3E001, for the "development" or "production" of a "microprocessor microcircuit", "microcomputer microcircuit" or microcontroller microcircuit core, having an arithmetic logic unit with an access width of 32 bits or more and any of the following features or characteristics:

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 3E002.a., a 'vector processor unit' is a processor element with built-in instructions that perform multiple calculations on 'floating-point' vectors (one-dimensional arrays of 32-bit or larger numbers) simultaneously, having at least one vector arithmetic logic unit and vector registers of at least 32 elements each.

Technical Notes:

3E003 Other "technology" for the "development" or "production" of the following:

3E004

"Technology" "required" for the slicing, grinding and polishing of 300 mm diameter silicon wafers to achieve a 'Site Front least sQuares Range' ('SFQR') less than or equal to 20 nm at any site of 26 mm × 8 mm on the front surface of the wafer and an edge exclusion less than or equal to 2 mm.

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 3E004 'SFQR' is the range of maximum deviation and minimum deviation from front reference plane, calculated by least square method with all front surface data including site boundary within a site.

3E101

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment or "software" specified in 3A001.a.1. or 2., 3A101, 3A102 or 3D101.

3E102

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development" of "software" specified in 3D101.

3E201

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment specified in 3A001.e.2., 3A001.e.3., 3A001.g., 3A201, 3A225 to 3A234.

3E225

"Technology", in the form of codes or keys, to enhance or release the performance of frequency changers or generators to meet the characteristics of 3A225.

PART VI

Category 4

CATEGORY 4 – COMPUTERS

- Note 2: Control units which directly interconnect the buses or channels of central processing units, 'main storage' or disk controllers are not regarded as telecommunications equipment described in Category 5, Part 1 (Telecommunications).

Technical Note:

For the purposes of Note 2, 'main storage' is the primary storage for data or instructions for rapid access by a central processing unit. It consists of the internal storage of a "digital computer" and any hierarchical extension thereto, such as cache storage or non-sequentially accessed extended storage.

4A Systems, Equipment and Components

4A001 Electronic computers and related equipment, having any of the following and "electronic assemblies" and specially designed components therefor:

a. Total Dose 5 × 103 Gy (silicon);
b. Dose Rate Upset 5 × 106 Gy (silicon)/s; or
c. Single Event Upset 1 × 10–8 Error/bit/day;

4A003

- b. "Digital computers" having an "Adjusted Peak Performance" ("APP") exceeding 70 Weighted TeraFLOPS (WT);

4A004 Computers as follows and specially designed related equipment, "electronic assemblies" and components therefor:

Technical Notes:

- 2. For the purposes of 4A004.b., 'neural computers' are computational devices designed or modified to mimic the behaviour of a neuron or a collection of neurons, i.e., computational devices which are distinguished by their hardware capability to modulate the weights and numbers of the interconnections of a multiplicity of computational components based on previous data.

- 3. For the purposes of 4A004.c., 'optical computers' are computers designed or modified to use light to represent data and whose computational logic elements are based on directly coupled optical devices.

4A005

Systems, equipment, and components therefor, specially designed or modified for the generation, command and control, or delivery of "intrusion software".

4A101

Analogue computers, "digital computers" or digital differential analysers, other than those specified in 4A001.a.1., which are ruggedized and designed or modified for use in space launch vehicles specified in 9A004 or sounding rockets specified in 9A104.

4A102 Hybrid computers specially designed for modelling, simulation or design integration of space launch vehicles specified in 9A004 or sounding rockets specified in 9A104.

4B Test, Inspection and Production Equipment

None.

4C Materials

None.

4D Software

4D001

"Software" as follows:

4D002 Not used

4D003 Not used.

4D004

"Software" specially designed or modified for the generation, command and control, or delivery of "intrusion software".

4E Technology

4E001

"Technology" as follows:

TECHNICAL NOTE ON "ADJUSTED PEAK PERFORMANCE" ("APP")

"APP" is an adjusted peak rate at which "digital computers" perform 64-bit or larger floating point additions and multiplications.

"APP" is expressed in Weighted TeraFLOPS (WT), in units of 1012 adjusted floating point operations per second.

Abbreviations used in this Technical Note

n number of processors in the "digital computer"
i processor number (i,...n)
ti processor cycle time (ti = 1/Fi)
Fi processor frequency
Ri peak floating point calculating rate
Wi architecture adjustment factor

Outline of "APP" calculation method

1. For each processor i, determine the peak number of 64-bit or larger floating point operations, FPOi, performed per cycle for each processor in the "digital computer". Note: In determining FPO, include only 64-bit or larger floating point additions or multiplications. All floating point operations must be expressed in operations per processor cycle; operations requiring multiple cycles may be expressed in fractional results per cycle. For processors not capable of performing calculations on floating point operands of 64-bit or more, the effective calculating rate R is zero.
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2. Calculate the floating point rate R for each processor Ri = FPOi/ti.
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3. Calculate "APP" as "APP" = W1 × R1 + W2 × R2 + … + Wn × Rn.
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4. For 'vector processors', Wi = 0,9. For non-'vector processors', Wi = 0,3.

Technical Notes:

PART VII

Category 5

CATEGORY 5 – TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND "INFORMATION SECURITY"

Part 1 – TELECOMMUNICATIONS

5A1 Systems, Equipment and Components

5A001 Telecommunications systems, equipment, components and accessories as follows:

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A001.b.5.b., 'channel switching time' means the time (i.e., delay) to change from one receiving frequency to another, to arrive at or within ± 0,05 % of the final specified receiving frequency. Items having a specified frequency range of less than ± 0,05 % around their centre frequency are defined to be incapable of channel frequency switching.

Technical Notes:

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A001.c., 'proof test' is the on-line or off-line production screen testing that dynamically applies a prescribed tensile stress over a 0,5 to 3 m length of fibre at a running rate of 2 to 5 m/s while passing between capstans approximately 150 mm in diameter. The ambient temperature is a nominal 293 K (20 °C) and relative humidity 40 %. Equivalent national standards may be used for executing the proof test.

- 2. Rated for operation above 57 GHz, but not exceeding 66 GHz, and having an ERP equal to or greater than + 24 dBm (26,15 dBm EIRP);

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A001.d., 'electronically steerable phased array antenna' is an antenna which forms a beam by means of phase coupling, (i.e., the beam direction is controlled by the complex excitation coefficients of the radiating elements) and the direction of that beam can be varied (both in transmission and reception) in azimuth or in elevation, or both, by application of an electrical signal.

- 2. Interception equipment not specified in 5A001.f.1., designed for the extraction of client device or subscriber identifiers (e.g., IMSI, TIMSI or IMEI), signalling, or other metadata transmitted over the air interface;

- a. Simulate the functions of Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment;

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A001.g., non-radar transmitters may include commercial radio, television or cellular telecommunications base stations.

- 2. Being specially designed to carry out all of the following:

5A101 Telemetry and telecontrol equipment, including ground equipment, designed or modified for 'missiles'.

Technical Note:

In 5A101 'missile' means complete rocket systems and unmanned aerial vehicle systems capable of a range exceeding 300 km.

5B1 Test, Inspection and Production Equipment

5B001 Telecommunications test, inspection and production equipment, components and accessories, as follows:

5C1 Materials

None

5D1 Software

5D001

"Software" as follows:

Technical Notes:

- a. Billing purposes;

5D101

"Software" specially designed or modified for the "use" of equipment specified in 5A101.

5E1 Technology

5E001

"Technology" as follows:

- Note: 5E001.c.2.e. does not control "technology" for commercial TV systems.

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5E001.d., the parameter peak saturated power output may also be referred to on product data sheets as output power, saturated power output, maximum power output, peak power output, or peak envelope power output.

5E101

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment specified in 5A101.

Part 2 – "INFORMATION SECURITY"

5A002, 5D002.a.1., 5D002.b. and 5D002.c.1. do not control items as follows:

Technical Note:

For the purposes of the Cryptography Note, 'executable software' means "software" in executable form, from an existing hardware component excluded from 5A002 by the Cryptography Note.

Note to the Cryptography Note:

5A2 Systems, Equipment and Components

5A002

"Information security" systems, equipment and components, as follows:

Technical Notes:

Technical Note:

An algorithm described by Technical Note 2.c. may be referred to as being post-quantum, quantum-safe or quantum-resistant.

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A002.a. Note a.1.b.1., 'personal data' includes any data specific to a particular person or entity, such as the amount of money stored and data necessary for "authentication".

- 2. 'Readers/writers' specially designed or modified, and limited, for items specified in paragraph a.1. of this Note.

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A002.a. Note a.1.b.2., 'readers/writers' include equipment that communicates with smart cards or electronically readable documents through a network.

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A002.a. Note b., 'money transactions' includes the collection and settlement of fares or credit functions.

- c. Portable or mobile radiotelephones for civil use (e.g., for use with commercial civil cellular radio communication systems) that are not capable of transmitting encrypted data directly to another radiotelephone or equipment (other than Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment), nor of passing encrypted data through RAN equipment (e.g., Radio Network Controller (RNC) or Base Station Controller (BSC));

- 1. Being specially designed to communicate with the devices specified in paragraph j.1.a. above; and

Technical Notes:

- b. Being a 'cryptographic activation token';

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A002.b., a 'cryptographic activation token' is an item designed or modified for any of the following:

- 1. Converting, by means of "cryptographic activation", an item not specified in Category 5, Part 2 into an item specified in 5A002.a. or 5D002.c.1., and not released by the Cryptography Note (Note 3 in Category 5, Part 2); or

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A002.c., "quantum cryptography" is also known as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).

5A003 Systems, equipment and components, for non-cryptographic "information security", as follows:

5A004 Systems, equipment and components for defeating, weakening or bypassing "information security", as follows:

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A004.a., 'cryptanalytic functions' are functions designed to defeat cryptographic mechanisms in order to derive confidential variables or sensitive data, including clear text, passwords or cryptographic keys.

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 5A004.b.1., 'extract raw data' from a computing or communications device means to retrieve binary data from a storage medium (e.g., RAM, flash or hard disk) of the device without interpretation by the device’s operating system or filesystem.

5B2 Test, Inspection and Production Equipment

5B002

"Information security" test, inspection and "production" equipment, as follows:

5C2 Materials

None.

5D2 Software

5D002

"Software" as follows:

5E2 Technology

5E002

"Technology" as follows:

PART VIII

Category 6

CATEGORY 6 – SENSORS AND LASERS

6A Systems, Equipment and Components

6A001 Acoustic systems, equipment and components, as follows:

Technical Notes:

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 6A001.a.1.a.2., the acoustic sensor pressure rating determines the depth rating.

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 6A001.a.1.a.2.a.2., 'sounding rate' is the product of the maximum speed (m/s) at which the sensor can operate and the maximum number of soundings per swath assuming 100 % coverage. For systems that produce soundings in two directions (3D sonars), the maximum of the 'sounding rate' in either direction should be used.

Technical Notes:

For the purposes of 6A001.a.1.a.3.:

Technical Note:

For the purposes of 6A001.a.1.c.1., the 'free-field Source Level (SLRMS)' is defined along the maximum response axis and in the far field of the acoustic projector. It can be obtained from the Transmitting Voltage Response using the following equation: SLRMS = (TVR + 20log VRMS) dB (ref 1μPa at 1 m), where SLRMS is the source level, TVR is the Transmitting Voltage Response and VRMS is the Driving Voltage of the Projector.

Technical Notes:

For the purposes of 6A001.a.2.a.:

Technical Notes:

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