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The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1991

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Publication 1991-11-25

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Made: 25th November 1991

Coming into force: 31st December 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 1 of the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939[^f00001] and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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(1) This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 31st December 1991.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–

“aircraft” does not include helicopters;

“bovine offal” means the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal over six months of age which has died or has been slaughtered, as the case may be, in the United Kingdom;

“Commissioners” means the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;

“country” includes territory;

“document” includes any record or device by means of which information is recorded or stored;

“goods”, unless otherwise specified, means both used and unused goods;

“hovercraft” has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Hovercraft Act 1968[^f00003];

“importation” and “exportation” in relation to a vessel, submersible vehicle, aircraft or helicopter includes the taking into or out of the United Kingdom of the vessel, submersible vehicle, aircraft or helicopter notwithstanding that the vessel, submersible vehicle, aircraft or helicopter is conveying goods or passengers, and whether or not it is moving under its own power; and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

“intestines” in the definition of “bovine offal” means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal from the junction of the abomasum and the duodenum to (and including) the rectum;

“Member State” means a Member State of the European Communities;

“microprogramme” means a sequence of elementary instructions, maintained in a special storage, the execution of which is initiated by the introduction of its reference instruction into an instruction register;

“normal commercial journey” means a journey providing transport services in the ordinary course of business;

“production” includes all production phases, including production engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly, inspection, testing and quality assurance;

“programme” means a sequence of instructions to carry out a process in, or convertible into, a form executable by an electronic computer and includes a microprogramme;

“scheduled goods” means goods of a description specified in Schedule 1 hereto;

“scheduled journey” means one of a series of journeys which are undertaken between the same two places and which together amount to a systematic service operated in such a manner that the benefits thereof are available to members of the public from time to time seeking to take advantage of it;

“ship” includes the hull or part of the hull of a ship;

“software” means one or more programmes fixed in any tangible medium of expression;

“surface effect vehicle” means any air cushion vehicle (whether side wall or skirted) and any vehicle using the wing-in-ground effect for positive lift;

“SWATH vessel” means any small waterplane area twin-hull vessel;

“technological document” means any document containing information relating to the design, production or use of goods or to technologies or processes, excluding: any document which is generally available to the public; any application for the grant of a patent (or any other form of protection for an invention) or for the registration of a design, or a semi conductor topography, in each case under the law of the United Kingdom or of any other country or under any treaty or international convention; any document necessary to enable any such application to be filed, made or pursued;

“vessel” includes any ship, surface effect vehicle, SWATH vessel and hydrofoil, and the hull or part of the hull of a vessel.

(3) In this Order–

(a) a prohibition on exportation is a prohibition on exportation from the United Kingdom including a prohibition on shipment as ships' stores;

(b) any reference to scheduled goods or any other item being indicated by a letter shall be taken as a reference to such goods or items being so indicated in Schedule 1 hereto;

(c) numerical references in Schedule 1 hereto to British Standards are references to the standards so numbered published by the British Standards Institution in the year indicated after such references with such amendments (if any) thereto as may have been made before the making of this Order;

(d) references in Schedule 1 hereto to percentages of the contents of any goods are references to percentages by weight;

(e) any description of goods specified in Group A of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto in relation to a Combined Nomenclature heading or sub-heading, other than one covering a whole heading, shall be taken to comprise all goods which would be classified under an entry in the same terms constituting a subheading in the relevant heading in the Combined Nomenclature of the European Economic Community[^f00004]. Prohibitions and restrictions on exportation

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Subject to the provisions of this Order–

(i) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “C”, those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination, and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in a country listed in Schedule 2 hereto;

(ii) where technology is specified in Schedule 1 to this Order and indicated by the letter “D”, technological documents the information in which includes information relating to that technology are prohibited to be exported to any destination in a country listed in Schedule 2 hereto;

(iii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “E” are prohibited to be exported to any destination except a destination in another Member State;

(iv) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “I”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Iran or Iraq;

(v) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “L”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Libya;

(vi) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “S”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination after delivery or for the purpose of delivery, directly or indirectly, to a person in any country listed in Schedule 2 hereto;

(vii) where technology is specified in Schedule 1 hereto and indicated by the letter “B”, technological documents the information in which includes information relating to that technology are prohibited to be exported to any destination;

(viii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “W” are prohibited to be exported to any destination;

(ix) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “X” are prohibited to be exported to any destination in India or Pakistan;

(x) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “Y”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Syria;

(xi) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “Z”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in South Africa;

(xii) specialised components of any goods of a description specified in Group 1 of Part II of Schedule 1 hereto, whether or not such components are specified in the description, are prohibited to be exported to any destination in South Africa;

(xiii) goods of a description specified in Group C of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto are prohibited to be exported to any destination in the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;

(xiv) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “A”, those goods, and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods, are prohibited to be exported to any destination; and

(xv) goods of a description specified in Schedule 3 hereto, and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which includes information relating to those goods, are prohibited to be exported to any destination–

(a) if the exporter knows that they are intended or likely to be used in–

(i) the development, production, handling, detection, identification or storage of chemical or biological weapons or of any chemical, toxin, micro-organism or other biological agent used in the development or production of such weapons;

(ii) the disposal of waste arising out of the development or production of chemical or biological weapons, or of any chemical, toxin, micro-organism or other biological agent used in the development or production of such weapons;

(iii) the development, production, handling, detection, identification or storage of any vaccine, toxoid, protein or immunoglobulin for protection against, or the treatment of, the harmful effects of any chemical, toxin, micro-organism or other biological agent used in such weapons;

(iv) the development, production, handling or storage of nuclear weapons; or

(v) the development, production, handling or storage of missiles capable of delivering nuclear, chemical or biological weapons;

(b) where the exporter knows or has grounds for suspecting that they might be used for any purpose referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above, unless he has made all reasonable enquiries as to their proposed use and satisfied himself that the goods will not be so used.

Community Steel Products

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The prohibition in article 2 (xiii) of this Order shall not apply to any exportation to any destination in the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico which is in accordance with a European Community export licence issued by the competent authority of a Member State in conformity with the provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3725/89[^f00005] or Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3726/89[^f00006] or Commission Decision No. 3727/89/ECSC[^f00007], and which is covered by an export certificate drawn up in conformity with those provisions.

Exceptions

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Nothing in article 2 of this Order shall be taken to prohibit the exportation of–

Licensed exports and permitted ships' stores a any goods under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State, or the shipment of any goods as ships' stores with the permission of the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the port of departure for use on board the ship, provided that all conditions attaching to the said licence or the said permission are complied with;

Channel Islands b any goods other than goods of a description specified in Group B of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto or in Group 1 of Part II of the said Schedule, to any destination in the Channel Islands;

Aircraft and helicopters c i any aircraft or helicopter which is being exported after temporary importation into the United Kingdom provided that there has been no change of ownership or registration since such importation; ii any aircraft or helicopter engaged on a scheduled journey;

Firearms and ammunition d i firearms (not being goods of a description specified in Group B of Part 1 of Schedule 1 hereto) authorized to be held by a valid firearm certificate or shotgun certificate granted or having effect as if granted under the Firearms Act 1968[^f00008] or by a valid firearm certificate granted under the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00009] or granted in the Isle of Man under the Firearms Act 1947 (an act of Tynwald)[^f00010]; and ii related ammunition for use therewith; to any destination other than a destination in South Africa, provided that the firearms and ammunition form part of the personal effects of the holder of the certificate and the certificate is produced by the holder, or his duly authorized agent, with the firearms and ammunition, to the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the place of export;

Live animals e i any live bovine animal, live swine or live sheep, if the place of export is in Great Britain; ii live bovine animals, live swine and live sheep from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland;

Vessels f i any vessel registered or constructed outside the United Kingdom which is being exported after temporary importation into the United Kingdom; ii any vessel which is departing from the United Kingdom on trials; iii any vessel proceeding on a normal commercial journey.

Customs powers to demand evidence of destination which goods reach

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Any exporter or any shipper of goods which have been exported from the United Kingdom shall, if so required by the Commissioners, furnish within such time as they may allow proof to their satisfaction that the goods have reached either–

(i) a destination to which they were authorized to be exported by a licence granted for the purposes of this Order, or

(ii) a destination to which their exportation was not prohibited by this Order;

and, if he fails to do so, he shall be liable to a customs penalty not exceeding two thousand pounds unless he proves that he did not consent to or connive at the goods reaching any destination other than such a destination as aforesaid.

Offences in connection with applications for licences, conditions attaching to licences, etc.

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(1) If for the purpose of–

(a) obtaining any licence or permission under this Order for the exportation or shipment as ships' stores of any goods; or

(b) obtaining from the Secretary of State a European Community export licence as referred to in article 3 of this Order,

any person–

(i) makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular; or

(ii) recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular,

he shall be guilty of an offence; and any licence or permission or European Community export licence which may have been granted for the exportation or shipment as ships' stores of any goods in connection with the application for which the false statement was made or the false document or information furnished, shall be void as from the time it was granted.

(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and

(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both.

(3) Any person who–

(a) has exported goods from the United Kingdom under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State in pursuance of article 4(a); and

(b) fails to comply with any condition attaching to that licence,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable–

(i) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and

(ii) on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both:

Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under this paragraph where he proves– that the condition with which he failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his consent, by the Secretary of State; and that the goods in relation to which he failed to comply with the condition had, at the time the condition was modified, been exported from the United Kingdom.

Declaration as to goods: powers of search

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(1) Any person who, on any occasion, is about to leave the United Kingdom shall, if on that occasion he is required to do so by an officer of Customs and Excise–

(a) declare whether or not he has with him any goods the export of which from the United Kingdom is subject to any prohibition or restriction under this Order; and

(b) produce any such goods as aforesaid which he has with him;

and such officer, and any person acting under his directions, may search that person for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has with him any such goods as aforesaid:

Provided that no person shall be searched in pursuance of this paragraph except by a person of the same sex.

(2) Any person who without reasonable excuse refuses to make a declaration, fails to produce any goods or refuses to allow himself to be searched in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this article shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a customs penalty not exceeding one thousand pounds.

(3) Any person who under the provisions of this article makes a declaration which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly makes any declaration which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a customs penalty not exceeding two thousand pounds and on conviction on indictment to a customs penalty of any amount or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both.

Modification and revocation of licences, etc.

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(1) A licence granted by the Secretary of State in pursuance of article 4(a) or having effect as if so granted may be modified or revoked by him at any time.

(2) Any permission granted by the proper officer of Customs and Excise for the shipment of any goods as ships' stores may be modified or revoked by such officer at any time.

Revocations

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The Orders specified in Schedule 4 hereto are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1 — PROHIBITED GOODS–MISCELLANEOUS CONTENTS

PART I

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Group A	Goods specified by reference to headings and sub-headings of the Combined Nomenclature	8
Group B	Antiques	8
Group C	Steel products prohibited to be exported to the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	8

PART II

Group 1	Military aircraft, Arms and related material, Ammunition, Military Stores and Appliances, and Security and Para-Military Police Equipment	9
Group 2A	Atomic Energy Minerals and Materials	16
Group 2B	Nuclear Facilities, Equipment and Appliances	17
Group 3A	Metal Working Machinery and Associated Equipment	24
Group 3B	Chemical and Petroleum Equipment	32
Group 3C	Electrical and Power-Generating Equipment	32
Group 3D	General Industrial Equipment	34
Group 3E	Aircraft, Spacecraft, Marine Equipment and Ships (other than Warships and Naval Equipment)	48
Group 3F	Electronic Equipment including Communications and Radar and Scientific Instruments and Apparatus	59
Group 3G	Electronic Equipment including Computers, Software and Tele-communications Equipment, and Photographic Equipment	87
Group 3H	Metals, Minerals and their Manufactures	113
Group 3I	Chemicals, Metalloids, Petroleum Products and Synthetic Rubber	116
INDEX		123

PART I

GROUP A — GOODS SPECIFIED BY REFERENCE TO HEADINGS AND SUB-HEADINGSOF THE COMBINED NOMENCLATURE (“CN”)

CN Heading and Sub-heading No.	Description of Goods
1002 Live bovine animals	W
0103 Live swine	W
010410 Live sheep	W
ex 0206 Bovine offal	E
ex 0210 Protein derived from bovine offal	E
ex 0504 Bovine offal	E
ex 0511 Bovine offal and protein derived from such offal	E
ex 2301 Protein derived from bovine offal	E
ex 2309 Feeding stuff containing bovine offal or protein derived from such offal	E

GROUP B — ANTIQUES

Any goods manufactured or produced more than 50 years before the date of exportationWexcept

(1) postage stamps and other articles of philatelic interest;

(2) birth, marriage or death certificates or other documents relating to the personal affairs of the exporter or the spouse of the exporter;

(3) letters or other writings written by or to the exporter or the spouse of the exporter; and

(4) any goods exported by, and being the personal property of, the manufacturer or producer thereof, or the spouse, widow or widower of that person.

GROUP C — STEEL PRODUCTS PROHIBITED TO BE EXPORTED TO THE UNITED STATESOF AMERICA OR THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO

The products specified in Annex I to the following Community instruments on the restriction of exports of certain steel products to the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico:

Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3722/89[^f00011]

Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3723/89[^f00012]

Commission Decision No. 3724/89/ECSC[^f00013]

PART II

Note: The goods in this Part are for convenience specified by reference to the classification system used by the Department of Trade and Industry for export control purposes.

GROUP 1

Note: Goods specified in the heads of this Group may also be specified in Groups 3E, 3F and 3G of this Part of this Schedule.

ML1	Small arms and machine guns, the following: and specially designed components therefor–
	(a) Rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, machine pistols and machine guns	C
	(b) Smooth-bore weapons specially designed for military use	C
	(c) Weapons using caseless ammunition	C
	except–
	air weapons (other than those declared by the Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969[^f00014] to be specially dangerous).
PL5018	Smooth-bore weapons other than those specially designed for military use	C
	except–
	air weapons (other than those declared by the Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons' Rules 1969 to be specially dangerous).
PL5003	Mountings for machine guns	C
ML2	Large calibre armament or weapons and projectors the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Guns, howitzers, cannon, mortars, tank destroyers, projectile launchers, military flame throwers, recoilless rifles	C
	(b) Military smoke, gas and pyrotechnic projectors or generators	C
ML3	Ammunition, including projectiles, and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor, for the equipment mentioned in entries ML1, ML2 and ML26	C
PL5021	Ammunition, including projectiles, and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor, for the equipment specified in entry PL5018	C
ML4	Bombs, torpedoes, rockets and missiles, the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Bombs, torpedoes, grenades (including smoke grenades), smoke canisters, rockets, mines, missiles, depth charges, fire bombs, incendiary bombs and military demolition charges, devices and kits, pyrotechnic flare signals for military use, cartridges and simulators	A
	(b) Apparatus and devices specially designed for the handling, control, activation, powering with one time operational output, launching, laying, sweeping, discharging, detonation or detection of items specified in head (a)	A
	(c) Military fuel thickeners, including compounds (eg octal) or mixtures of such compounds (eg napalm) specifically formulated for the purpose of producing materials which, when added to petroleum products, provide gel-type incendiary material for use in bombs, projectiles, flamethrowers or other implements of war	C
PL5019	Radomes specially designed to withstand a combined thermal shock greater than 41.8 kJ/m accompanied by a peak overpressure of greater than 49 kPa	C
PL5005	Apparatus and devices specially designed for the refuelling or disruption of items specified in head (a) of entry ML4 in this Group and specially designed components therefor	C
PL5006	Apparatus and devices specially designed for dealing with improvised explosive devices or with other explosive devices not specified in head (a) of entry ML4, and specially designed ODMA software therefor	C
	In this entry “improvised explosive devices” means devices placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic or incendiary chemicals, designed to destroy, disfigure or harass. They may incorporate military stores, but are normally devised from non-military components.
PL5026	Quartz crystals and assemblies thereof in worked, semi-finished, or mounted form, specially designed for equipment specified in entry ML4 in this Group, which have any of the following characteristics–
	(a) Radiation hardened	C
	(b) An operating temperature range wider than 120° C	C
	(c) Rated to have an acceleration sensitivity of less than 1×10 −9: of the operating frequency per g (where g=9.81 metres/sec²) over a vibration test frequency range from 10 Hz to 2 KHz sinewave and with a maximum level of acceleration not exceeding 20 g	C
PL5024	Electrical pulsers capable of precisely timed, multiple initiations of explosives, controlled to ten microseconds or less, capable of delivering an output current greater than 100 amperes into a load of less than 40 ohms, and specially designed components and equipment therefor	C
ML5	Fire control systems and sub-systems, specially designed for military use, the following: and specially designed components and accessories and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Fire control, gun laying, night sighting, missile tracking and guidance equipment and target surveillance equipment	A
	(b) Range, position and height finders, spotting instruments, detection, recognition or identification equipment and sensor integration equipment	A
	(c) Electronic, electro-optic, gyroscopic, acoustic and optical aiming or sighting devices	C
	(d) Bomb sights, bombing computers, gun sights and periscopes	C
ML6	Vehicles specially designed or modified for military use, the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Tanks and self-propelled guns	C
	(b) Military type armed or armoured vehicles, and vehicles fitted with mounting for arms	C
	(c) Armoured railway trains	C
	(d) Military half-tracks	C
	(e) Military type recovery vehicles	C
	(f) Gun-carriers and tractors specially designed for towing artillery	C
	(g) Trailers specially designed to carry ammunition	C
	(h) Amphibious and deep water fording military vehicles	C
	(i) Military mobile repair shops specially designed to service military equipment	C
	(j) All other military vehicles specially designed or modified for military use, including tank transporters, tracked amphibious cargo carriers, high speed tractors and heavy artillery transporters	A
	(k) Pneumatic tyre casings of a kind specially constructed to be bullet proof or to run when deflated	C
	(l) Engines for the propulsion of the vehicles specified in heads (a) to (j), and specially designed components therefor	C
	(m) Tyre inflation pressure control systems, operated from inside a moving vehicle, specially designed or modified for military use	C
	(n) Large deflection suspensions specially designed or modified for military use	C
	In this entry “specially modified for military use” means a structural, electrical or mechanical modification which entails replacing a component with at least one specially designed military component, or adding at least one such component.
ML7	Toxicological agents and tear gas and related equipment, components, materials and technology the following: and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Biological agents, chemical agents and radioactive materials adapted for use in war to produce casualties in humans or animals, or to damage crops	C
	(aa) Tear gases and riot control agents, the following–
	(1) Bromobenzyl cyanide (CR)	C
	(2) oChlorobenzylidenemalononitrile (CS)	C
	(3) Phenylacyl chloride (w-Chloroacetophenone) (CN)	C
	(b) Equipment specially designed and intended for the dissemination of the materials specified in head (a)	C
	(c) Equipment specially designed and intended for defence against the materials specified in head (a) and for their detection and identification	C
	(d) Components specially designed for the items specified in head (b) or (c)C
	(e) Biopolymers specially designed or processed for detection and identification of chemical warfare (CW) agents specified in head (a) and the cultures of specific cells used to produce them	C
	(f) Biocatalysts for decontamination and degradation of CW agents, and biological systems therefor, the following–
	(1) biocatalysts, specially designed for decontamination and degradation of CW agents described in head (a) resulting from directed laboratory selection or genetic manipulation of biological systems;	C
	(2) biological systems, the following: expression vectors, viruses or cultures of cells containing the genetic information specific to the production of biocatalysts specified in subhead (f)(1)	C
	(g) Technology, the following–
	(1) technology for the development, production or use of toxicological agents, related equipment or components, agents, or materials specified in heads (a) to (d), or of tear gas	D
	(2) technology for the development, production or use of biopolymers, and cultures of specific cells to produce them, specified in head (e) D
	(3) technology exclusively for the incorporation of biocatalysts specified in subhead (f)(1) into military carrier substances or military material	D
	(h) Noxious chemicals, the following–
	(1) Bromobenzyl cyanide	C
	(2) oChlorobenzylidenemalononitrile (oChlorobenzalmalononitrile)	C
	(3) monoChloromethyl chlorformate	C
	(4) 2-Chlorotriethylamine	C
	(5) Dibenzoxazepine	C
	(6) Dibromodimethyl ether	C
	(7) Dichloromodimethyl ether	C
	(8) 2:2'-Dichlorotriethylamine	C
	(9) Diphenylaminechloroarsine	C
	(10) Diphenylchloroarsine	C
	(11) Diphenylcyanoarsine	C
	(12) Ethyl NN-dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate	C
	(13) Ethyldibromoarsine	C
	(14) Ethyldichloroarsine	C
	(15) Lewisite (chlorovinyldichloroarsine and dichlorodivinylchloroarsine)	C
	(16) Methyldichloroarsine	C
	(17) Mustard gas (dichlorodiethyl sulphide)	C
	(18) Phenylcarbylamine chloride (phenylaminocarbonyl chloride)	C
	(19) Phenylacyl chloride (w-Chloroacetophenone)	C
	(20) Phenyldibromoarsine	C
	(21) Phenyldichloroarsine	C
	(22) Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate	C
	(23) isoPropyl methylphosphonofluoridate	C
	(24) 2:2':2" Trichlorotriethylamine	C
	In this entry–
	“anti-idiotypic antibodies” means antibodies which bind to the specific antigen binding sites of other antibodies;
	“biocatalysts” means enzymes and other biological compounds which bind to and accelerate the degradation of CW agents;
	“biopolymers” means the following biological macromolecules:
	(1) enzymes;
	(2) antibodies, monoclonal, polyclonal or anti-idiotypic;
	(3) specially designed or specially processed receptors;
	“enzymes” means biocatalysts for specific chemical or biochemical reactions;
	“expression vectors” means carriers (eg plasmid or virus) which are used to introduce genetic material into host cells;
	“monoclonal antibodies” means proteins which bind to one antigenic site and are produced by a single clone of cells;
	“polyclonal antibodies” means a mixture of proteins which bind to the specific antigen and are produced by more than one clone of cells;
	“receptors” means biological macromolecular structure capable of binding ligands, the binding of which affects physiological functions;
	“riot control agents” means substances which produce temporary, irritating or disabling physical effects which disappear within minutes of removal from exposure.
	“tear gases” means gases which produce temporary, irritating or disabling physical effects which disappear within minutes of removal from exposure;
PL5009	Explosives and propellants, and related substances and software, the following–
	(a) Explosives as defined in section 3 of the Explosives Act 1875[^f00015] except those specially designed for toys, novelty goods and display fireworks	C
	(b) Military propellants and fuels not elsewhere specified in this Schedule	A
	(c) Military pyrotechnics	C
	(d) Additives, precursors, stabilisers and specially designed software, for any of the materials specified in heads (a) to (c) above (inclusive) A
ML9	Vessels (including ships) of war and special naval equipment, the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Combatant vessels or vessels (surface or underwater) specially designed or modified for offensive or defensive action, whether or not converted to non-military use and regardless of current state of repair or operating condition	C
	(b) Engines, the following–
	(1) diesel engines specially designed for submarines with both of the following characteristics	C
	(A) a power output of 1.12 MW (1,500 hp) or more;
	(B) a rotary speed of 700 rev/min or more;
	(2) electric motors, specially designed for submarines, having all of the following characteristics	C
	(A) a power output of more than 0.75 MW (1,000 hp);
	(B) quick reversing;
	(C) liquid cooled;
	(D) totally enclosed;
	(3) non-magnetic diesel engines specially designed for military purposes with a power output of 37.3 kW (50 hp) or more	C
	(c) Underwater detection devices specially designed for military purposes and controls thereof	C
	(d) Submarine and torpedo nets	C
	(e) Compasses and equipment therefor and ship’s course indicators, specially designed for submarines	C
	(f) Hull penetrators and connectors specially designed for military purposes that enable interaction with equipment external to a vessel	C
	(g) Silent bearings specially designed for military purposes and equipment containing those bearings	C
ML10	Aircraft and helicopters, unmanned airborne vehicles, aero-engines and aircraft or helicopter equipment, associated equipment and components, specially designed for military purposes, the following: and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Combat aircraft and helicopters and other aircraft and helicopters specially designed for military purposes, including military reconnaissance, assault, military training and logistic support and all aircraft and helicopters having special structural features such as multiple hatches, special doors, ramps and reinforced floors, for transporting and airdropping troops, military equipment and supplies, and specially designed components therefor	A
	(b) Aero-engines specially designed or adapted for use with aircraft and helicopters specified in head (a) of this entry, and specially designed components therefor	A
	(c) Unmanned airborne vehicles, including remotely piloted air vehicles (RPVs), and autonomous, programmable vehicles specially designed or modified for military purposes, and their launchers, ground support and associated equipment for command and control	A
	(d) Airborne equipment, including airborne refuelling equipment, specially designed for use with the aircraft and helicopters and the aero-engines specified in head (a) or (b) of this entry, and specially designed components therefor	C
	(e) Pressure refuellers, pressure refuelling equipment, equipment specially designed to facilitate operations in confined areas and ground equipment, developed specially for aircraft and helicopters specified in head (a) of this entry, or for aero-engines specified in head (b) of this entry	C
	(f) Pressurised breathing equipment and partial pressure suits for use in aircraft and helicopters, anti-g suits, military crash helmets and protective masks, liquid oxygen converters used for aircraft, helicopters and missiles, catapults and cartridge actuated devices utilised in emergency escape of personnel from aircraft and helicopters (cont.) (g) Parachutes used for combat personnel, cargo dropping and aircraft deceleration, the following–	C
	(1) parachutes for–
	(a) pin point dropping of rangers	C
	(b) dropping of paratroopers	C
	(2) cargo parachutes	C
	(3) paragliders (drag parachutes, drogue parachutes for stabilisation and attitude control of dropping bodies, e.g., recovery capsules, ejection seats, bombs)	C
	(4) drogue parachutes for use with ejection seat systems for deployment and inflation sequence regulation of emergency parachutes	C
	(5) recovery parachutes for guided missiles, drones and space vehicles	C
	(6) approach parachutes and landing deceleration parachutes	C
	(7) other military parachutes	C
	(h) Automatic piloting systems for parachuted loads; equipment specially designed or modified for military purposes for controlled opening jumps at any height, including oxygen equipment	C
ML11	Electronic equipment specially designed for military use and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor	A
ML12	Photographic and electro-optical imaging equipment, the following: and specially designed components and specially designed software therefor–
	(a) Air reconnaissance cameras and associated equipment designed for military purposes	C
	(b) Other cameras and electro-optical imaging devices, including infrared and imaging radar sensors, whether recording or transmitting via data link, designed for military including reconnaissance purposes	C
	(c) Specialised equipment for the cameras and electro-optical imaging devices specified in head (b) above designed to make the recorded or transmitted information militarily useful	C
	(d) Film processing and printing machines designed for military purposes	C
ML13	Special armoured equipment, the following:
	(a) Armoured plate	C
	(b) Combinations and constructions of metallic and non-metallic materials specially designed to provide ballistic protection for military systems	C
	(c) Military helmets	C
	(d) Body armour, bullet-proof or bullet-resistant clothing, flack suits and specially designed components therefor	C
PL5014	Specially designed components for the equipment specified in entry ML13 head (a), (b) or (c), in this Group	C
ML14	Specialised equipment for military training or for simulating military scenarios, and specially designed components and accessories and specially designed ODMA software therefor	C
ML15	Military infrared, thermal imaging and image intensifier equipment, and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor	C
ML16	Forgings, castings and semi-finished products specially designed for products specified in entry ML1, ML2, ML3, ML4, ML6 or ML10 above	C
PL5020	Forgings, castings and semi-finished products specially designed for products specified in entry PL5003, PL5005, PL5006 or PL5018 above	C
ML17	Miscellaneous equipment and materials, the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor:
	(a) Self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus, the following–
	(1) closed and semi-closed circuit (rebreathing) apparatus	C
	(2) specially designed components for use in the conversion of open-circuit apparatus to military use	C
	(3) articles designed exclusively for military use with self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus	C
	(b) Firearms silencers (mufflers)	C
	(c) Power-controlled searchlights and control units therefor, designed for military use	C
	(d) Construction equipment built to military specifications, specially designed for airborne transport	C
	(e) External fittings, coatings and treatments for the suppression of acoustic, radar, infrared and other emissions, specially designed for military use	C
	(f) Field engineer equipment specially designed for use in a combat zone	C
PL5002	Telescopic sights for firearms	C
ML18	Equipment and technology for the production of items specified in this Group, the following: and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Specially designed or modified production equipment for the production of products specified in this Group and specially designed components therefor	A
	(b) Specially designed environmental test facilities, and specially designed equipment therefor, for the certification, qualification, or testing of products specified in this Group	A
	(c) Production technology, even if the equipment with which such technology is to be used is not specified in this Group	B
	(d) Technology specific to the design of, the assembly of components into, and the operation, maintenance and repair of, complete production installations even if the components themselves are not specified in this Group	B
	In this entry “production” means design, examination, manufacture, testing and checking.
PL5017	Equipment and technology for the development of the goods specified in this Group and specially designed ODMA software therefor	C
ML20	Cryogenic and superconductive equipment, the following: and specially designed components and accessories and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Equipment specially designed or configured to be installed in a vehicle for military ground, marine, airborne or space applications and capable of operating while in motion and of producing or maintaining temperatures below 103 K (−170°C)	C
	(b) Superconductive electrical equipment (rotating machinery and transformers) designed for operation at temperatures below 103 K (−170°C), and which are specially designed or configured to be installed in a vehicle for military ground, marine, airborne or space applications and capable of operating while in motion	C
	except direct-current hybrid homopolar generators that have single-pole normal metal armatures which rotate in a magnetic field produced by superconducting windings, provided those windings are the only superconducting component in the generator.
ML22	Electrically triggered shutters of the photochromic or electro-optical type having a shutter speed of less than 100 microseconds, and specially designed ODMA software therefor; except shutters specially designed for high-speed cameras	C
ML23	Directed energy weapons (DEW) systems, the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor–
	(a) Laser systems specially designed for destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target	C
	(b) Particle beam systems capable of destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target	C
	(c) High power radio-frequency (RF) systems capable of destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target	C
	(d) Specially designed components for systems specified in head (a), (b) or (c) above, including	C
	(1) prime power generation, energy storage, switching, power conditioning and fuel-handling equipment	C
	(2) target acquisition and tracking sub-systems	C
	(3) sub-systems capable of assessing target damage, destruction or mission-abort	C
	(4) beam-handling, propagation and pointing equipment	C
	(5) equipment with rapid beam slew capability for rapid multiple target operations	C
	(6) adaptive optics	C
	(7) current injectors for negative hydrogen ion beams which provide average injection currents over 50 mA with beam brightness (defined as current divided by the the product of orthogonal transverse, normalised root mean square emittances) greater than 40 A/(cm² mrad²) at kinetic energies of moren than 20 keV	C
	(8) specially designed components for the equipment specified in sub-heads (1) to (7) above	C
	(e) Equipment specially designed for the detection and identification of, and defence against, systems specified in head (a), (b) or (c) above, and specially designed ODMA software therefor	C
	(f) Physical test models and related documentation for the systems, equipment and components specified in heads (a) to (e) above	C
ML24	Software not elsewhere specified, the following–
	(a) Software specially designed for:
	(1) modelling, simulation or evaluation of military weapon systems	C
	(2) development, monitoring, maintenance or up-dating of software embedded in military weapon systems	C
	(3) modelling or simulating military operation scenarios, not specified in entry ML14 in this group	C
	(4) Command, Communications, Control and Intelligence (C₃I) applications	C
	(b) Software for determining the effects of conventional, nuclear, chemical or biological warfare weapons	C
ML26	Kinetic energy weapon systems and associated equipment, the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA softwaretherefor–
	(a) Kinetic energy weapons systems specially designed for destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target	C
	(b) Specially designed test and evaluation facilities and test models, including diagnostic instrumentation and targets, for dynamic testing of kinetic energy projectiles and systems	C
	(c) Specially designed subsystems for systems specified in head (a) or (b) above, including the following	C
	(1) launch-propulsion-subsystems capable of accelerating masses larger than 0.1 g to velocities in excess of 1.6 km/s, in single or rapid fire modes;
	(2) prime power generation, energy storage, thermal management, conditioning, switching and fuel-handling equipment;
	(3) target acquisition, tracking, fire control and damage assessment subsystems;
	(4) homing seeker, guidance and divert propulsion (lateral acceleration) subsystems for projectiles.
PL5001	Security and para-military police equipment, the following–
	(a) Acoustic devices represented by the manufacturers or suppliers thereof as suitable for riot control purposes, and specialised components therefor	C
	(b) Anti-riot shields and components therefor	C
	(c) Leg-irons, shackles (excluding handcuffs) and gangchains, specially designed for restraining human beings	C
	(d) Portable anti-riot devices for administering an electric shock or an incapacitating substance, and specialised components therefor	C
	(e) Water cannon and components therefor	C
	(f) Riot control vehicles which have been specially designed or modified to be electrified to repel boarders	C

GROUP 2 — ATOMIC ENERGY MINERALS AND MATERIALS AND NUCLEAR FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT AND APPLIANCES

Note 1: For the purposes of this Group “crude forms” and “semi-fabricated forms” have the same meaning as in Group 3H.

Note 2: Goods specified in this Group may also be specified in Group 3 of this Part of this Schedule.

GROUP 2A

A1	Special and other fissile materials	C
	except–
	(1) when contained in a sensing component or instrument, up to three effective grammes;
	(2) when contained in heart pacemakers.
	In this entry–
	“special fissile materials” means plutonium-239, uranium-233, uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233, and any material containing the foregoing;
	“uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233” means uranium containing the isotopes 235 or 233, or both, in an amount such that the abundance ratio of the sum of these isotopes to the isotope 238 is more than the ratio of the isotope 235 to the isotope 238 occurring in nature (isotopic ratio 0.72 per cent);
	“other fissile materials” means previously separated americium-242m, curium-245 and -247, californium-249 and -251, neptunium-237, isotopes of plutonium other than -239 and any material containing the foregoing;
	“effective gramme” of special or other fissile material means
	(a) for plutonium isotopes and uranium-233, the isotope weight in grammes;
	(b) for uranium enriched 1 per cent or greater in the isotope U-235, the element weight in grammes multiplied by the square of its enrichment expressed as a decimal weight fraction;
	(c) for uranium enriched below 1 per cent in the isotope U-235, the element weight in grammes multiplied by 0.0001;
	(d) for americium-242m, curium-245 and -247, californium-249 and -251 and neptunium-237, the isotope weight in grammes multiplied by 10;
	“previously separated” means the application of any process intended to increase the concentration of the controlled isotope.
A2	Natural and depleted uranium, in any form, or incorporated in any substance in which the concentration of uranium exceeds 0.05%, by weight	C
	In this entry–
	“natural uranium” means uranium containing the mixtures of isotopes occurring in nature.
	“depleted uranium” means uranium depleted in the isotope 235 below that occurring in nature.
PL6001	Source material, the following–
	Thorium, in any form, or incorporated in any substance in which the concentration of thorium exceeds 0.05%	C
	except alloys containing less than 5% thorium.
A3	Deuterium, heavy water, deuterated paraffins, and simple or complex lithium deuterides, and mixtures and solutions containing deuterium, in which the isotopic ratio of deuterium to hydrogen exceeds 1:5,000	C
PL6012	Compounds of deuterium	C
A4	Zirconium metal, alloys containing more than 50% zirconium by weight, compounds in which the ratio of hafnium content to zirconium content is less than one part to five hundred parts by weight, and goods composed wholly of any such metal, alloy or compound	C
	except–
	Zirconium in the form of foil or strip having a thickness not exceeding 0.01 mm.
A5	Nickel powder and porous nickel metal, the following–
	(a) Powder with a nickel content of 99% or more and a mean particle size of less than 100 micrometres, whether compacted or not	C
	(b) Porous nickel metal material produced from materials specified in head (a) above except single porous nickel metal sheets not exceeding 930 cm² intended for use in batteries for civil applications	C
PL6011	Graphite, nuclear-grade, having a purity level of less than 5 parts per million boron equivalent and with a density greater than 1.5 gcm³	C
A7	Lithium, the following–
	(a) Lithium metal, and hydrides and alloys containing lithium enriched in the lithium-6 isotope to a concentration higher than 7.5% on an atom percentage basis	C
	(b) Any other materials containing lithium enriched in the 6 isotope (including compounds, mixtures and concentrates)	C
	except–
	lithium enriched in the 6 isotope incorporated in thermoluminescent dosimeters.
A8	Hafnium, the following–
	Hafnium metal, and alloys and compounds of hafnium containing more than 60% hafnium by weight, in crude, fabricated or semi-fabricated form	C
A9	Beryllium, the following–
	(a) Beryllium and alloys containing more than 50 per cent of beryllium, in crude or semi-fabricated forms	C
	(b) Beryllium compounds	C
	(c) Manufactures of any of the foregoing except metal windows for medicalX-ray machines and oxide shapes in fabricated or semi-fabricated forms specially designed for electronic component parts or as substrates for electronic circuits	C
PL6002	Fluorine	C
PL6003	Chlorine trifluoride	C
A12	Tritium, and compounds and mixtures containing tritium in which the ratio of tritium to hydrogen by atoms exceeds 1 part in 1,000, and products containing one or more of the foregoing	C
	except
	(i) labelled compounds not exceeding 100 curies activity (in this exception “labelled compounds” means compounds in which one of the atoms is a different isotope from that found normally);
	(ii) tritium contained in luminous paint, self-luminous products, gas and aerosol detectors, electron tubes, lighting or static elimination devices, ion generating tubes, detector cells of gas chromatography devices, and calibration standards;
	(iii) compounds and mixtures of tritium, where the separation of the consitutents cannot result in the evolution of an isotopic mixture of hydrogen in which the ratio of tritium to hydrogen by atoms exceeds 1 part in 1,000.
A14	Specially designed or prepared materials for the separation of isotopes of natural uranium, depleted uranium and special and other fissile materials, including specially designed chemical exchange resins	C
	Note 1: see entries A1 and A2 in this Group for the special and other fissile materials to which this entry refers.
	Note 2: for isotopic separation plants, see the entry in Group 2B relating thereto.
A15	Wet proofed platinised catalysts specially designed or prepared for promoting hydrogen isotope exchange between hydrogen and water for the recovery of tritium from heavy water or for heavy water production	C
PL6005	Calcium containing less than 100 parts per million by weight of impurities other than magnesium and less than 10 parts per million by weight of boron	C
PL6006	Alloys containing a higher percentage of magnesium than of any other element and 10% or more of lithium	C
PL6014	UF₆-resistant fully fluorinated hydrocarbon polymers specially prepared for the manufacture of gaseous diffusion barriers, having a purity of 99.9 per cent or more, a particle size less than 10 microns and a high degree of particle size uniformity	C

GROUP 2B

B1	Plant for the separation of isotopes of natural and depleted uranium, and other fissile materials, and specially designed or prepared equipment and components therefor, the following–
	(a) Plant specially designed for separating isotopes of natural and depleted uranium, and other fissile materials, the following–
	(1) Gaseous diffusion separation plant	C
	(2) Gas centrifuge separation plant	C
	(3) Aerodynamic separation plant	C
	(4) Chemical exchange separation plant	C
	(5) Ion-exchange separation plant	C
	(6) Atomic vapour laser isotopic separation plant	C
	(7) Molecular laser isotopic separation plant	C
	(8) Plasma separation plant	C
	(9) Electromagnetic separation plant	C
	(b) Equipment and components, the following: specially designed or prepared for–
	(1) Gaseous diffusion separation process–
	(A) Valves wholly made of or lined with aluminium, aluminium alloys, nickel or alloy containing 60% or more nickel, 40 mm or more in diameter, with bellows seals	C
	(B) Blowers and compressors (turbo, centrifugal and axial flow types) wholly made of or lined with aluminium, aluminium alloys, nickel or alloy containing 60% or more nickel and having a capacity of 1,000 litres per minute or more, including compressor seals	C
	(C) Gaseous diffusion barriers made of porous metallic, polymer or ceramic materials resistant to corrosion by UF₆ with a pore size under 100 nm, a thickness of 5 mm or less, and, for tubular forms, a diameter of 25 mm or less	C
	(D) Gaseous diffuser housings	C
	(E) Heat exchangers made of aluminium, copper, nickel or alloys containing more than 60% nickel, or combinations of these metals as clad tubes, designed to operate at sub-atmospheric pressure with a leak rate that limits the pressure rise to less than 10 Pa (0.1 millibar) per hour under a pressure differential of 100 kPa (1 bar)	C
	(2) Gas centrifuge separation process–
	(A) Gas centrifuges	C
	(B) Complete rotor assemblies	C
	(C) Rotor tube cylinders with a thickness of 12 mm or less, a diameter of between 75 mm and 400 mm, made from any of the following high strength-to-density ratio materials–
	(a) Maraging steel capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 2.05 GN/m² or more	C
	(b) Aluminium alloys capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 460 MN/m² or more	C
	or
	(c) Fibrous and filamentary materials with a specific modulus of more than 3.18 × 10⁶ m and a specific tensile strength greater than 76.2 × 10³ m	C
	(D) Magnetic suspension bearings consisting of an annular magnet suspended within a housing containing a damping medium, and having the magnet coupling with a pole piece or second magnet fitted to the top cap of the rotor	C
	(E) Specially prepared bearings comprising a pivot-cup assembly mounted on a damper	C
	(F) Rings or bellows with a wall thickness of 3 mm or less and a diameter of between 75 mm and 400 mm and designed to give local support to a rotor tube or to join a number together, made from any of the following high strength-to-density ratio materials–
	(a) Maraging steel capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 2.05 GN/m² or more	C
	(b) Aluminium alloys capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 460 MN/m² or more	C
	or
	(c) Fibrous and filamentary materials with a specific modulus of more than 3.18 × 10⁶ m and a specific tensile strength greater than 76.2 × 10³ m	C
	(G) Baffles of between 75 mm and 400 mm diameter for mounting inside a rotor tube, made from any of the following high strength-to-density ratio materials–
	(a) Maraging steel capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 2.05 GN/m² or more	C
	(b) Aluminium alloys capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 460 MN/m² or more	C
	(c) Fibrous and filamentary materials with a specific modulus of more than 3.18 × 10⁶ m and a specific tensile strength greater than 76.2 × 10³ m	C
	(H) Top and bottom caps of between 75 mm and 400 mm diameter to fit the ends of a rotor tube, made from any of the following high strength-to-density ratio materials–
	(a) Maraging steel capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 2.05 GN/m² or more	C
	(b) Aluminium alloys capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 460 MN/m² or more	C
	or
	(c) Fibrous and filamentary materials with a specific modulus of more than 3.18 × 10⁶ and a specific tensile strength greater than 76.2 × 10³ m	C
	(I) Molecular pumps comprised of cylinders having internally machined or extruded helical grooves and internally machined bores	C
	(J) Ring-shaped motor stators for multiphase AC hysteresis or reluctance motors for synchronous operation within a vacuum in the frequency range of 600 to 2,000 Hz and a power range of 50 to 1,000 Volt-Amps	C
	(K) Frequency changers specially designed or prepared to supply motor stators for gas centrifuge enrichment, having all of the following characteristics, and specially designed components therefor–	C
	(a) Multiphase output of 600 to 2,000 Hz;
	(b) Frequency control better than 0.1%;
	(c) Harmonic distortion of less than 2%; and
	(d) An efficiency greater than 80%;
	(3) Aerodynamic separation process–
	(A) Separation nozzles consisting of slit-shaped, curved channels having a radius of curvature less than 1 mm and having a knife-edge contained within the nozzle which separates the gas flowing through the nozzle into two streams	C
	(B) Tangential inlet flow-driven cylindrical or conical tubes, specially designed for uranium isotope separation	C
	(C) UF⁶-hydrogen helium compressors wholly made of or lined with aluminium, aluminium alloys, nickel or alloy containing 60% or more nickel, including compressor seals	C
	(D) Aerodynamic separation element housing, designed to contain vortex tubes or separation nozzles	C
	(E) Heat exchangers made of aluminium, copper, nickel, or alloys containing more than 60% nickel, or combinations of these metals as clad tubes, designed to operate at pressures of 600 kPa (6 bar) or less	C
	(4) Chemical exchange separation process–
	(A) Fast-exchange liquid-liquid centrifugal contactors or fast exchange liquid-liquid pulse columns made of fluorocarbon lined materials	C
	(B) Electrochemical reduction cells designed to reduce uranium from one valence state to another	C
	(5) Ion-exchange separation process– Fast reacting ion-exchange resins, pellicular and reticulated resins in which the active chemical exchange groups are limited to a coating on the surface of an inert particle or fibre	C
	(6) Atomic vapour laser isotopic separation process–
	(A) High power electron beam guns with total power of more than 50 kW and strip or scanning electron beam guns with a delivered power of more than 2.5 kW/cm for use in uranium vaporization systems	C
	(B) Trough shaped crucible and cooling equipment for molten uranium	C
	(C) Product and tails collector systems made of or lined with materials resistant to the heat and corrosion of uranium vapour	C
	(D) Lasers and components designed for atomic vapour laser isotopic separation, the following–
	(a) Lasers to pump dye lasers–
	(1) Copper vapour lasers of 40 W or more	C
	(2) Argon ion lasers of more than 40 W	C
	(3) ND:YAG lasers that can be frequency doubled and thereby have an average power of more than 40 W	C
	(b) Other lasers and accessories–
	(1) Tunable pulsed dye laser amplifiers and oscillators	C
	except–
	single mode oscillators, with an average power of more than 30W, a repetition rate of more than 1 kHz and a wavelength between 500 nm and 700 nm.
	(2) Modulators for controlling and modifying dye laser bandwidth	C
	(3) Tunable pulsed single mode dye oscillators capable of an average power of more than 1W, and having a repetition rate of more than 1 KHz, a pulse width less than 100 ns, a wavelength between 500 nm and 700 nm and frequency modulation for bandwidth expansion	C
	(7) Molecular laser isotopic separation process–
	(A) Para-hydrogen Raman shifters designed to operate at 16 micrometres output wavelength and at a repetition rate of more than 250 Hz	C
	(B) Supersonic expansion nozzles designed for UF⁶ carrier gas	C
	(C) Uranium fluoride (UF⁵ ) product filter collectors	C
	(D) Equipment for fluorinating UF⁵ to UF⁶	C
	(E) UF⁶ carrier gas compressors wholly made of or lined with aluminium, aluminium alloys, nickel or alloy containing 60% or more nickel, including compressor seals	C
	(F) Lasers designed for molecular laser isotopic separation, the following–
	(a) Alexandrite lasers with a bandwidth of 0.005 nm (3.0 GHz) or less, a repetition rate of more than 125 Hz, and an average power of more than 30W	C
	(b) Pulsed carbon dioxide lasers with a repetition rate of more than 250 Hz, an average power of more than 1.2 kW and a pulse length less than 200 ns	C
	(c) Pulsed excimer lasers (XeF, XeC1, KrF) with a repetition rate of more than 250 Hz and an average power of more than 250W	C
	(8) Plasma separation process–
	(A) Product and tails collectors made of or lined with materials resistant to the heat and corrosion of uranium vapour	C
	(B) Radio frequency ion excitation coils for frequencies of more than 100 kHz and capable of handling more than 40 kW power	C
	(C) Microwave power sources and superconductive electromagnets designed for use in the plasma separation process, the following–
	(a) Microwave power sources of more than 30 GHz and greater than 50 kW for ion production	C
	(b) Solenoidal superconductive electromagnets of more than 30 cm inner diameter, with a magnetic field of more than 2 T and uniform to better than 1% over the central 80% of the inner volume	C
	(9) Taking on-line samples of feed, product or tails from UF⁶ gas streams–
	UF⁶ mass spectrometers/ion sources having all of the following characteristics	C
	(A) Unit resolution for mass of more than 320 amu;
	(B) Ion sources constructed of or lined with nichrome or monel, or nickel plated;
	(C) Electron bombardment ionization sources; and
	(D) Collector systems suitable for isotopic analysis.
PL6013	(turbo, centrifugal and axial flow types) wholly made of or lined with nickel alloy, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, aluminium or aluminium alloy, corrosion resistant to uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) or hydrogen fluoride (HF) and having a capacity of 1,000 litres per minute or greater, including compressor seals	C
B2	Specially designed or prepared equipment and components, for plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements, the following–
	(a) Fuel element chopping or shredding machines, ie remotely operated equipment to cut, chop, shred or shear irradiated nuclear reactor fuel assemblies, bundles or rods	C
	(b) Dissolvers (ie criticality safe tanks) specially designed or prepared for the dissolution of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel, which are capable of withstanding hot, highly corrosive liquids, and which can be remotely loaded and maintained	C
	(c) Counter-current solvent extractors and ion-exchange processing equipment, specially designed or prepared for use in a plant for the reprocessing of irradiated natural uranium, depleted uranium or special or other fissile materials	C
	(d) Process control instrumentation specially designed or prepared for monitoring or controlling the reprocessing of irradiated source or special or other fissile materials	C
	In this entry “plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements” includes equipment and components which normally come into direct contact with and directly control the irradiated fuel and the major nuclear material and fission product processing streams.
	Note 1: See also entry PL6016 in this Group.
	Note 2: For process control equipment for Lithium, see entry PL6010 in this Group.
PL6016	Specially designed or prepared equipment and components, for plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements, the following–
	(a) Holding or storage vessels resistant to the corrosive effects of nitric acid	C
	(b) Systems for the conversion of plutonium nitrate to plutonium oxide	C
	(c) Systems for the production of plutonium metal	C
	In this entry “plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements” includes equipment and components which normally come into direct contact with and directly control the irradiated fuel and the major nuclear material and fission product processing streams.
B3	Nuclear reactors, ie reactors capable of operation so as to maintain a controlled, self-sustaining fission chain reaction, and equipment and components specially designed or prepared for use in connection with a nuclear reactor, the following–
	(a) Pressure vessels and metal vessels as complete units or as parts therefor, which are specially designed or prepared to contain the core of a nuclear reactor and are capable of withstanding the operating pressure of the primary coolant, including the top plate for a reactor pressure vessel	C
	(b) Fuel element handling equipment, including reactor fuel charging and discharging machines	C
	(c) Control rods specially designed or prepared for the control of the reaction rate in a nuclear reactor, the neutron absorbing part and the support or suspension structures therefor, and control rod guide tubes	C
	(d) Electronic controls for controlling the power levels in nuclear reactors, including reactor control rod drive mechanisms and radiation detection and measuring instruments to determine neutron flux levels	C
	(e) Pressure tubes specially designed or prepared to contain fuel elements and the primary coolant in a nuclear reactor at an operating pressure in excess of 50 bars (atmospheres)	C
	(f) Coolant pumps specially designed or prepared for circulating the primary coolant of nuclear reactors	C
	(g) Internals specially designed or prepared for the operation of a nuclear reactor, including but not limited to core support structures, thermal shields, baffles, core grid plates and diffuser plates	C
	(h) Heat exchangers	C
	In this entry a “nuclear reactor” means the items within or attached directly to the reactor vessel, the equipment which controls the level of power in the core, and the components which normally contain, come into direct contact with or control the primary coolant of the reactor core.
B4	Plant specially designed for the fabrication of nuclear reactor fuel elements and specially designed equipment therefor	C
	Note: A plant for the fabrication of nuclear reactor fuel elements includes equipment which (1) normally comes into direct contact with or directly processes or controls the production flow of nuclear materials, (2) seals the nuclear material within the cladding, (3) checks the integrity of the cladding or the seal, or (4) checks the finish treatment of the solid fuel.
B5	Plant for the production of heavy water, deuterium or deuterium compounds, and specially designed or prepared equipment and components therefor, the following–
	(a) Plant for the production of heavy water, deuterium or deuterium compounds, the following–
	(1) Hydrogen sulphide-water exchange plant	C
	(2) Ammonia-hydrogen exchange plant	C
	(3) Hydrogen distillation plant	C
	(b) Equipment and components, the following: designed for–
	(1) Hydrogen sulphide-water exchange process–
	(A) Tray exchange towers	C
	(B) Hydrogen sulphide gas compressors	C
	(2) Ammonia-hydrogen exchange process–
	(A) High-pressure ammonia-hydrogen exchange towers	C
	(B) High-efficiency stage contactors	C
	(C) Submersible stage recirculation pumps	C
	(D) Ammonia crackers designed for pressures of more than 3 MPa (30 bar)	C
	(3) Hydrogen distillation process–
	(A) Hydrogen cryogenic distillation towers and cold boxes designed for operation below 35 K	C
	(B) Turboexpanders or turboexpander-compressor sets designed for operation below 35 K	C
	(4) Heavy water concentration process to reactor grade level (99.75% deuterium oxide)–
	(A) Water distillation towers containing specially designed packings	C
	(B) Ammonia distillation towers containing specially designed packings	C
	(C) Catalytic burners for conversion of fully enriched deuterium to heavy water	C
	(D) Infrared absorption analysers capable of on-line hydrogen-deuterium ratio analysis where deuterium concentrations are equal to or more than 90%	C
B6	Plant for the production of uranium hexafluoride (UF⁶ ) and specially designed or prepared equipment and components therefor, the following–
	(a) Plant for the production of UF⁶	C
	(b) Equipment and components specially designed or prepared for UF⁶ production, the following–
	(1) Fluorination and hydrofluorination screw and fluid bed reactors and flame towers	C
	(2) Distillation equipment for the purification of UF⁶	C
PL6015	Equipment for the handling or processing of UF⁶ , and specially designed components therefor made from or lined with UF⁶ resistant materials, the following–
	(a) Feed autoclaves for passing UF⁶ to gaseous diffusion or centrifuge cascades	C
	(b) Desublimers or cold traps used to remove UF⁶ from gaseous diffusion or centrifuge cascade	C
	(c) Product and tails stations for trapping and transferring UF⁶ into containers	C
	(d) Liquefaction stations where UF⁶ gas is compressed and cooled to form liquid UF⁶	C
	(e) Piping systems and header systems for handling UF⁶ within gaseous diffusion or centrifuge cascades	C
	(f) Vacuum manifolds, vacuum headers and vacuum pumps having a suction capacity of 5 m³/minute or more	C
C1	Neutron generator systems, including tubes, designed for operation without an external vacuum system and utilizing electrostatic acceleration to induce a tritium-deuterium nuclear reaction	C
C2	Power generating or propulsion equipment specially designed or adapted for use with military, space, marine or mobile nuclear reactors	C
C3	Electrolytic cells for the production of fluorine with a production capacity greater than 250 g of fluorine per hour	C
C4	Equipment specially designed or prepared for the separation of isotopes of lithium, the following–
	(a) Packed liquid-liquid exchange columns specially designed for lithium amalgams	C
	(b) Amalgam pumps	C
	(c) Amalgam electrolysis cells	C
	(d) Evaporators for concentrated lithium hydroxide solution	C
C5	Equipment specially designed for the production or recovery of tritium	C
C6	Frequency changers (converters or inverters) specially designed or prepared to supply motor stators for gas centrifuge enrichment, having all the following characteristics, and specially designed components therefor	C
	(a) A multi-phase electrical output of between 600 to 2,000 Hz;
	(b) Frequency control better than 0.1%;
	(c) Harmonic distortion of less than 2%;
	(d) An efficiency greater than 80%.
PL6007	Equipment specially designed for the manufacture or assembly of gas centrifuges capable of the enrichment or separation of isotopes, and specially designed parts, components and equipment therefor (For gas centrifuge plant, see entry B1, plant for separation of isotopes, in this Group.)	C
PL6008	Mass spectrometers and mass spectrometer sources designed for measuring the isotopic composition of uranium hexafluoride (UF⁶ ) gas, uranium and uranyl compounds	C
PL6009	Pressure gauges capable of measuring pressures to 100 Torr (13332.2 N/m² ) or less having sensing elements of nickel, nickel alloy, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, aluminium or aluminium alloy, corrosion resistant to uranium hexafluoride (UF⁶ ) or hydrogen fluoride (HF); and such sensing elements	C
PL6010	Process control equipment or instrumentation specially designed or prepared for monitoring or controlling the reprocessing of irradiated lithium	C

GROUP 3 — STRATEGIC GOODS AND TECHNOLOGIES NOT SPECIFIED IN GROUPS 1 AND 2

GROUP 3A

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