European Commission Publishes Dual Use Export Controls 2020 Review
The European Commission sent its 2020 report on export controls of dual-use items to the European Parliament and Council on Feb. 2, detailing the changes made to the export control regime, export control contingency plans for Brexit, activities of the Dual-Use Coordination Group and EU export controls data. The report covers implementation of the regulation during 2019. Of note, the report laid out the changes to the 2019 EU control list, including new controls on dual-use items such as discrete microwave transistors, signal generators with specified “Radio Frequency modulation bandwidths,” and software designed to restore operation of microcomputers after Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) or Electrostatic Discharge Disruption (ESD); for masks and reticles designed for optical sensors; and air-launch platforms for space launch vehicles.
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Highlights from the collected export control stats include that in 2019 the controls applied to about 1,858 dual-use items that related to about 1,000 customs commodities, “including chemicals, metals and non-metallic mineral products, computers, electronic and optical products, electrical equipment, machinery, vehicles and transport equipment etc. and typically fall at the high-tech end of this large, mixed commodity area.” The report's statistical estimates also found that the U.S. was overwhelmingly the recipient of dual-use exports, with China as a distant second.