Council Regulation (EC) No 458/2001 of 6 March 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 with regard to the list of controlled dual-use items and technology when exported
Date: 2001-03-06
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU Member State, customs regulations, dual-use good, exchange of information, export monitoring, technology transfer

7.3.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 65/19

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 458/2001

of 6 March 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 with regard to the list of controlled dual-use items and
technology when exported

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

Community level within a reasonable time scale in order
to facilitate exports for which export controls are no
longer considered necessary at multilateral

level.

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 should be amended
accordingly,

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Under Council Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 of 22
June 2000 setting up a Community regime for the
control of exports of dual-use items and technology (1),
dual-use items
(including software and technology)
should be subject to effective control when they are
exported from the Community.

to enable

the Member States

In order
and the
Community to comply with their international commit-
ments, Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 estab-
lishes the common list of dual-use items and technology
referred to in Article 3 of that Regulation, that imple-
ments internationally agreed dual-use controls, including
the Wassenaar Arrangement,
the Missile Technology
Control Regime (MTCR), the Nuclear Suppliers Group
(NSG), the Australia Group and the Chemical Weapons
Convention (CWC).

Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 establishes
that Annex I is to be updated in conformity with the
relevant obligations and commitments, and any modifi-
cation thereof, that each Member State has accepted as a
member of the international non-proliferation regimes
and export control arrangements, or by ratification of
relevant international treaties.

The Participating States in the Wassenaar Arrangement
decided on 1 December 2000 to modify control para-
meters in Categories 3, 4 and 5-Part 2, which are
included in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000.
These amendments represent significant liberalisation of
that should be implemented at
control parameters,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 is hereby amended
as follows:

1. Category 3 — Electronics, entry 3A001.a.3.a., ‘3 500’ shall

be replaced by ‘6 500’.

2. Category 4 — Computers, entry 4A003.b., ‘6 500’ shall be

replaced by ‘28 000’.

3. Category 4 — Computers, entry 4A003.d., ‘3 000 000’ shall

be replaced by ‘200 000 000’.

4. Category 4 — Computers, entry 4A003.g.,

‘80 Mbyte/s’

shall be replaced by ‘1.25 Gbyte/s’.

5. Category 5-Part 2 — Information Security, Note 3: Crypto-

graphy Note shall be amended as follows:

(a) paragraph d. shall be deleted.

(b) — paragraph e. shall be renumbered as paragraph d.,
— the terms ‘described in paragraphs a. to d. above’
shall be replaced by ‘described in paragraphs a. to c.
above’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the fifth day following
that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 6 March 2001.

For the Council

The President

I. THALÉN

(1) OJ L 159, 30.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2889/2000 (OJ L 336, 30.12.2000, p. 14).