Wassenaar Posts Export Control Changes, Clarifications From 2024 Plenary
The multilateral Wassenaar Arrangement this month posted a summary of export control changes made during the group’s Dec. 4-5 plenary meeting in Austria, covering editorial changes, clarifications and updated control parameters for various categories under its list of dual-use goods and technologies. Wassenaar’s plenary chair, held this year by Italy, said member states adopted new controls involving suborbital spacecraft and their components as well as technologies used to make metal alloy powders for “high-performance” 3D printing of dual-use technologies. The group also agreed to clarify controls over systems for submersible vehicles, directed energy weapons, epitaxy-covered substrates for semiconductor manufacturing and more.
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Wassenaar states also used the forum to share information on export control best practices, it said, including around licensing and enforcement practices for transfers of arms and dual-use goods and technologies. They also “engaged in targeted outreach activities” with countries that aren’t Wassenaar members “in order to promote effective export controls worldwide.”
Beginning Jan. 1, Japan will become the plenary chair while Australia will assume the general working group chair, the Netherlands will assume the experts group chair, and Canada will continue to serve as chair of the licensing and enforcement officers meeting.