EU Updates Dual-Use Export Controls to Align With Multilateral Regimes
The EU this week updated its dual-use export control list to align it with decisions taken by the multilateral Wassenaar Arrangement, Missile Technology Control Regime, Australia Group and Nuclear Supplier Group in 2024. The update "also includes commitments that Member States have accepted, as members of the Wassenaar Arrangement, to control additional items uniformly," the European Commission said.
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The updates include new controls related to quantum technology, including quantum computers, “electronic components designed to work at cryogenic temperatures, parametric signal amplifiers, cryogenic cooling systems” and “cryogenic wafer probers.” New controls were also added for certain semiconductor manufacturing and testing equipment and materials -- including “Atomic Layer Deposition equipment, equipment and materials for epitaxial deposition, lithography equipment, Extreme Ultra-Violet pellicles, masks and reticles, Scanning Electron Microscope equipment" and etching equipment -- as well as “advanced computing integrated circuits and electronic assemblies such as Field Programmable Logic Devices and Systems.”
Other updates involve coatings for "high temperature applications"; additive manufacturing machines and related materials (such as inoculants for powders); peptide synthesizers; and the “modification of certain control parameters and update of certain technical definitions and descriptions.”
The changes will make sure the EU has “effective” controls over new or emerging technologies, the European Commission said. “Uniform EU-level controls guarantee effectiveness and transparency while maintaining the Union’s competitiveness and a level-playing-field for economic operators.”
The updates will take effect after a “two-month scrutiny period” by the European Parliament and European Council.