In this issue:
Export controls: List of dual-use goods updated by EU Commission
The update entered into force on 31 December 2019 and brings the list of dual-use products in line with the decisions taken under the international export control agreement in 2018.
New products were added to the export control list, such as:
- software designed to restore operation of microcomputers/microprocessors after Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) or Electrostatic Discharge disruption (ESD) (3D005);
- masks and reticles designed for optical sensors (6B002);
- air-launch platforms for space launch vehicles (9A004g);
- other discrete microwave transistors (3A001b3f);
- signal generators with specified 'Radio Frequency modulation bandwidths’ (3A002d5).
Also, certain amendments were brought on product definition and control entry:
- Amendment to control entry for hydrophones operating over 1000 m (6A001a2a6);
- Amendment to control entry for multi-layer mask control (3B001h);
- Amendment to control entry for gear machine tool, including a cascaded structure for the control criteria (2B003);
- Deletion of entry for technology for diffusion bonding for gas turbine engine components (9E003a7).
What we recommend?
If you carry out activities in the field of aviation/aerospace, automotive, electronics or IT, we recommend you to asses the impact on the new changes on your product classifications from an export control perspective.
Prepared by:
Mihai Petre – Director, Indirect Tax
For additional information, please contact:
Alex Milcev – Partner, Tax & Law Leader Romania
Ernst & Young SRL
Bucharest Tower Center Building,
22nd Floor, 15-17 Ion Mihalache Blvd.,
Sector 1, 011171, Bucharest, Romania
Tel: (40-21) 402 4000, Fax: (40-21) 310 7124
Email: office@ro.ey.com
