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Manufacturing and trade in firearms for civilian purposes employs around 150 000 people in the EU. In 2020, the Commission adopted a 2020-2025 action plan on firearms trafficking to help curb the illegal flows of firearms, and ammunition, while also strengthening the legal market. The adoption of Directive (EU) 2021/555 on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons in 2021was the first legislative outcome of the plan. In October 2022, the Commission presented a proposal for a regulation ...

Certain goods and technologies have legitimate civilian applications but can also be used for military purposes; so-called 'dual-use' goods are subject to the European Union's export control regime. The regime has just been revised, mainly to take account of significant technological developments, increase transparency and create a more level playing field among EU Member States. The proposed regulation will recast the regulation in force since 2009. Among other elements, the proposal explicitly ...

Bestimmte Güter und Technologien ermöglichen legitime zivile Anwendungen, können aber auch für militärische Zwecke eingesetzt werden. Sie werden als „Güter mit doppeltem Verwendungszweck“ bezeichnet und unterliegen der Ausfuhrkontrollregelung der Europäischen Union. Die Regelung wird derzeit überarbeitet, hauptsächlich um wesentlichen technologischen Entwicklungen Rechnung zu tragen, die Transparenz zu steigern und gerechtere Wettbewerbsbedingungen unter den EU-Mitgliedstaaten zu schaffen. Mit dem ...

In the midst of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the European Commission issued an implementing regulation requiring authorisations for exports of personal protection equipment (PPE), effective as of 15 March 2020 for a six-week period. A second implementing regulation extended the period for another 30 days. The latter reduced the range of products subject to authorisation to three categories, namely mouth-nose protection, protective spectacles and visors, and protective garments; gloves ...

The EU’s annual report on arms export control presently lags behind the national reports of many countries. The introduction of a searchable online database will be a substantial step in increasing the user-friendliness of the report. This paper makes recommendations with regard to readability, comprehensiveness and comparability. Perhaps the principal recommendation is that steps be taken to harmonise the data provided under the categories ‘licensed value’ and ‘actual exports’, which are presently ...

In view of the upcoming review of the EU Common Position 944/2008/CFSP on arms exports, the aim of the workshop was to provide an overview of the context in which this process will take place together with a set of possible outcomes the review could produce. The speakers from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), first defined the context by describing how, since the EU Common Position was adopted in 2008, EU member states performed in terms of military expenditure, arms production ...

Der Gemeinsame Standpunkt der EU zu Waffenausfuhren ist die einzige auf regionaler Ebene getroffene rechtsverbindliche Regelung zur Ausfuhr konventioneller Waffen. Während der Gemeinsame Standpunkt den Informationsaustausch und die Transparenz der Waffenausfuhren der Mitgliedstaaten verbessert hat, gibt es weiterhin Spielraum, die Konvergenz der nationalen Rüstungsexportpolitik zu erhöhen und die in dem EU-Text festgelegten Kriterien genauer einzuhalten. Das Parlament wird sich voraussichtlich während ...

The aim of the workshop was to provide an overview of the EU arms export control system as well as options for improvement. The main speaker, Dr Sibylle Bauer, Director of the Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), provided a brief overview of the main elements of the EU Common Position 2008/944/CFSP and then focused on aspects related to strengthening implementation of the eight criteria of the Common Position, the enhancement of ...

Im Rahmen des Ausfuhrkontrollsystems müssen die Mitgliedstaaten allgemeine internationale Verpflichtungen zur Bekämpfung der Verbreitung von nuklearen, biologischen und chemischen Waffen sowie von anderen potenziell militärisch anwendbaren Gütern einhalten. Diese Verpflichtung gilt auch für „Güter mit doppeltem Verwendungszweck“, die für zivile und militärische Zwecke verwendet werden können. Nach dem bestehenden System zur Kontrolle der Ausfuhren von Gütern mit doppeltem Verwendungszweck ist eine ...

This infographic aims to present data on arms exports licensed by EU Member States for the year 2013. The source of data is the 16th Annual Report on arms exports, published by the Council in March 2015, under the common rules governing control of exports of military technology and equipment. It categorises arms based on the 22 categories of military technology and equipment of the EU Common Military List. Data refer to 26 EU Member States, as figures for Cyprus and Greece are not available. This ...