{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-43/annex/division-1/annotation/44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-43/annex/division-1/annotation/44.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/43",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the Community (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-43",
  "path": "annex/division/1/annotation/44",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "Note",
  "heading": "ML18.a. and ML18.b. include the following equipment:",
  "text": "a.. Continuous nitrators;\nb.. Centrifugal testing apparatus or equipment having any of the following:\n1.. Driven by a motor or motors having a total rated horsepower of more than 298 kW (400 hp);\n2.. Capable of carrying a payload of 113 kg or more; or\n3.. Capable of exerting a centrifugal acceleration of 8 g or more on a payload of 91 kg or more;\nc.. Dehydration presses;\nd.. Screw extruders specially designed or modified for military \"explosive\" extrusion;\ne.. Cutting machines for the sizing of extruded \"propellants\";\nf.. Sweetie barrels (tumblers) 1,85 m or more in diameter and having over 227 kg product capacity;\ng.. Continuous mixers for solid \"propellants\";\nh.. Fluid energy mills for grinding or milling the ingredients of military \"explosives\";\ni.. Equipment to achieve both sphericity and uniform particle size in metal powder listed in ML8.c.8.;\nj.. Convection current converters for the conversion of materials listed in ML8.c.3.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Directive (EU) 2019/514 of 14 March 2019 amending Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the list of defence-related products (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/43/annex/division/1/annotation/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:13.244754+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}