{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-258/annex-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-258/annex-I.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2012/258",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 258/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 implementing Article 10 of the United Nations’ Protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UN Firearms Protocol), and establishing export authorisation, and import and transit measures for firearms, their parts and components and ammunition",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-258",
  "path": "annex/I",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "List of firearms, their parts and essential components and ammunition",
  "text": "Description\nCommodity Code\n1\nSemi-automatic or repeating short firearms\nex 9302 00 00\n2\nSingle-shot short firearms with centre-fire percussion\nex 9302 00 00\n3\nSingle-shot short firearms with rimfire percussion whose overall length is less than 28 cm\nex 9302 00 00\n4\nSemi-automatic long firearms whose magazine and chamber can together hold more than three rounds\nex 9303 20 10\nex 9303 20 95\nex 9303 30 00\nex 9303 90 00\n5\nSemi-automatic long firearms whose magazine and chamber cannot together hold more than three rounds, where the loading device is removable or where it is not certain that the weapon cannot be converted, with ordinary tools, into a weapon whose magazine and chamber can together hold more than three rounds.\nex 9303 20 10\nex 9303 20 95\nex 9303 30 00\nex 9303 90 00\n6\nRepeating and semi-automatic long firearms with smooth-bore barrels not exceeding 60 cm in length\nex 9303 20 10\nex 9303 20 95\n7\nSemi-automatic firearms for civilian use which resemble weapons with automatic mechanisms\nex 9302 00 00\nex 9303 20 10\nex 9303 20 95\nex 9303 30 00\nex 9303 90 00\n8\nRepeating long firearms other than those listed in point 6\nex 9303 20 95\nex 9303 30 00\nex 9303 90 00\n9\nLong firearms with single-shot rifled barrels\nex 9303 30 00\nex 9303 90 00\n10\nSemi-automatic long firearms other than those in points 4 to 7\nex 9303 90 00\n11\nSingle-shot short firearms with rimfire percussion whose overall length is not less than 28 cm\nex 9302 00 00\n12\nSingle-shot long firearms with smooth-bore barrels\n9303 10 00\nex 9303 20 10\nex 9303 20 95\n13\nParts specifically designed for a firearm and essential to its operation, including a barrel, frame or receiver, slide or cylinder, bolt or breech block, and any device designed or adapted to diminish the sound caused by firing a firearm.\nAny essential component of such firearms: the breech-closing mechanism, the chamber and the barrel of a firearm which, being separate objects, are included in the category of the firearms on which they are or are intended to be mounted\nex 9305 10 00\nex 9305 21 00\nex 9305 29 00\nex 9305 99 00\n14\nAmmunition: the complete round or the components thereof, including cartridge cases, primers, propellant powder, bullets or projectiles, that are used in a firearm, provided that those components are themselves subject to authorisation in the relevant Member State\nex 3601 00 00\nex 3603 00 90\nex 9306 21 00\nex 9306 29 00\nex 9306 30 10\nex 9306 30 90\nex 9306 90 90\n15\nCollections and collectors’ pieces of historical interest\nAntiques of an age exceeding 100 years\nex 9705 00 00\nex 9706 00 00\nFor the purposes of this Annex:\n(a)‘short firearm’ means a firearm with a barrel not exceeding 30 centimetres or whose overall length does not exceed 60 centimetres;\n(b)‘long firearm’ means any firearm other than a short firearm;\n(c)‘automatic firearm’ means a firearm which reloads automatically each time a round is fired and can fire more than one round with one pull on the trigger;\n(d)‘semi-automatic firearm’ means a firearm which reloads automatically each time a round is fired and can fire only one round with one pull on the trigger;\n(e)‘repeating firearm’ means a firearm which, after a round has been fired, is designed to be reloaded from a magazine or cylinder by means of a manually-operated action;\n(f)‘single-shot firearm’ means a firearm with no magazine which is loaded before each shot by the manual insertion of a round into the chamber or a loading recess at the breech of the barrel.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade etc. in Dual-Use Items and Firearms etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/771), regs. 1, 4(18) (with reg. 6) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1502, regs. 2(3), 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Based on the Combined Nomenclature of goods as laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/258/annex/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:30.992675+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."
}