# Council Regulation (EU) No 264/2012 of 23 March 2012 amending Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran, Annex III

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The following text shall be added as Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 359/2011:
"ANNEX IV
Equipment, technology and software referred to in Articles 1b and 1c
General Note
Notwithstanding the contents of this Annex, it shall not apply to:
(a) equipment, technology or software which are specified in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) 428/2009 or the Common Military List; or
(b) software which is designed for installation by the user without further substantial support by the supplier and which is generally available to the public by being sold from stock at retail selling points, without restriction, by means of:
(i) over the counter transactions;
(ii) mail order transactions;
(iii) electronic transactions; or
(iv) telephone order transactions; or
(c) software which is in the public domain.
The categories A, B, C, D and E refer to the categories referred to in Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
The 'equipment, technology and software' referred to in Article 1b is:
A.. List of equipment
Deep Packet Inspection equipment
Network Interception equipment including Interception Management Equipment (IMS) and Data Retention Link Intelligence equipment
Radio Frequency monitoring equipment
Network and Satellite jamming equipment
Remote Infection equipment
Speaker recognition/processing equipment
IMSI, MSISDN, IMEI, TMSI interception and monitoring equipment
Tactical SMS /GSM /GPS /GPRS /UMTS /CDMA /PSTN interception and monitoring equipment
DHCP /SMTP, GTP information interception and monitoring equipment
Pattern Recognition and Pattern Profiling equipment
Remote Forensics equipment
Semantic Processing Engine equipment
WEP and WPA code breaking equipment
Interception equipment for VoIP proprietary and standard protocol
B.. Not used
C.. Not used
D.. "Software" for the "development", "production" or "use" of the equipment specified in A above.
E.. "Technology" for the "development", "production" or "use" of the equipment specified in A above.
Equipment, technology and software falling within these categories is within the scope of this Annex only to the extent that it falls within the general description 'internet, telephone and satellite communications interception and monitoring systems'.
For the purpose of this Annex 'monitoring' means acquisition, extraction, decoding, recording, processing, analysis and archiving call content or network data.".

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/264/annex/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-264/annex-III
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