# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1749 of 7 October 2020 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items, Division: ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS ANNEX

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

An acronym or abbreviation, when used as a defined term, are found in ‘Definitions of Terms used in this Annex’.
Acronym or meaning abbreviation
ABEC
Annular Bearing Engineers Committee
ABMA
American Bearing Manufacturers Association
ADC
Analogue-to-Digital Converter
AGMA
American Gear Manufacturers’ Association
AHRS
Attitude and Heading Reference Systems
AISI
American Iron and Steel Institute
ALE
Atomic Layer Epitaxy
ALU
Arithmetic Logic Unit
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
APP
Adjusted Peak Performance
APU
Auxiliary Power Unit
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
ATC
Air Traffic Control
BJT
Bipolar Junction Transistors
BPP
Beam Parameter Product
BSC
Base Station Controller
CAD
Computer-Aided-Design
CAS
Chemical Abstracts Service
CCD
Charge Coupled Device
CDU
Control and Display Unit
CEP
Circular Error Probable
CMM
Coordinate Measuring Machine
CMOS
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CNTD
Controlled Nucleation Thermal Deposition
CPLD
Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPU
Central Processing Unit
CVD
Chemical Vapour Deposition
CW
Chemical Warfare
CW (for lasers)
Continuous Wave
DAC
Digital-to-Analogue Converter
DANL
Displayed Average Noise Level
DBRN
Data-Base Referenced Navigation
DDS
Direct Digital Synthesizer
DMA
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
DME
Distance Measuring Equipment
DMOSFET
Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
DS
Directionally Solidified
EB
Exploding Bridge
EB-PVD
Electron Beam Physical Vapour Deposition
EBW
Exploding Bridge Wire
ECM
Electro-Chemical Machining
EDM
Electrical Discharge Machines
EFI
Exploding Foil Initiators
EIRP
Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EMP
Electromagnetic Pulse
ENOB
Effective Number of Bits
ERF
Electrorheological Finishing
ERP
Effective Radiated Power
ESD
Electrostatic Discharge
ETO
Emitter Turn-Off Thyristor
ETT
Electrical Triggering Thyristor
EU
European Union
EUV
Extreme Ultraviolet
FADEC
Full Authority Digital Engine Control
FFT
Fast Fourier Transform
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
FPIC
Field Programmable Interconnect
FPLA
Field Programmable Logic Array
FPO
Floating Point Operation
FWHM
Full-Width Half-Maximum
GLONASS
Global Navigation Satellite System
GNSS
Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS
Global Positioning System
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
GTO
Gate Turn-off Thyristor
HBT
Hetero-Bipolar Transistors
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HEMT
High Electron Mobility Transistor
ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization
IEC
International Electro-technical Commission
IED
Improvised Explosive Device
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IFOV
Instantaneous-Field-Of-View
IGBT
Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
IGCT
Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor
IHO
International Hydrographic Organization
ILS
Instrument Landing System
IMU
Inertial Measurement Unit
INS
Inertial Navigation System
IP
Internet Protocol
IRS
Inertial Reference System
IRU
Inertial Reference Unit
ISA
International Standard Atmosphere
ISAR
Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
JT
Joule-Thomson
LIDAR
Light Detection and Ranging
LIDT
Laser Induced Damage Threshold
LOA
Length Overall
LRU
Line Replaceable Unit
LTT
Light Triggering Thyristor
MLS
Microwave Landing Systems
MMIC
Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
MOCVD
Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposition
MOSFET
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MPM
Microwave Power Module
MRF
Magnetorheological Finishing
MRF
Minimum Resolvable Feature size
MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MTBF
Mean-Time-Between-Failures
MTTF
Mean-Time-To-Failure
NA
Numerical Aperture
NDT
Non-Destructive Test
NEQ
Net Explosive Quantity
NIJ
National Institute of Justice
OAM
Operations, Administration or Maintenance
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
PAI
Polyamide-imides
PAR
Precision Approach Radar
PCL
Passive Coherent Location
PDK
Process Design Kit
PIN
Personal Identification Number
PMR
Private Mobile Radio
PVD
Physical Vapour Deposition
ppm
parts per million
QAM
Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation
QE
Quantum Efficiency
RAP
Reactive Atom Plasmas
RF
Radio Frequency
rms
Root Mean Square
RNC
Radio Network Controller
RNSS
Regional Navigation Satellite System
ROIC
Read-out Integrated Circuit
S-FIL
Step and Flash Imprint Lithography
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar
SAS
Synthetic Aperture Sonar
SC
Single Crystal
SCR
Silicon Controlled Rectifier
SFDR
Spurious Free Dynamic Range
SHPL
Super High Powered Laser
SLAR
Sidelooking Airborne Radar
SOI
Silicon-on-Insulator
SQUID
Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
SRA
Shop Replaceable Assembly
SRAM
Static Random Access Memory
SSB
Single Sideband
SSR
Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSS
Side Scan Sonar
TIR
Total Indicated Reading
TVR
Transmitting Voltage Response
u
Atomic Mass Unit
UPR
Unidirectional Positioning Repeatability
UV
Ultraviolet
UTS
Ultimate Tensile Strength
VJFET
Vertical Junction Field Effect Transistor
VOR
Very High Frequency Omni-directional Range
WHO
World Health Organization
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1749/annex/I/division/LIST/division/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1749/annex-I/division-LIST/division-8
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