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Explanatory note

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This Order amends the Export Control Order 2008. Article 3 adds electro-statically powered explosive detectors to the list of dual-use goods made subject to United Kingdom export controls for strategic reasons. The prohibited destinations are Afghanistan and Iraq.

At the same time, article 2 ensures that such goods and other nationally controlled dual-use goods, software and technology cannot be sent to prohibited destinations via a third country (the Export Control Order 2008 and its predecessors only prohibited exports and transfers via the customs territory of what was then the European Community).

An Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website.