{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/532",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Amendments to Category 6 - Sensors and Lasers",
  "text": "(1) The section headed Category 6 - Sensors and Lasers is amended as follows.\n(2) In the section headed 6A Systems, Equipment and Components—\n(a) in entry 6A001.a.1.a.—\n(i) before entry 6A001.a.1.a.1., insert—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A001.a.1.a., ‘enhancement’ includes the ability to compensate by external means.”;\n(ii) at the end of entry 6A001.a.1.a.1., for the Technical Notes, substitute—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A001.a.1.a.1.c., ’sounding resolution’ is the swath width (degrees) divided by the maximum number of soundings per swath.”;\n(b) in entry 6A001.a.2.b.2., omit the Technical Note;\n(c) at the end of entry 6A001.a.2.b.8., for the Technical Note, substitute—\n“\nTechnical Notes:\nFor the purposes of 6A001.a.2.b.:\n1.\nHydrophone arrays consist of a number of hydrophone providing multiple acoustic output channels.\n2.\n‘Able to be modified’ means having provisions to allow a change of the wiring or interconnections to alter hydrophone group spacing or operating depth limits. These provisions are: spare wiring exceeding 10% of the number of wires, hydrophone group spacing adjustment blocks or internal depth limiting devices that are adjustable or that control more than one hydrophone group.\n”;\n(d) in entry 6A002.a.2.b.2.b., for “‘charge multiplication’” substitute ““charge multiplication””;\n(e) in Note 2 to entry 6A002.a.3., in paragraph c.2., for “in place.” substitute “in place;”;\n(f) after paragraph d to Note 2 of entry 6A002.a.3, omit the Technical Note;\n(g) in entry 6A002.b.1., for “Instantaneous-Field-Of-View” substitute “Instantaneous Field of View”;\n(h) in entry 6A002.c.3., for “Solid state ” substitute “Solid-state”;\n(i) in the Technical Note to entry 6A002.f., after ““focal plane array”” omit “(“FPA”)”;\n(j) in entry 6A003.b.1. —\n(i) for “solid state sensors” substitute “solid-state sensors”;\n(ii) after “10 nm” omit “,”;\n(k) in entry 6A003.b.1.a., for “solid state”, in each place it occurs, substitute “solid-state”;\n(l) in entry 6A003.b.2.a., after “10 nm” omit “,”;\n(m) in Note 3 to entry 6A003.b.4.—\n(i) in paragraph b.1. for “Instantaneous-Field-of-View” substitute “Instantaneous Field of View”;\n(ii) at the end of paragraph b.1., insert—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A003.b.4. Note 3.b.1., ‘Instantaneous Field of View (IFOV) is the lesser figure of the ‘Horizontal IFOV’ or the ‘Vertical IFOV’.\n‘Horizontal IFOV’ = horizontal Field of View (FOV)/number of horizontal detector elements\n‘Vertical IFOV’ = vertical Field of View (FOV)/number of vertical detector elements.”;\n(iii) at paragraph b.4.a., for “field-of-view” substitute “Field of View”;\n(iv) omit the Technical Notes;\n(n) in Note 4 to entry 6A003.b.4., at paragraph a.1.d., after “equipment;” omit “and”;\n(o) at the end of Note 4 to entry 6A003.b.4., insert—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A003.b.4., ‘direct view’ refers to an imaging camera operating in the infrared spectrum that presents a visual image to a human observer using a near-to-eye micro display incorporating any light-security mechanism.”;\n(p) in entry 6A004.a.1., for “Technical Note:” substitute “Technical Notes:”;\n(q) in entry 6A005—\n(i) in Note 2, for “‘non-repetitive pulsed’” substitute ““non-repetitive pulsed””;\n(ii) omit the Technical Note to Note 2;\n(iii) for Note 6, substitute—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A005.a. and 6A005.b., ‘single transverse mode’ refers to “lasers” with a beam profile having an M2-factor of less than 1,3, while ‘multiple transverse mode’ refers to “lasers” with a beam profile having an M2-factor equal to or greater than 1,3.”;\n(r) before entry 6A005.a., omit the Technical Note beginning with “For the purposes of 6A005., ‘wall-plug”;\n(s) in entry 6A005.a.6.b.1., for “‘Wall-plug efficiency’” substitute ““Wall-plug efficiency””;\n(t) in Note 1 to entry 6A005.a.6.b., for “note” substitute “Note”;\n(u) in entry 6A005.b.—\n(i) for ““pulsed lasers”” substitute “‘pulsed lasers’”;\n(ii) at the end, insert—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A005.b., a ‘pulsed laser’ is a “laser” having a “pulse duration” that is less than or equal to 0,25 seconds.”;\n(v) in entry 6A005.b.6., for “‘Wall-plug efficiency’”, in each place it occurs, substitute ““Wall-plug efficiency””;\n(w) at the end of entry 6A005.d.1., insert—\n“\nTechnical Notes:\nFor the purposes of 6A005.d.1.:\n1.\nSemiconductor “lasers” are commonly called “laser” diodes.\n2.\nA ‘bar’ (also called a semiconductor “laser” ‘bar’, a “laser” diode ‘bar’ or diode ‘bar’) consists of multiple semiconductor “lasers” in a one-dimensional array.\n3.\nA ‘stacked array’ consists of multiple ‘bars’ forming a two-dimensional array of semiconductor “lasers”.\n”;\n(x) in entry 6A005.d.1.b.1.—\n(i) for “1 400” substitute “780”;\n(ii) after “power” omit “,”;\n(y) for entries 6A005.d.1.b.2 and 6A005.d.1.b.3., substitute—\n“\n2.\nWavelength equal to or greater than 780 nm and less than 1 100 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 30 W;\n3.\nWavelength equal to or greater than 1 100 nm and less than 1 400 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 25 W;\n4.\nWavelength equal to or greater than 1 400 nm and less than 1 900 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 2,5 W; or\n5.\nWavelength equal to or greater than 1 900 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 1 W;\n”.\n(z) in entry 6A005.d.1.e., omit the Technical Notes;\n(z1) in entry 6A005.d.5.—\n(i) for ““Chemical lasers”” substitute “‘Chemical lasers’”;\n(ii) at the end, insert—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A005.d.5., ‘chemical laser’ is a “laser” in which the excited species is produced by the output energy from a chemical reaction.”;\n(z2) in entry 6A005.d.6., for “‘Non-repetitive pulsed’” substitute ““Non-repetitive pulsed”” and for “Nd: glass” substitute “Nd:glass”;\n(z3) in entry 6A005.e.3.c.2., for “10 kW/cm2.” substitute “10 kW/cm2;”;\n(z4) in the N.B. to entry 6A005.f., for “Super-High” substitute “Super High”;\n(z5) in entry 6A008.h.2.—\n(i) for ““Radar frequency agility”” substitute “‘Radar frequency agility’”;\n(ii) at the end, insert—\n“Technical Note:\nFor the purposes of 6A008.h., ‘radar frequency agility’ applies to any technique which changes, in a pseudo-random sequence, the carrier frequency of a pulsed radar transmitter between pulses or between groups of pulses by an amount equal to or larger than the pulse bandwidth.”;\n(z6) in the Technical Notes to entry 6A008—\n(i) after the heading “Technical Notes:”, on a new line insert “For the purposes of 6A008:”;\n(ii) in paragraph 1, for “For the purposes of 6A008, ‘marine” substitute “ ‘Marine”;\n(iii) in paragraph 2, for “For the purposes of 6A008, ‘vessel” substitute “ ‘Vessel”;\n(z7) in the Note to entry 6A225—\n(i) for “Interferometers) and PDV” substitute “Interferometers), PDV”;\n(ii) at the end, insert “and microwave velocity interferometers, including optic-microwave mixing velocimeters”.\n(3) In the section headed 6C Materials—\n(a) in entry 6C004.b.4., after “diphosphide);” omit “or”;\n(b) in the Technical Note to entry 6C005.b., at the end, omit “1.”.\n(4) In the section headed 6D Software, in entry 6D003.c., after “Note 3.a.” insert “;”.",
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