Explanatory note

lifted on: certain environmental chambers; didymium; certain flight instrumentation systems; simple infrared devices for entertainment; simple infrared devices for educational use; certain infrared communications equipment; certain programmable instruments exceeding 1 GHz; certain FFT signal analysers; medical equipment containing signal analysers; certain parametric or paramagnetic amplifiers for simple education use; certain photomultiplier tubes; first generation electron tubes; capacitors; certain digital oscilloscopes; certain transient recorders; electronic TV or video cameras for broadcast use; high speed plates for cameras; certain photographic film; optical grade quartz crystals; equipment for the production of liquid fluorine; containers for storage or transportation of liquid fluorine; nozzles, dies and extruder barrels;

reduced in scope on: surface effect vehicles (hovercraft); certain water screw propellor systems; fluorinated silicon rubber; fluorinated polyimides; fluorinated phosphazenes; fibrous and filamentary materials; underwater vision systems; photographic cameras specially designed or modified for underwater use; light systems specially designed or modified for underwater use; manned underwater vehicles; technology for the design and production of propellor blades; underwater ultrasonic communications equipment; acoustic systems for positioning vessels (including ships); ground communication radio equipment for use with temporary fixed services; Nd: YAG lasers; power meters; broadband noise sources; noise figure meters; logic analysers; digital voltage measuring equipment; PROM copiers; certain PROM programmers; radio transmitters using frequency synthesis; programmable signal analysers; non-programmable signal analysers; scaler network analysers; certain electronic tubes (valves); certain devices manufactured from super conducting materials; plug-in modules for analogue oscilloscopes; optical devices for cinema recording cameras; electronic framing cameras; quartz filter elements; temperature-compensated crystal oscillators;

redefined or clarified in relation to technological documents, and on: small arms and machine guns; military smoke producing appliances; ammunition, bombs, torpedoes, rockets and missiles; fire control system and sub-systems; tanks and vehicles specially designed for military purposes; toxicological agents and tear gas; vessels (including ships) of war and special naval equipment; aircraft and helicopters; unmanned airborne vehicles; aero-engines and aircraft or helicopter equipment, associated equipment and components; military infrared, thermal imaging and image intensifier equipment; external fittings, coatings and treatments for the suppression of acoustic, radar, infrared and other emissions specially designed for military use; equipment and technology for theproduction of goods specified in Group 1; cryogenic and superconductive equipment and components; electrically triggered shutters; directed energy weapons (DEW) systems; vacuum pump systems; reinforced tubing; submersible systems; deep submergence vehicles; tilt wing and tilt rotor aircraft; compasses, gyroscopes, accelerometers and inertial equipment; marine or terrestrial acoustic or ultrasonic systems or equipment; bit error rate test sets; microwave radio links; electronic equipment and instruments; instrument frequency synthesizers; signal analysers; swept frequency network analysers; microwave equipment; photo-multiplier tubes; electronic vacuum tubes (valves) and cathodes; software; electronic devices; circuits and systems manufactured from superconducting materials; oscilloscopes; cameras, components and photographic recording media; superconductive materials; base materials, non-fluorinated polymeric substances; syntactic foam; fibrous and filamentary materials; synthetic lubricating oils and greases;

extended in scope on: forgings and castings and semi-finished products; specially designed environmentaltest facilities; software for modelling or simulating military operation scenarios and Command, Communications, Control and Intelligence (C3I) applications; pump-jet systems; technology for aircraft and helicopters; borides of titanium; gaseous diffusion blowersand compressors;

introduced on: weapons using caseless ammunition; tyre inflation pressure control systems and large deflection suspensions specially designed or modified for military use; specialisedequipment for simulating military scenarios; field engineer equipment specially designed for use in a combat zone; kinetic energy weapon systems; air independent power systems for submersibles; general purpose data communications protocol analysers, testers and simulators for X.25; certain high resolution CCD video cameras; certain cameras incorporating detector arrays; UF6-resistant fully fluorinated hydrocarbon polymers; radomes.