{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-goods-control-amendment-no-5-order-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2515",
  "legislation_title": "The Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No. 5) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-goods-control-amendment-no-5-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1992:\n1 by relaxing control in relation to certain dual–use goods as follows:\nstorage integrated circuits, field programmable logic arrays, travelling wave tubes, acoustic wave devices, primary cells and batteries;\nrecording equipment, disk drives and solid state computer storage, modems;\nacoustic beacons, enroute air traffic control radar and related use software;\n2 by extending controls on:\nchemical manufacturing equipment;\nradiation hardened integrated circuits, Fast Fourier Transform integrated circuits;\nwaveform digitisers and transient analysers;\ncivil aircraft engines, components and equipment, to include those for aircraft with an all up weight of between 680 kg and 390 kg, for export to Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria or South Africa only;\n3 by removing control on certain dual–use goods as follows:\nflexible waveguides:\ncertain multifunctional focussed ion–beam semiconductor processing equip– ment, electronic assembly test equipment;\nmeteorological (weather) radar;\ncivil aircraft having a maximum all up weight of between 390 kg and 680 kg, for export to destinations other than Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria or South Africa;\n4 by introducing control on:\ncertain plant pathogens, technology relating to the use of chemical or biological manufacturing equipment;\nmixers and converters designed to extend the frequency range of signal analysers, network analysers or microwave test receivers beyond their control limits;\ntechnology for the development or production of substrates of diamond films for electronic components;\ncertain non–contact optical measuring equipment;\nsoftware for modelling, simulation or design integration of guidance sets usable in missiles;\n5 by redefining or clarifying the scope of the following:\nthe definitions of “deformable mirrors”, “maximum bit transfer rate” and “microprocessor microcircuit”;\nentries ML6, ML8, ML9, ML10, 1C351, 1C352, 1C353, 1C992, 2B351, 3A001, 3A002, 3B007 (re–designated as 3B006), 3C002, 4A102, 6A001, 6A002, 6A004, 6C002, 6E003, 7E101, 9A110, 9D103;\nthe Notes to sub–Category 3A (electronic equipment, assemblies and components) the Technical Note to Category 4 (computers);\n6 by re–designating entries 3B006 to 3B009 as 3B005 to 3B008;\n7 by introducing definitions for “isolated live cultures” and “focal plane arrays”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2515/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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