Explanatory note

This Order mades changes to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 (“the 1994 Order”) consequential on the making of the Dual-Use Items (Export Control) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/…), which revoke and replace the Dual-Use and Related Goods (Export Control) Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”) on the day this Order comes into force.

Article 2(1) has the effect that Part III of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Order no longer has effect in relation to goods in transit as if it included certain goods referred to in regulation 14 of the 1996 Regulations.

Article 2(2) inserts a substitute Article 2 into the 1994 Order. Paragraph (2) of the substitute Article contains the control, on goods which are or may be intended to be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction programmes, hitherto contained in Regulation 4(2)(b) of the 1996 Regulations and applicable to goods other than dual-use goods and (under regulation 13(3) of the 1996 Regulations) to dual-use goods in transit. Paragraph (1) of the substitute Article contains the control which has hitherto been in Article 2 of the 1994 Order, but amended to bring its wording into line with the new paragraph (2).