# The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes and replaces the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989 and the amendments thereto. The changes (apart from minor or drafting changes) it effects are as follows:–
1.
Export control is
(a) lifted on–equipment and technology for the production of superalloys; machinery and equipment for the manufacture of hydrofoil, surface effect and SWATH vessel structures and components; cobalt based alloys; nickel based alloys; hydraulic fluids which contain mineral oils and greases; silicone fluids and greases; synthetic lubricating oils and greases; equipment and technology for metal powder compaction; and equipment specially designed for the manufacture or testing of memory storage or switching devices or testing of materials composed of certain crystals or their assemblies;
(b) reduced in scope for–technology for certain numerically controlled machine tools and computer control units; water-screw propeller systems employing pre-swirl and post-swirl techniques; certain magnetic metals; certain fluorinated compounds; certain optical fibre cables; certain signal and spectrum analysers; certain electronic vacuum tubes (valves); certain integrated circuits; digital to analogue converters; analogue magnetic tape recorders and magnetic tape; certain superconductive electromagnets; certain electronic devices manufactured from superconductive materials; zirconium foil or strip; and lithium metal, hydrides and alloys;
(c) extended in scope on–test equipment for aircraft and gas turbine engines; diesel engine technology; non-fluorinated polymeric substances; toxicological agents and tear gas; special and other fissile materials for nuclear heat sources; plant, equipment and components for the separation of isotopes of natural and depleted uranium and other fissile materials; equipment and components for plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements; and maraging steels;
(d) extended in scope to include technological documents relating to–bombs, torpedoes, rockets and missiles; weapon fire control systems; tanks and military vehicles; military aircraft and helicopters; electronic equipment for military use; production equipment for military goods; military propellants; production of fibres; vibration test equipment; production equipment for compasses, gyroscopes and accelerometers; space-craft and launch vehicles; navigation, direction finding and radar equipment; telemetering and telecontrol equipment; certain photosensitive components; materials specially designed and manufactured for use as absorbers of electromagnetic waves; certain integrated circuits; gravity meters; and base materials;
(e) redefined or clarified in relation to–natural and depleted uranium; hafnium; tritium; equipment and components for plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements; nuclear reactors; plant for production of heavy water, deuterium or deuterium compounds; plant for the production of uranium hexafluoride; equipment for the separation of isotopes of lithium; frequency changers (converters or inverters); inertial navigation systems, gyroscopes and accelerometers; analogue to digital converters; metal alloys and metal powders; equipment and technology for the production of metal alloys and metal powders; fibrous and filamentary materials; pyrolitic deposition technology; isostatic presses; and chemical vapour deposition (CVD) furnaces;
(f) introduced for–certain quartz crystals (for equipment specified in ML4); electrical pulsers capable of precisely timed multiple initiations of explosives; wet proofed platinized catalysts for promoting hydrogen isotopes exchange; equipment for the handling or processing of uranium hexafluoride; vacuum or controlled environment induction furnaces; certain solid state switches; cold cathode tubes, krytron and similar tubes and triggered spark gaps; high energy storage capacitors; ramjet, scramjet, pulse jet and combined cycle engines; flow forming and spin forming machines; propellants for space-craft and launch vehicles; production equipment for propellants; mixers for propellants; production equipment for inert gas and vacuum atomising; graphites; tungsten and alloys of tungsten; molybdenum and alloys of molybdenum; ground support vehicles for space-craft and launch vehicles; test benches and test stands for rockets and rocket motors; environmental and anechoic chambers; radiographic equipment; coatings for reduced observability in infrared or ultra violet wavelengths; production equipment and facilities for space-crafted launch vehicles, non-fluorinated polymeric substances, pumps, servo valves and control systems for propellants, certain high performance engines or certain gas turbine aero engines; technology for autoclaves and hydroclaves; resaturated pyrolized (carbon-carbon) materials; liquid and slurry propellant control systems; and pumps and servo valves for liquid and slurry propellant systems.
2 Non-COCOM controlled items are prefixed PL and allocated an identification number. They have been located in Schedule 1 in the most appropriate place in the relevant Group and are not in numerical sequence.
They are as follows:
Page
PL5001
15
PL5002
14
PL5003
9
PL5005
9
PL5006
9
PL5009
12
PL5014
13
PL5017
14
PL5018
9
PL5019
9
PL5020
13
PL5021
9
PL5024
10
PL5026
10
PL6001
16
PL6002
17
PL6003
17
PL6005
17
PL6006
17
PL6007
23
PL6008
23
PL6009
23
PL6010
23
PL6011
17
PL6012
16
PL6013
20
PL6014
17
PL6015
22
PL6016
21
PL7001
115
PL7002
115
PL7003
66
PL7004
59
PL7005
31
PL7006
117
PL7007
122
PL7008
68
PL7009
51
PL7010
57
PL7011
57
PL7012
115
PL7013
77
PL7016
57
PL7017
58
PL7018
58
PL7019
34
PL7020
72
PL7021
66
PL7022
78
PL7023
78
PL7025
113
PL7026
57
PL7027
25
PL7028
118
PL7029
32
PL7030
32
PL7031
24
PL7032
34
PL7033
47
PL7034
120
PL7035
115
PL7036
115
PL7037
58
PL7038
108
PL7039
87
PL7040
40
PL7041
40
PL7042
80
PL7043
83
PL7044
42
PL7045
40
PL7046
121
3 The entry numbers for some goods have been changed.
4 Whenever goods are indicated in Schedule 1 by more than one letter, each prohibition in article 2 relating to the relevant letter applies to the export of the goods.
5 Any particular goods may fall within more than one description in Schedule 1 to the Order. In such a case each prohibition (taking effect by such inclusion in that Schedule and the related provisions of article 2) applies to the export of the goods. This may mean that different entries prohibit the export of the goods to different countries.
6 Copies of the British Standards referred to in these Regulations may be obtained from any of the sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution (BSI), or by post from the BSI at 3 Lindford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2666/note (the official version)
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