The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1991
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 islifted 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;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;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;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;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;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.