§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the countries included on the restricted list for sensitive technologies or military exports(a) in 1979, and (b) currently; and if he will indicate the reasons for the changes in the list since 1979.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe Export of Goods (Control) Order 1992 imposes restrictions on the export of sensitive technologies and military goods. Unless otherwise specified, the export of goods listed in this order is controlled to all destinations.
A list of destinations subject to special export licensing procedures was first announced to Parliament on 19 December 1991, Official Report, columns 230–31, and subsequently published.
Since then, the following changes to that list have been publicised:
the deletion of Hungary as a result of its deproscription by COCOM;the deletion of the Soviet Union and replacement by individual identification of all territories formerly part of the Soviet Union;the deletion of Czechoslovakia and replacement by individual identification of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic following their separation into individual countries on 1 January 1993;the addition of all territories formerly part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.The Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic were deproscribed by COCOM on 1 January 1994 and this will be reflected in the next published list.