§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his reply to the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell), of 27 November 1995, on military equipment embargoes, 655W Official Report, columns 426–27, if he will set out which parts and groups of the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 apply in each case where an embargo has been imposed. [11051]
§ Mr. OppenheimThe UK interprets the embargoes on Argentina, Burma, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, UNITA (Angola), former Yugoslavia and Zaire as including all goods in group 1 of part III of schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994.
In the case of Iran, the embargo also takes in goods or technology on the nuclear materials list in category 0 in annexe I to Council decision 94/942/CFSP on the control of exports of dual-use goods, the export of which is controlled by Council regulation (EC) 3381/94. There are two exceptions: the ban does not include equipment considered essential for the safety of civil aircraft and air traffic control systems, or radioactive material for medical equipment use, but the exceptions do not apply where there is knowledge or reason to suspect that the goods would go to a military end-user or be used for military purposes.
In the case of China, the scope of the EU ban has been left for national interpretation. We consider the following to be caught by the embargo: weapons and their specially designed components/ammunition, weapons platforms and any equipment which is likely to be used for internal repression. These categories fall under group 1 of part III of schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994.
The voluntary embargoes on Armenia and Azerbaijan are in respect of arms and we interpret them as covering headings ML1, PL5002, PL5018, PL5021, ML2, ML3, ML4, PL5030, PL5006, ML5, ML6(a) and (b), ML7, ML8, ML9, ML10(a)–(f), ML16 (in respect of goods covered by headings ML1, ML2, ML3, ML4 and ML6(a) and (b), ML9, ML10(a)–(f), ML23 and ML26), PL520, ML23, ML24(a) and (b)2, and ML26 of group 1 of part III of schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994. However, any applications for other military equipment for these countries would receive close scrutiny.