Orgalime Members Digest March 2012

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ORGALIME 

MEMBERS’ DIGEST 

Main legislative issues 

No 6 - March 2012 

Environment & Energy 

Resource Efficiency – Orgalime concerned over the 

European Parliament draft report [more] 

Draft Energy Efficiency Directive – on the way for 

European Parliament and Council negotiations [more] 

RoHS II: Fight continues towards efficient implementation 

[more] 

Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) – Implementation: a 

snapshot [more] 

REACH [more] 

Trade/R&D/Legal 

Horizon 2020 arrives at the European Parliament [more] 

Recast of the Modernised Customs Code (Union 

Customs Code) takes industry by surprise [more] 

Release of Orgalime S 2012 General Conditions [more] 

Mission for Growth to Latin America [more] 

Review of Trade Defence Instruments [more] 

Dual use items - updated list [more] 

Barometer of status 

7) Implementation 

6) Adoption 

5) Council second reading 

4) EP second reading 

3) Council common position 

2) EP first reading 

1) Commission’s proposal 

0) Working document 

The arrow and number next to the title of the issue 

refers to the barometer above and gives you a hint on 

the stage reached by the (draft) Directive or Regulation. 

Internal Market & Standardisation 

European Parliament backs industry claims for ensuring 

the market relevance of European Commission 

standardisation mandates [more] 

Gas Appliances Directive (GAD) – Revision [more] 

Alignment Package: Steps towards a strict alignment 

[more] 

Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) – Update [more] 

Meetings 

Director General’s 

message 

Our message to the institutions is becoming 

increasingly direct, as both officials and 

politicians talk in vague terms about growth 

without ever mentioning the word industry 

and Brussels goes on in a 'business as 

usual mode': industry is not a dirty word! 

Industry is not smoke stacks, pollution and 

unacceptable face of capitalism. Industry 

provides jobs and the employees of 

manufacturing companies from the 

backbone of the European economy, 

including also of the service economy. It is 

time that politicians really made efforts to 

understand what makes industry attracted 

to the EU, invest and flourish!

Internal Market & 

Standardisation 

4) European Parliament backs industry claims for ensuring the market 

relevance of European Commission standardisation mandates 

MEP Lara Comi’s report on the 

draft Regulation on European 

standardisation was approved on 

23 March by the European 

Parliament’s Internal Market 

Committee (IMCO) with 36 votes 

in favour and 2 abstentions. In 

general the outcome of the vote 

is positive for Orgalime - our 

efforts are now focusing on the 

Council to keep these positive 

changes to the Commission 

proposal, which include: 

• The rejection of voting or veto 

rights for societal stakeholders 

• The introduction of an obligation 

for the Commission to notify 

European business federations 

and ‘all relevant stakeholders’ to 

ensure the market relevance of 

European Commission annual 

work programmes and draft 

E u r o p e a n C o m m i s s i o n 

standardisation mandates. This 

was a strong plea from most 

stakeholders, most notably from 

industry 

• Deletion to the reference to fund 

Annex III organisations for ‘the 

verification of the quality, and 

conformity to the corresponding 

policies and legislation of the 

Union, of European standards 

and European standardisation 

deliverables’ 

• Rejection of the idea to allow for 

free access to standardisation 

work for certain groups of 

‘weak’ stakeholders, namely 

micro-enterprises. 

The European Parliament will 

decide mid-April when to open 

formal negotiations with the 

Council, which is expected to 

finalise its common position by 

the end of May. If all the 3 

institutions manage to come to 

an agreement before the summer 

b r e a k , t h e R e g u l a t i o n o n 

European standardisation could 

be formally adopted by mid-July. 

If you would like 

t o k n o w m o re 

about the subject, 

please contact 

the author: 

Philippe Portalier, 

Standardisation & 

Te c h n i c a l P o l i c y M a n a g e r 

philippe.portalier@orgalime.org 

Energy and Environment 

Policy Issues 

2) Resource Efficiency – Orgalime concerned over EP draft report 

Following the publication of 

Rapporteur Gerbrandy’s Draft 

Report on the Roadmap for a 

Resource Efficient Europe, 

Orgalime expressed its concerns 

i n a l e t t e r i s s u e d t o t h e 

Rapporteur, Shadow Rapporteurs 

and MEPs in the Environment 

Committee (ENVI). In line with our 

earlier position, t h e l e t t e r 

articulated worries about the 

extension of the Eco Design 

Directive to non-energy related 

p r o d u c t s a n d f u r t h e r 

e n v i ro n m e n t a l p a r a m e t e r s . 

Alternative proposals have been 

submitted such as: 

• Introducing a zero-landfill policy 

without delay 

• Calling for the setting of waste 

collection and recycling targets, 

including reuse 

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• Quality standards for secondary 

raw materials and harmonised 

treatment standards for priority 

waste streams. 

Not only do we call for full 

implementation of the EU waste 

acquis, but for even more efficient 

and effective market control and 

enforcement in order to stop 

illegal shipments of (valuable) 

waste fractions outside Europe. In 

a d d i t i o n , O r g a l i m e a l s o 

r e c o m m e n d p l a c i n g m o r e 

emphasis on the role of the 

consumer and promote the 

establishment of a roll out map for 

resource efficient technologies. 

Meanwhile, the 272 amendments 

tabled on Rapporteur Gerbrandy’s 

Draft Report are currently under 

assessment, in view of further 

actions ahead of the European 

P a r l i a m e n t E n v i r o n m e n t 

Committee (ENVI) vote scheduled 

for 25 April. 

If you would like to know more 

about the subject, please contact 

the authors: 

S i g r i d L i n h e r, 

E n v i r o n m e n t 

Manager 

and Anne-Louise 

P i c a r d , J u n i o r 

Adviser 

sigrid.linher@orgalime.org 

anne-louise.picard@orgalime.org


2) Horizon 2020 arrives at the European Parliament 

H o r i z o n 2 0 2 0 , t h e f u t u r e 

f r a m e w o r k p ro g r a m m e f o r 

research and innovation from 

2014 to 2020, is currently up for 

discussion by the European 

Parliament and the Council.! The 

Industry, Research and Energy 

Committee (ITRE) of the European 

Parliament, responsible for 

p r e p a r i n g t h e E u r o p e a n 

Parliament Report, has appointed 

Ms Teresa Riera Madurell MEP 

(S&D, Spain) as Rapporteur for 

the general Horizon 2020 dossier 

and Ms Maria Da Graça Carvalho 

MEP (EPP, Portugal) for the report 

o n t h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n 

programmes of Horizon 2020. ! 

The Parliament is not expecting to 

vote on the reports before 

October 2012. 

As Horizon 2020 aims to be the 

first one to support the whole 

cycle of innovation, from basic 

research to market uptake, it 

poses new and demanding 

questions to stakeholders and 

policymakers.! The European 

Parliament held a public hearing 

focusing on the ways to estimate 

the impact of Horizon 2020 for 

growth and jobs in the EU, the 

right balance between supporting 

e x c e l l e n c e a n d s p r e a d i n g 

research capacities throughout 

the EU and ensuring a viable 

career for EU researchers to limit 

d o w n b r a i n d r a i n t o t h i rd 

countries. The presentations of 

the speakers are available online. 

If you would like to 

know more about 

the subject, please 

contact the author: 

! e l j k o P a z i n , 

Manager Trade, 

L e g a l , R & D . 

zeljko.pazin@orgalime.org 

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7) Gas Appliances Directive (GAD) – Revision 

After more than two years of work 

on the new terms of a revision of 

the Gas Appliances Directive 

(GAD) through a Commission ad 

hoc group (in which Orgalime has 

a seat), the European Commission 

launched a public consultation on 

the revision of GAD at the end of 

last year. 

The main consultation issues to 

which stakeholders will contribute 

is dealing with the following 

issues: 

•Alignment of GAD with the New 

Legislative Framework 

•Clarification of the current 

provisions of GAD 

•Modification of the scope of 

G A D a n d t h e e s s e n t i a l 

requirements 

Orgalime finalised its contribution 

to the on-line consultation which 

closed on 11 March 2012. 

I n p a r a l l e l , t h e E u r o p e a n 

Commission has also appointed a 

consultant (Risk & Policy Analysts 

Ltd) to carry out an impact 

assessment study on the revision 

of Directive 2099/142/EC on 

appliances burning gaseous fuels. 

O r g a l i m e i s a n s w e r i n g a 

questionnaire drafted by the 

consultant. The Commission 

proposal on a revision of the Gas 

Appliances Directive should be 

ready in the first quarter of 2013. 





Eleonora Piccinni, 

S e n i o r A d v i s e r 

eleonora.piccinni@orgalime.org 

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2) Alignment Package: Steps towards a strict alignment 

The alignment of the 9 Directives 

w i t h t h e N e w L e g i s l a t i v e 

Framework is the hands of the 

Council and the Internal Market 

and Consumer Affairs Committee 

of the European Parliament. 

During the last discussion of the 

Committee, Ms Roithová MEP, the 

European Parliament Rapporteur, 

shared her belief that the 

objective of the Alignment 

Package is to simplify the 

application of law and to enhance 

m a r k e t s u r v e i l l a n c e . S h e 

mentioned Orgalime and focused 

on issues stated in our position 

paper (published 5 March 2012), 

such as the single declaration of 

conformity and the application of 

new rules to products already 

placed on the market. The 

Shadow Rapporteurs also seem 

willing to achieve a strict and 

efficient alignment. Ms Roithová’s 

report is expected in the end of 

April and should normally be 

adopted at first reading in autumn 

2012. 

O rg a l i m e c o o p e r a t e d w i t h 

E u ro c o m m e rc e t o i d e n t i f y 

possible problems from the 

implementation of the Package 

throughout the distribution chain. 

Orgalime also met with the team 

of Ms Roithová, to elaborate on 

our position and on the outcome 

o f t h e a f o r e m e n t i o n e d 

collaboration. Furthermore, we 

v i s i t e d t h e p e r m a n e n t 

representation of Cyprus, which 

will hold the Presidency of the 

Council between July and 

December this year and will thus 

chair important meetings on the 

Package. Their objective is to 

avoid any discussion on the 

content of the Directives, which 

might result in diverging from a 

strict alignment. Mr McMillan, 

responsible for the Package 

within the European Commission, 

participated in the meeting of the 

NAMS task force on 2 April 2012. 



the authors: 

Philippe Portalier, 

Standardisation & 

Technical Policy 

Manager 

a n d E f t h y m i a 

N t i v i , J u n i o r 

Adviser 

philippe.portalier@orgalime.org 

efthymia.ntivi@orgalime.org 

2) Draft Energy Efficiency Directive – on the way for EP and Council 

negotiations 

Following the adoption of a Draft 

Report on the draft Energy 

Efficiency Directive (EED), The 

Industry, Research and Energy 

C o m m i t t e e ( I T R E ) g a v e a 

mandate to Rapporteur Turmes to 

start informal negotiations with 

the Council immediately after the 

ITRE Committee vote to reach a 

first reading agreement. In 

parallel, ongoing discussions at 

the Council are taking place to 

establish clear guidance for the 

Danish Presidency on the 

following key issues: targets, 

obligation schemes, public 

bodies & buildings and Green 

Public Procurement. In view of 

the finalisation of the Council 

position for the upcoming 

trialogue negotiations, Orgalime 

submitted its recommendations 

to the Commission and the 

Danish Presidency. 

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Policy Issues 

Essentially, Orgalime calls on the 

Council to support concrete 

energy efficiency measures rather 

than the setting of binding targets 

and to establish an energy 

efficiency obligation scheme that 

includes an opt-out clause and an 

exemption for small actors 

without lowering the overall 

ambition of the scheme. In 

addition, Orgalime also supports 

strengthening requirements on 

both, private and public building 

renovation, harmonising energy 

efficiency product criteria for 

public procurement, promoting 

smart metering and introducing 

demand response programmes. 

Meanwhile, Orgalime’s follow-up 

activities included taking the 

opportunity to promote its views 

on renovation in buildings at a 

BusinessEurope Energy Efficiency 

seminar and shortly exchanged 

views with Martin Lidegaard, 

Danish Minister for Climate, 

Energy and Building during a 

workshop on ‘Energy Efficiency in 

Buildings’ on 8 March 2012. 



the authors: 



Manager 

and Anne-Claire 

Rasselet, Adviser 


anne-claire.rasselet@orgalime.org


1) Recast of the Modernised Customs Code takes industry by surprise 

In February 2012 the Commission 

issued a proposal for a Regulation 

of the European Parliament and of 

the Council laying down the 

Union Customs Code (UCC).!The 

aim of the proposal is to amend 

the Regulation (EC) 450/2008 

(Modernised Customs Code 

( M C C ) ) b e f o re i t b e c o m e s 

applicable, and to adjust some 

provisions of the MCC which are 

no longer in line with changes 

introduced since 2008. One of the 

major changes in the recast is the 

introduction of delegated and 

implementing acts, following the 

Lisbon Treaty. 

The proposal has been submitted 

to the European Parliament and 

w i l l b e d e a l t w i t h i n t h e 

Committee on Internal Market 

and Consumer Protection (IMCO) 

as a lead committee under the 

ordinary legislative procedure (codecision), 

with the Committee on 

L e g a l A f f a i r s ( J U R I ) a n d 

International Trade (INTA) as 

opinion giving Committees. 

The first exchange of views in 

IMCO will be held by the end of 

April, and a public hearing in the 

European Parliament should be 

organised later this year. The 

Rapporteur for the dossier is Ms 

Constance Le Grip (EPP, France), 

and the draft report should be 

presented for discussion after the 

summer break.! Industry experts 

were caught by surprise by the 

250 page long recast document, 

Orgalime is now collecting 

feedback and comments from 

members.! T h e D a n i s h E U 

P r e s i d e n c y h a s r e c e n t l y 

requested Member States to 

submit comments on the recast 

by mid-April. 







L e g a l , R & D . 



Policy Issues 

7) RoHS II: Fight continues towards efficient implementation 

Judging by the number of letters 

and position papers provided to 

the Commission and Member 

States’ RoHS2 FAQ Working 

Group in the last two months, 

industry is indeed persisting in its 

fight to ensure both a timely and 

proper implementation of the 

Directive. Indeed, following the 

submission of the Orgalime’s 

political letter challenging the 

developments on the RoHS2 

Guidance/FAQ Working Group, 

we have been invited to present 

industry’s views to the RoHS2 

Working Group meeting on 1 

March on the issue of ‘large scale’ 

in the context of Large Scale 

Fixed Installation /Large Scale 

Stationary Industrial Tool as well 

as a number of issues, e.g.: 

definition of EEE and dependent 

o r c o m p l i a n c e d e a d l i n e s . 

O r g a l i m e a l s o t o o k t h e 

opportunity to provide a technical 

letter commenting and proposing 

industry’s common understanding 

of these core elements. 

Orgalime’s participation in the 

working group meeting was a 

good opportunity to present 

industry’s alternative proposals 

and to explain market realities 

a n d t h e r o l e o f E E E 

manufacturers. However, the main 

concern lied in the (in our view) 

misleading interpretation of Large 

Scale Fixed Installations (LSFI) 

and the shifting of compliance 

r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s f r o m t h e 

manufacturer/importer of EEE to 

the installer of ‘installations’. 

Thus, Orgalime took to initiative to 

r e s p o n d t o t h e Te c h n i c a l 

Adaptation Committee (TAC) 

focusing on the argument of the 

difference between ‘placing on 

the market’ and ‘putting into 

service’ which is fundamental to 

the whole logic of RoHS2 and the 

LSFI exclusion. 

In addition, Orgalime is in the 

process of elaborating its own 

guidance document providing a 

common understanding of the 

scope provisions, as well as a 

final industry guideline including a 

substantiated chapter on ‘large 

scale stationary industrial tools’. 



the authors: 



Manager 



Adviser 


anne-louise.picard@orgalime.org 

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7) Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) – Update 

C o n t r a r y t o w h a t w a s 

announced at its publication, the 

Pressure Equipment Directive 

(PED) has not been integrated 

into the alignment package with 

the New Legislative Framework 

(NLF). This is due to the fact that 

Article 9 of PED (hazardous 

substances) had first to be 

aligned with the Classification, 

Labelling and Packaging (CLP) 

of hazardous substances and 

mixtures Regulation which will 

be applicable as from June 

2015. Orgalime wrote a letter of 

concern to the Commission 

regarding the non-alignment of 

the PED with the NLF. 

In parallel, the Commission has 

appointed a consultant to run an 

evaluation of the implementation 

of the Pressure Equipment 

D i re c t i v e i n t h e E U . T h e 

consultant had a meeting with 

the Orgalime members on 7 

M a rc h 2 0 1 2 . O rg a l i m e i s 

currently circulating the online 

survey to its members in order to 

have an extensive sample 

represented. 


t o k n o w m o re 

about the subject, 

please contact 

the author: 

Eleonora Piccinni, 

Senior Adviser 

eleonora.piccinni@orgalime.org 


" " Release of Orgalime S 2012 General Conditions 

Orgalime is releasing the S 2012 

general conditions, ‘General 

conditions for the supply of 

mechanical, electrical and 

electronic products, March 2012’, 

a revision of the S 2000 general 

conditions (August 2000), that 

has proven to be Orgalime’s best 

selling publication. Well over 

1,000,000 hard copies of the S 

2000 general conditions have 

been sold since their publication 

and they are the biggest pull to 

our licensing website, where we 

provide a licence for the use of 

our conditions in electronic 

format. There are, to date, 9 sets 

of Orgalime general conditions. 

To keep up with the increasing 

popularity and acceptance of our 

general conditions by companies 

throughout Europe, and in order 

to assist companies from our 

industries who wish to expand 

their horizons, Orgalime has 

broadened the scope of available 

language versions of its new S 

2012 publication to include 

Danish, Slovak, Czech, Turkish, 

Arabic and Japanese languages. 

The previously other available 

versions (German, French, 

Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, 

Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, 

Polish, Russian and Chinese) 

have all been updated as well. 







L e g a l , R & D . 


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" Mission for Growth to Latin America 

Following a visit of Vice President 

Antonio Tajani to Brazil in 

December 2011, the Commission 

will organise further missions for 

growth this year.! A visit to South 

A m e r i c a ( B r a z i l , U r u g u a y, 

Argentina and Chile) will take 

place in the end of April 2012, 

a n d i s a i m e d a t b u s i n e s s 

federations and SMEs.! The 

delegation for this mission will be 

led by Mr Daniel Calleja Crespo, 

t h e D i r e c t o r G e n e r a l o f 

Directorate-General Enterprise 

and Industry.!The visit might be a 

good opportunity for companies 

to promote EU business interests 

and to pave the way for political 

support.! The mission will involve 

match-making events and should 

strengthen the ties between Latin 

American and EU companies. ! 

Following the visit to São Paulo, 

the delegation will be led on a 

M i s s i o n f o r G r o w t h i n 

Montevideo, Uruguay, Buenos 

Aires, Argentina and Santiago de 

Chile, to discuss how to foster 

industrial cooperation with 

politicians and entrepreneurs of 

the host countries.! The key 

industrial sectors that will be 

targeted during these visits 

include green economy, key 

e n a b l i n g t e c h n o l o g i e s , 

construction, biotechnology, 

mining, shipping and tourism.!The 

following visit, to the US, Mexico 

and Colombia, will take place in 

May 2012. !As was announced by 

the Commission in March 2012 

the institution intends to organise 

further missions: to South-East 

Asia at the end of 2012, and to 

South Mediterranean region at the 

beginning of 2013.! Orgalime 

members that are interested in 

these missions are invited to 

contact the Orgalime Secretariat. 



the authors: 

A d r i a n H a r r i s , 

Director General 



Legal, R&D 

adrian.harris@orgalime.org 



Policy Issues 

7) Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) – Implementation: a 

snapshot" 

On 21 November 2011, the 

Industrial Emissions Directive 

Member States Committee 

(Article 75 Committee) provided 

its opinion upon a set of IED 

implementation measures and put 

an end to a year of stakeholder 

c o n s u l t a t i o n m e e t i n g s . 3 

implementing decisions have 

been adopted via the Comitology 

procedure (implementing acts), 

notably the guidance document 

on the collection of data and on 

the drawing up of Best Available 

Technique reference documents, 

as well as the BAT conclusions for 

the Iron & Steel BREF and the 

Glass Manufacturing BREF (the 

first two revised guidance 

documents under the IED). 

Further to this Committee 

m e e t i n g , t h e C o m m i s s i o n 

reiterated its willingness to 

c o n t i n u e t o d e r i v e B A T 

Conclusions on the basis of 

existing BREFs. Accordingly, the 

expertise of the Seville Technical 

Working Group will remain 

essential to identify and ensure 

fair and appropriate development 

of BAT reference documents. 

Orgalime consider it therefore, a 

responsibility to maintain a strong 

network and coordination with 

and between Seville experts 

representing the engineering 

industry. For that purpose, 

Orgalime is organising an ‘open 

session’ IED Task Force with 

BREF experts to exchange views 

and experiences on their work 

carried out for the drawing up 

and/or revision of BREFs of 

concern to our industry. 

With respect to the Integrated 

Pollution Prevention and Control 

(IPPC) Bureau’s envisaged draft 

work programme for the period 

2012-2014 onwards, the 

Commission recently announced 

that the Monitoring BREF will now 

become a Reference Report 

(Commission guidance document 

without BAT conclusions). 



the authors: 



Manager 



Adviser 


anne-louise.picard@orgalime.org 

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" Review of Trade Defence Instruments 

In March 2012 the European 

Commission published the results 

of an evaluation of the EU's trade 

defence instruments (TDI). ! The 

aim of the study was to examine 

the efficiency and effectiveness of 

trade defence mechanisms, and 

to prepare for a reform of TDI that 

is to be launched in the end of 

2012.!The evaluation covered the 

description of current practice in 

the field of TDI, an economic 

analysis of the arguments for TDI 

and their application in the 

international legal and economic 

context.! It also focused on the 

review of the relevant regulations 

in the light of administrative 

practice, the judgments of the 

C o u r t o f J u s t i c e a n d t h e 

recommendations of the WTO's 

Dispute Settlement Body, and it 

assessed the EU policy and 

practice compared to certain EU 

trading partners.! The previous 

revision of anti-dumping and antisubsidy 

measures took place in 

1995 and the main goal of the 

upcoming reform is to adapt the 

measures to the challenges of an 

increasingly globalised economic 

environment.! As a next step 

following the release of the 

evaluation the Commission will 

launch a public consultation on 

the modernisation of the EU's 

TDI. 


to know more 

a b o u t t h e 

subject, please 

c o n t a c t t h e 

author: 


Manager Trade, Legal, R&D. 



Policy Issues 

7) REACH 

Risk management measures 

under the REACH Regulation 

have recently been updated with 

the adoption of the two following 

Regulations amending Annex XIV 

and Annex XVII REACH: 

•The Commission Regulation 

125/2012 of 14 February 2012 

adding 8 substances to the 

Annex XIV REACH (list of 

s u b s t a n c e s s u b j e c t t o 

a u t h o r i s a t i o n ) , T h e s e 8 

substances will not be placed on 

the market or used within the 

next three years unless an 

authorisation has been granted 

for a specific use. 

•The Commission Regulation 

109/2012 of 9 February 2012 

amending Annex XVII REACH, 

and restricting the manufacture, 

placing on the market and use of 

some CMR substances. 

F o l l o w i n g t h e u p d a t e i n 

December 2011 of the REACH 

candidate list (CL), which now 

contains 73 substances, a further 

13 substances were proposed in 

February 2012 to be added to the 

CL. 

In addition, European Chemicals 

Agency (ECHA) has published 

information on notification of 

Substance of Very High Concern 

(SVHC) in articles, on basis of the 

only 203 notifications received 

(from April to December 2011) as 

w e l l a s i d e n t i fi e d u s e s o f 

substances in articles provided in 

registration dossiers. ECHA has 

published information on the 

number of notifications, the article 

categories and the article types 

notified for use by consumers 

(click here for further information). 



the authors: 



Manager 

and Anne-Claire 

Rasselet, Adviser 


anne-claire.rasselet@orgalime.org 

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" " 


" Dual use items - updated list 

I n 2 0 1 1 t h e E u r o p e a n 

Commission initiated a discussion 

regarding possible reforms to the 

Regulation of dual use items. !The 

dual-use goods and technologies 

can be used for both civilian and 

military purposes, which is a 

reason why their exports and 

transit are subject to strict control. ! 

The lists of dual-use goods and 

technologies are being updated 

regularly to limit the risk of 

sensitive items being used for 

m i l i t a r y p u r p o s e s o r i n 

proliferation programs. 

In February 2012, the EU Council 

adopted its position on a draft 

regulation updating the EU’s list 

o f d u a l - u s e g o o d s a n d 

technologies, with the aim of 

a l i g n i n g t h e l i s t s t o t h e 

international rules. 

More specifically, the new 

R e g u l a t i o n a i m s t o b r i n g 

Regulation 428/2009/EC which 

g o v e r n s e x p o r t , t r a n s f e r s , 

brokering and transit of dual use 

items, into line with latest 

developments of international 

regimes relevant to the control of 

exports of dual use goods and 

technologies.! There are 4 such 

regimes at the moment, the 

Wassenaar Arrangement on 

Export Controls for Conventional 

Arms and Dual-Use Goods and 

Te c h n o l o g i e s , t h e N u c l e a r 

Suppliers Group, the Australia 

G r o u p , a n d t h e M i s s i l e 

Technology Control Regime. 




c o n t a c t t h e 

author: 


Manager Trade, Legal, R&D. 


Meetings 

Past meetings March 

STD TF meeting (01/03) 

Electric Vehicles (01/03) 

PED TF meeting (07/03) 

TCC-THG meeting (13/03) 

Economists & Statistics (16/03) 

Legal Affairs (20-21/03) 

Smart Grids TF (27/03) 

REACH Task Force (28/03) 

Forthcoming meetings April 

NAMS Task Force (02/04) 

WEEE Task Force (16/04) 

EPPE Task Force (17/04) 

Orgalime Board of Directors (17-18/04) 

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