French Goods Review List Proposal of 11 June 2001

CASI has obtained this text of France's Proposed Goods Review List. The bold text, punctuation and erratic numbering system present here are in the original text.


Proposed Goods Review List (GRL)

(Note: Arms and munitions are prohibited under UNSCR 687, para 24 and thus are not included on the review list.)  

A.   Items subject to the provisions of UNSCR 1051 (1996)

B.   The List contained in the Appendix to this Annex to the extent, if any, the items on the list are not covered by UNSCR 687, para 24). The list includes the following general categories: (1) advanced materials; (2) materials processing; (3) electronics; (4) computers; (5) telecommunications and information security; (6) sensors and lasers; (7) navigation and avionics; (8) marine; and (9) propulsion. [Note: This list is identical to the Wassenaar Arrangement dual-use list available at www.wassenaar.org/list, including all notes, statements of understanding and definitions. The list without any references to the Wassenaar Arrangement would be attached to the resolution]

C.   The following individual items, as further described in the annexi:  

Command, Control, Communication and Simulation

1.    Specific advanced telecommunications equipment.

2.    Information security equipment.

3.    Software allowing automatic generation of source codes from data acquired on line from external sensors. [specify]

4.    Space qualified digital instrumentation data recorders.

Sensors, Electronic Warfare, and Night Vision

[5.  Image intensifier tubes for night vision equipment. Microchannel plates (components) for night vision equipment. Optical filters for multispectral scanners. Optical fiber preforms.]

[6.  Travelling wave tubes.]

7.    Surface acoustic wave devices. Hydrogen-isotope thyratrons.

Aircraft and Related Items

8.    Air traffic control software. [specify]

[9.  Airborne radar equipment and specially designed components.]

[10.    Frequency changers capable of operating in the frequency range of 300-600 Hz]

Naval-related Items

11. Engines specially designed for under water vehicles.

Nuclear-related Items [unless IAEA wishes to remove from the list]

12. Pumps designed to move molten metals by electromagnetic forces.

13. Components of pulsed power systems. Marx generators, high power pulse shaping networks, high voltage capacitors, and triggers.

Explosives and Hardened Facilities

14. Charges and devices containing energetic materials (explosives/propellants)

Heavy Military Transport

15.Low-bed trailers/loaders with a carrying capacity greater than 30 metric tonnes.

i For each of the following items, the export of technology that is required for  the development, production, or use of that item is subject to review, except to that technology which is minimum necessary for the installation, operation, maintenance (checking) and repair of those items which are not subject to review.

For each of the following items, the export of software that is specially designed or modified for the development, production or use of that item is subject to review.

This list does not control equipment and devices meant for medical use.


 

#1. Specific advanced telecommunication equipment as follows:

a.   Any type of telecommunications equipment, specially designed to operate outside the temperature range from 219 K (- 54° C) to 397 K (124° C).

b.   Phased array antennae, containing active elements and distributed components, and designed to permit electronic control of beam shaping and pointing, except for landing systems with instruments meeting International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards (microwave landing systems (MLS)).

c.   Radio relay communications equipment designed for use at frequencies exceeding 40 GHz and assemblies and components therefor;

[d.  Optical fiber cables]

e.   Software specially designed for the development or production of the components or equipment in a-d above;

f.    Technology for the development, design or production of the components or equipment in a-d above.

#2. Information security equipment as follows:

* Item 2 does not control items that meet all of the following:

a. Generally available to the public by being sold;, without restriction, from stock at retail selling points by means of any of the following:

1. Over the counter transactions;

2. Mail order transactions;

3. Electronic transactions; or

4. telephone call transactions;

b. The cryptographic functionality cannot easily be changed by the user;

c. Designed for installation by the user without further substantial support by the supplier;

 

* Item 2 does not control:

a. « Personalized smart cards »where the cryptographic capability is restricted for use in equipment or systems excluded from control under entries b to f of this note. If a « personalized smart card » has multiples functions, the control status of each function is assessed individually.

b. Receiving equipment for radio broadcast of the consumer type, without digital encryption except that exclusively used for sending the billing or program-related information back to the broadcast providers;

c. Equipment where the cryptographic capability is not user-accessible and which is specially designed and limited to allow any of the following:

1. Execution of copy-protected software;

2. Access to any of the following:

a. Copy-protected contents stored on real-only media; or

b. Information stored in encrypted form on media (e.g. in connection with the protection of intellectual property rights) when the media is offered for sale in identical sets to the public; or

c. One-time copying of copyright protected audio/video data.

d. Cryptographic equipment specially designed and limited for banking use or money transactions;

e. Portable or mobile radiophones for civil use ( E.G. for use with commercial civil cellular radiocommunications systems) that are not capable of end to end encryption;

f. Cordless telephone equipment not capable of end to end encryption where the maximum effective range of unboosted cordless operation (i.e., a single, unrelayed hop between terminal and home basestation) is less than 400 metres according to the manufacturer’s specifications.

 

Information security equipment having any of the following characteristics:

a.   a symmetric encryption algorithm;

b.   an asymmetric encryption algorithm;

c.   a discrete-log encryption algorithm;

d.   analog encryption or scrambling;

e.   TCSEC B1, B2, B3, or A1 Multilevel Secure (MLS) computer systems.

f.    Software specially designed for the development or production of a-e above;

g.   Technology for the development, design or production of a-f above.

 

#4. Space qualified digital instrumentation data recorders as follows:

a.   Space qualified digital instrumentation magnetic tape data recorders..

b.    Radiation and radioisotope detection and simulation equipment, analyzers, software, and Nuclear Instrumentation Module (NIM) componentry and mainframes;

c.    Software specially designed for the development or production of the components or equipment in a. and b. above;

d.   Technology for the development, design or production of the components or equipment in a-c above.

 

[#5.    Image intensifier tubes for night vision equipment. Microchannel plantes (components) for night vision equipment. Optical filters for multispectral scanners. Optical fiber preforms as follows:

a.     Image intensifier tubes having all the following:

a.1.      A peak response in wavelength range exceeding 400 nm, but not exceeding 1,050 nm;

a.2.      A microchannel plate for electron image amplification with a hole pitch (center-to-center spacing) of less than 25 micrometers; and

a.3.      Having any of the following:

a.3.a.    An S-20, S-25 or multialkali photocathode; or

a.3.b.    A GaAs or GaInAs phatocathode;

b.     Specially designed microchannel plates having both of the following characteristics:

b.1.      15,000 or more hollow tubes per plate; and

b.2.      Hole pitch (center-to-center spacing) of less than 25 micrometers;

c.     Software specially designed for the development or production of the components or equipment in a. and b. above;

d.     Technology for the development, design or production of the components or equipment in a. and b. above.

#6. Travelling wave tubes, pulsed or continuous wave, as follows:  

a. Coupled cavity tubes, or derivatives thereof;

b. Helix tubes, or derivatives thereof, with any of the following:

b.1.a. An instantaneous bandwidth of half an octave or more; and

b.1.b. The product of the rated average output power (expressed in kW) and the maximum operating frequency (expressed in GHz) of more than 0.2;

b.2.a. An instantaneous bandwidth of less than half an octave; and

b.2.b. The product of the rated average output power (expressed in kW) and the maximum operating frequency (expressed in GHz) of more than 0.4;

#7. Surface acoustic wave devices. Hydrogen-isotope thyratrons as follows:

a. Surface acoustic wave and surface skimming (shallow bulk) acoustic wave devices (i.e., signal processing devices employing elastic waves in materials), having either of the following:

a.1.      A carrier frequency exceeding 1 GHz; or

a.2.      A carrier frequency of 1 GHz or less; and

a.2.a.    A frequency side-lobe rejection exceeding 55 dB;

a.2.b.    A product of the maximum delay time and bandwidth (time in microseconds and bandwidth in MHz) of more than 100; or

a.2.c.     A dispersive delay of more than 10 microseconds.

b.       Hydrogen/hydrogen-isotope thyratrons of ceramic-metal construction and rate for a peak current of 500 A or more;.

c.     Software specially designed for the development or production of the components or equipment in a. and b. above;

d. Technology for the development, design or production of the components or equipment in a. and b. above.

[#9.    Airborne radar equipment, as follows, and specially designed components therefor as follows:

a.   Operating at frequencies £ 40 GHz or ³ 230 GHz and having an average output power exceeding 100 mW;

b.   Having a tunable bandwidth not exceeding ± 6.25% of the center operating frequency;

Technical Note: The center operating frequency equals one half of the sum of the highest plus the lowest specified operating frequencies.

c.   Capable of operating on one or simultaneously on two carrier frequencies;

d. Not capable of operating in synthetic aperture (SAR), inverse synthetic aperture (SAR) radar mode, or side-loocking airborne (SLAR) radar mode;

e.   Not incorporating electronically steerable phased array antennae;

f.    Not capable of heightfinding non-cooperative targets;

g.   Specially designed for airborne (balloon or airframe mounted) operation and not having Doppler signal processing for the detection of moving targets;

h.   Not employing processing of radar signals using either of the following:

h.1. Radar spread spectrum techniques; or

h.2. Radar frequency agility techniques;

i.    Being laser radar or Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) equipment, having any of the following:.

i.1. Not space-qualified; or

i.2. Not employing coherent heterodyne or homodyne detection techniques and having an angular resolution of less (better) than 20 microradians;

j.     Having signal processing sub-systems using pulse compression, with any of the following:

j.1. A pulse compression ratio £ 150; or

j.2. A pulse width of ³ than 200 ns; or

k.   Having data processing sub-systems without any of the following:

k.1. Automatic target tracking providing, at any antenna rotation, the predicted target position beyond the time of the next antenna beam passage;

k.2. Calculation of target velocity from primary radar having non-periodic (variable) scanning rates;

k.3. Processing for automatic pattern recognition (feature extraction) and comparison with target characteristic data bases (waveforms or imagery) to identify or classify targets; or

k.4. Superposition and correlation, or fusion, of target data from two or more geographically dispersed and interconnected radar sensors to enhance and discriminate targets;

l.     Software specially designed for the development or production of the components or equipment in a. through k. above;

m.  Technology for the development, design or production of the components or equipment in a-k above.]

# 14. Charges and devices containing energetic materials as follows:

a.   Substances, as follows, and mixture thereof:

1. Triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB) (CAS 3058-38-6>;

2. Triaminoguanidinenitrate (TAGN) (CAS 4000-16-2);

3.  Dinitroglycoluril (DNGU, DINGU) (CAS 55510-04-8); tetranitroglycoluril (TNGU, SORGUYL) (CAS 55510- 03-7);

4. Tetranitrobenzotriazolobenzotriazole (TACOT) (CAS 25243-36-1) ;

5.  Diaminohexanitrobiphenyl (DIPAM) (CAS 17215-44- 0);

6.  Picrylaminodinitropyridine (PYX) (CAS 38082-89- 2);

7.  3-nitro-1,2,4-triazal-5,-one (NTO or ONTA) (CAS 932-64-9);

8.  2-(5-cyanotetrazolato) penta amine-cobalt (III) perchlorate (or CP) (CAS 70247-32-4);

9.  cis-bis (5-nitrotetrazolato) tetra amine-cobalt (III) perchlorate (or BNCP);

10. 7-Arnina-4, 6-dinitrobenzofurazane-1-oxide (ADNBF) (CAS 97096-78-1); amine dinitrobenzofuroxan;

11.   5,7-diamino-4,6-dinitrobenzofurazane-1-oxide (CAS 117907-74-1), (CL-14 or diamino dinitrobenzofuroxan);

12.  2,4,6-trinitro-2,4,6-triazacyclohexanone (K-6 or Keto-RDX) (CAS 115029-35-1) ;

13.  2,4,6, 8-tetranitro-2,4, 6,8-tetraazabicyclo [3,3,0]-octanone-3 (CAS 130256-72-3) (tetranitrosemiglycouril., K-55 or keto-bicyclic HMX);

14.  1,1,3-trinitroazetidine (TNAZ) (CAS 97645-24-4);

15.  1,4,5,8-tetranitro-1,4,5,8-tetraaZadeCalifl (TNAD) (CAS 135877-16-6) ;

16.  Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CAS 135285-90-4) (CL-20 or HNIW); and chlathrates of CL-20;

b.    Explosives and propellants that meet the following performance parameters:

1.     Any explosive with a detonation velocity exceeding 8,700 m/s or a detonation pressure exceeding 34 GPa  (340 kbar);

2.     Other organic explosives not otherwise listed yielding detonation pressures of 25 GPa (250 kbar) or more that will remain stable at temperatures of 523 K (25°c) or higher for periods of 5 minutes or longer;

3.     Any other United Nations (UN) Class 1.1 solid propellant not otherwise listed with a theoretical specific impulse (under standard conditions) of more than 250 s for non-metallised, or more than 270 s for aluminised compositions;

4.     Any UN Class 1.3 solid propellant with a theoretical specific impulse of more than 230 s for non-halogenised, 250 s for non-metallised and 266 s for metallised compositions;

5.     Any other gun propellants not otherwise listed having a force constant of more than 1,200 kJ/kg;

7.     Elastomer modified. cast double based propellants (EMCDB) with extensibility at maximum stress of more than 5% at 233 K (-400C);

 


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