The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/2376
• Sections: 36

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 14th February 1990.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

“aircraft” does not include helicopters;

“Commissioners” means the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;

“country” includes territory;

“document” includes any record or device by means of which information is recorded or stored;

“goods”, unless otherwise specified, means both used and unused goods;

“hovercraft” has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Hovercraft Act 1968 ;

“importation” and “exportation” in relation to a vessel, submersible vehicle, aircraft or helicopter includes the taking into or out of the United Kingdom of the vessel, submersible vehicle, aircraft or helicopter notwithstanding that the vessel, submersible vehicle, aircraft or helicopter is conveying goods or passengers, and whether or not it is moving under its own power; and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

“Member State” means a Member State of the European Communities;

“microprogramme” means a sequence of elementary instructions, maintained in a special storage, the execution of which is initiated by the introduction of its reference instruction into an instruction register;

“normal commercial journey” means a journey providing transport services in the ordinary course of business;

“ODMA software” means operating software, diagnostic software, maintenance software or application software; and in each case includes only the minimum software necessary to enable the equipment to perform the function for which it was designed;

“programme” means a sequence of instructions to carry out a process in, or convertible into, a form executable by an electronic computer and includes a microprogramme;

“scheduled goods” means goods of a description specified in Schedule 1 hereto;

“scheduled journey” means one of a series of journeys which are undertaken between the same two places and which together amount to a systematic service operated in such a manner that the benefits thereof are available to members of the public from time to time seeking to take advantage of it;

“ship” includes the hull or part of the hull of a ship;

“software” means one or more programmes fixed in any tangible medium of expression;

“surface effect vehicle” means any air cushion vehicle (whether side wall or skirted) and any vehicle using the wing-in-ground effect for positive lift;

“ SWATH vessel” means any small waterplane area twin-hull vessel;

“technological document” means any document containing information relating to the design, production, testing or use of goods or to technologies or processes, excluding:

document which is generally available to the public;

application for the grant of a patent (or any other form of protection for an invention) or for the registration of a design, or a semi conductor topography, in each case under the law of the United Kingdom or of any other country or under any treaty or international convention;

document necessary to enable any such application to be filed, made or pursued;

“vessel” includes any ship, surface effect vehicle, SWATH vessel and hydrofoil, and the hull or part of the hull of a vessel;

a prohibition on exportation means a prohibition on exportation from the United Kingdom and shall include a prohibition on shipment as ships' stores;

any reference to scheduled goods or any other item being indicated by a letter shall be taken as a reference to such goods or items being so indicated in Schedule 1 hereto;

numerical references in Schedule 1 hereto to British Standards are references to the standards so numbered published by the British Standards Institution in the year indicated after such references with such amendments (if any) thereto as may have been made before the making of this Order;

references in Schedule 1 hereto to percentages of the contents of any goods are references to percentages by weight;

any description of goods specified in Group A of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto in relation to a Combined Nomenclature heading or sub-heading, other than one covering a whole heading, shall be taken to comprise all goods which would be classified under an entry in the same terms constituting a subheading in the relevant heading in the Combined Nomenclature of the European Economic Community .

Section 2 Prohibitions and restrictions on exportation

Subject to the provisions of this Order—

(i) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “C”, those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination, and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which relates to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in a country listed in Schedule 2 to this Order;

(ii) where technology is specified in Schedule 1 to this Order and indicated by the “D”, technological documents the information in which includes that technology are prohibited to be exported to any destination in a country listed in Schedule 2 to this Order;

(iii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “E” are prohibited to be exported to any destination except a destination in another Member State;

(iv) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “I”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which relates to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Iran or Iraq;

(v) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “L”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which relates to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Libya;

(vi) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “S”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which relates to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination after delivery or for the purpose of delivery, directly or indirectly, to a person in any country listed in Schedule 2 to this Order;

(vii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “T” are prohibited to be exported to any destination except that when in relation to such goods the provisions of Commission Regulation ( EEC ) 1062/87 , as amended , relating to the use of Community transit documents requiring anything to be done at or before the time of exportation have been complied with, the goods may be exported to a destination in another Member State;

(viii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “W” are prohibited to be exported to any destination;

(ix) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “X” are prohibited to be exported to any destination in India or Pakistan;

(x) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “Y”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which relates to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Syria;

(xi) where scheduled goods are indicated by the letter “Z”, those goods and (whether or not express provision is made in relation to technology) technological documents the information in which relates to those goods are prohibited to be exported to any destination in South Africa or Namibia;

(xii) specialised components of any goods of a description specified in Group 1 of Part II of Schedule 1 hereto, whether or not such components are specified in the description, are prohibited to be exported to any destination in South Africa or Namibia;

(xiii) goods of a description specified in Group C of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto are prohibited to be exported to any destination in the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Section 3 Community steel products

The prohibition in article 2(xiii) of this Order shall not apply to any exportation to any destination in the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in accordance with a European Community export licence issued by the competent authority of a Member State in conformity with the provisions of Commission Decision 2873/82/ EC SC or Commission Regulation (EEC) No.2874/82 or Commission Regulation (EEC) No.61/85 .

Section 4 Exceptions

Nothing in article 2 of this Order shall be taken to prohibit the exportation of—

Licensed exports and permitted ships' stores

(a) any goods under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State, or the shipment of any goods as ships' stores with the permission of the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the port of departure for use on board the ship, provided that all conditions attaching to the said licence or the said permission are complied with;

Channel Islands

(b) any goods other than goods of a description specified in Group B of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto or in Group 1 of Part II of the said Schedule, to any destination in the Channel Islands;

Samples

(c) trade samples of any goods of a description specified in Group A of Part 1 of Schedule 1 hereto, if the samples have no saleable value;

Aircraft and helicopters

(d)

(i) any aircraft or helicopter which is being exported after temporary importation into the United Kingdom, provided that there has been no change of ownership or registration since such importation;

(ii) any aircraft or helicopter engaged on a scheduled journey;

Cocoa

(e) cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted, and the following cocoa products namely cocoa paste (in bulk or block) whether or not defatted, cocoa butter (fat and oil) and cocoa powder not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter to any destination if there is produced to the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the place of export the appropriate certificate prescribed for this purpose by the economic and control rules of the International Cocoa Agreement 1986 which were adopted by the International Cocoa Council on 23rd January 1987

Firearms and ammunition

(f)

(i) firearms (not being goods of a description specified in Group B of Part 1 of Schedule 1 hereto) authorized to be held by a valid firearm certificate or shotgun certificate granted or having effect as if granted under the Firearms Act 1968 or by a valid firearm certificate granted under the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 or granted in the Isle of Man under the Firearms Act 1947 (an Act of Tynwald) ; and

(ii) related ammunition for use therewith;

to any destination other than a destination in South Africa or in Namibia, provided that the firearms and ammunition form part of the personal effects of the holder of the certificate and the certificate is produced by the holder, or his duly authorized agent, with the firearms and ammunition, to the proper officer of Customs & Excise at the place of export;

Live animals

(g)

(i) any live animal if the place of export is Great Britain;

(ii) live bovine animals, live swine and live sheep from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland;

Vessels

(h)

(i) any vessel registered or constructed outside the United Kingdom which is being exported after temporary importation into the United Kingdom;

(ii) any vessel which is departing from the United Kingdom on trials;

(iii) any vessel proceeding on a normal commercial journey.

Section 5 Customs powers to demand evidence of destination which goods reach

Any exporter or any shipper of goods which have been exported from the United Kingdom shall, if so required by the Commissioners, furnish within such time as they may allow proof to their satisfaction that the goods have reached either—

(i) a destination to which they were authorised to be exported by a licence granted for the purposes of this Order, or

(ii) a destination to which their exportation was not prohibited by this Order;

and, if he fails to do so, he shall be liable to a customs penalty not exceeding two thousand pounds unless he proves that he did not consent to or connive at the goods reaching any destination other than such a destination as aforesaid.

Section 6 Offences in connection with applications for licences, conditions attaching to licences, etc.

(1) If for the purpose of obtaining any licence or permission under this Order for the exportation or shipment as ships' stores of any goods or of obtaining from the Secretary of State a European Community export licence as referred to in article 3 of this Order any person makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand pounds and on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both; and any licence or permission or European Community export licence which may have been granted for the exportation or shipment as ships' stores of any goods, in connection with the application for which the false statement was made or the false document or information furnished, shall be void as from the time it was granted.

(2) Any person who has exported goods from the United Kingdom under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State in pursuance of Article 4(a) and who fails to comply with any condition attaching to that licence shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand pounds and on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both:

Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under this paragraph where he proves that the condition with which he failed to comply was modified, otherwise than with his consent, by the Secretary of State and that the goods in relation to which he failed to comply with the condition had, at the time when the condition was modified, been exported from the United Kingdom.

Section 7 Declaration as to goods: powers of search

(1) Any person who, on any occasion, is about to leave the United Kingdom shall, if on that occasion he is required to do so by an officer of Customs and Excise—

(a) declare whether or not he has with him any goods the export of which from the United Kingdom is subject to any prohibition or restriction under this Order; and

(b) produce any such goods as aforesaid which he has with him;

and such officer, and any person acting under his directions, may search that person for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has with him any such goods as aforesaid:

Provided that no person shall be searched in pursuance of this paragraph except by a person of the same sex.

(2) Any person who without reasonable excuse refuses to make a declaration, fails to produce any goods or refuses to allow himself to be searched in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this article shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a customs penalty not exceeding one thousand pounds.

(3) Any person who under the provisions of this article makes a declaration which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly makes any declaration which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a customs penalty not exceeding two thousand pounds and on conviction on indictment to a customs penalty of any amount or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

Section 8 Modification and revocation of licences, etc

(1) A licence granted by the Secretary of State in pursuance of article 4(a) or having effect as if so granted may be modified or revoked by him at any time.

(2) Any permission granted by the proper officer of Customs and Excise for the shipment of any goods as ships' stores may be modified or revoked by such officer at any time.

Section 9 Revocations

The Orders specified in Schedule 3 hereto are hereby revoked.

A

chemical vapour deposition (CVD)

B

electron-beram physical vapour deposition (EB-PVD)

C

electro-phoretic deposition

D

pack cementation

E

plasma spraying (high velocity or low pressure only)

F

slurry deposition

G

sputtering (high rate, reactive or radio frequency only)

H

ion implantation

A

The definitions of processes specified in column 1 of the Table are as follows:

(a) “Chemical Vapour Deposition” (CVD) is an overlay coating or surface modification coating process wherein a metal, alloy composite or ceramic is deposited upon a heated substrate. Gaseous reactants are reduced or combined in the vicinity of a substrate resulting in the deposition of the desired elemental, alloyed or compounded material on the substrate. Energy for this decomposition or chemical reaction process is provided by the heat of the substrate.

(1) CVD includes the following processes: out-of-pack, pulsating, controlled nucleation thermal decomposition (CNTD), plasma enhanced or plasma assisted processes.

(2) “Pack” means a substrate immersed in a powder mixture.

(3) The gaseous material utilized in an out-of-pack process is produced using the same basic reactions and parameters as the pack cementation process, except that the substrate to be coated is not in contact wth the powder mixture.

(b) “Electron beam physical vapour deposition” ( EB PVD ) is an overlay coating process conducted in a vacuum chamber, wherein an electron beam is directed onto the surface of a coating material causing vaporization of the material and resulting in condensation of the resultant vapours onto a substrate positioned appropriately, and includes a case where gases are added to the chamber during the processing.

(c) “Electrophoretic deposition” is a surface modification coating or overlay coating process in which finely divided particles of a coating material suspended in a liquid dielectric medium migrate under the influence of an electrostatic field and are deposited on an electronically coducting substrate.

NB:

Heat treatment of parts after coating materials have been deposited on the substrate, in order to obtain the desired coating, is an essential step in the process.

(d) “Pack cementation” is a surface modification coating or overlay coating process wherein a substrate is immersed in a powder mixture, a so-called pack, that consists of:

(1) the metallic powders that are to be deposited (usually aluminium, chromium, silicon or combinations thereof);

(2) an activator (normally a halide salt); and

(3) an inert powder, most frequently alumina.

The substrate and powder mixture is contained within a retort which is heated to between 1030 K to 1375 K for sufficient time to deposit the coating.

(e) “Plasma spraying” is an overlay coating process wherein a gun (spray torch), which produces and controls a plasma, accepts powdered coating materials, melts them and propels them towards a substrate, whereon an integrally bonded coating is formed.

For this purpose

(1) “High velocity” means more than 750 metres per second.

(2) “Low pressure” means less than ambient atmospheric pressure.

(f) “Slurry deposition” is a surface modification coating or overlay coating process wherein a metallic or ceramic powder with an organic binder is suspended in a liquid and is aaplied to a substrate by either spraying, dipping or painting; subsequently air or oven dried, and heat treated to obtain the desired coating.

(g) “Sputtering” is an overlay coating process wherein positively charged ions are accelerated by an electric field towards the surface of a target (coating material). The kinetic energy of the impacting ions is sufficient to cause target surface atoms to be released and despoited on the substrate.

NB:

Triode, magnetron or radio frequency sputtering to increase adhesion of coating and rate of despoition are included.

(h) “Ion implantation” is a surface modification coating process in which the element to be alloyed is ionized, accelerated through a potential gradient and implanted into the surface region of the substrate. The definition includes processes in which the source of the ions is a plasma surrounding the substrate and processes in which ion implantation is performed simultaneously wth electron beam physical vapour deposition or sputtering.

(i) “Cathodic arc deposition” employs a cathode which is consumable and has an arc discharge established on the surface by a momentary contact of ground trigger. Arc spots form and begin to erode randomly but uniformly the cathode surface creating a highly ionised plasma. The anode can be either a cone attached to the periphery of the cathode through an insulator or the chamber can be used as an anode. Substrates appropriately positioned receive deposits from the ionised plasma. Substrate biasing is used for non-line-of-sight deposition. A gas can be introduced in the vicinity of the substrate surface in order to react during deposition to synthesise compound coatings.

B

The definitions of other terms used in the Table are as follows—

(1) “Coating process” includes coating repair and refurbishing as well as original coating.

(2) Multiple-stage coatings in which an element or elements are desposited prior to application of the aluminide coating, even if these elements are deposited by another coating process, are included in the term “alloyed aluminide coating”, but the multiple use of single-stage pack cementation processes to achieve alloyed aluminides is not included in the term “alloyed aluminide coating”.

(3) Multiple-stage coatings in which the noble metal or noble metals are laid down by some other coating process prior to application of the aluminide coating are included in the term “noble metal modified aluminide coating”.

(4) “Mixtures” consist of infiltrated material, graded compositions, co-deposits and multilayer deposits and are obtained by one or more of the coating processes specified in this table.

(5) “MCrA1X” refers to an alloy where M equals cobalt, iron, nickel or combinations thereof and X equals hafnium, yttrium, silicon or other minor additions in various proportions and combinations.

(6) “Aluminium alloys” as a substrate in this Table means alloys usable at temperqatures above 500 K (227°C).

(7) “Corrosion resistant steel” means such steel as complies with AISI (American Iron and Steel Institute) 300 series or equivalent national standard for steels.

(8) “Refractory metals” as a substrate in this Table means the following metals and their alloys: niobium (columbium), molybdenum, tungsten and tantalum.

There shall be excluded from this entry technology for single-stage pack cementation of solid air foils.

Robots, robot controllers and robot end-effectors the following: and specially designed components and specially designed ODMA software therefor—

Note: for the purposes of this entry specially designed components includes mechanical structures.

Robots having any of the following characteristics—

(1) capable of employing feedback information in real-time processing from one or more sensors to generate or modify programmes or to generate or modify numerical programme data

except—

robots capable of using only information derived from sensors which can be used to measure—

the internal state of the robot, ie, velocity, position (by other than inertial position measuring systems), drive motor current or voltage, fluid or gas pressure or temperature;

through-the-arc current (or voltage) for weld seam tracking; or

binary or scalar values for:

determing the position of the robot relative to a work piece;

tool drive motor voltage or current or hydraulic/pneumatic pressure for determination of force or torque; or

external safety functions.

robots capable of using only information derived from vision systems having any of the following characteristics—

capable of processing no more than 100,000 pixels using an industrial television camera, or no more than 65,536 pixels using a solid-state camera;

using a single scene analysis processor having neither a word size of more than 16-bit (excluding parity bits) not parallel processing for the same task;

Note: Systems with a 16-bit word length and not more than a 32-bit architecture are regarded as 16-bit systems for the purposes of this exception.

software not capable of full three-dimensional mathematical modelling or full three-dimensional scene analysis;

Note: Approximation of the third dimension by viewing at a given angle or limited grey scale interpretation for the perception of depth or texture (2½D) is included.

having no user-accessible programmability other than by input reference images through the system’s camera; or

capable of no more than one scene analysis every 0.1 second.

robots capable of using only information derived from end-effectors not specified in head (c) below.

(2) specially designed to comply with national safety standards applicable to explosive munitions environments

(3) incorporating means of protecting hydraulic lines against externally induced punctures caused by ballistic fragments (e.g. incorporating self-sealing lines) and designed to use hydraulic fluids with flash points higher than 839 K (566°C)

(4) specially designed for underwater use such as those incorporating special techniques or components for sealing, pressure compensation or corrosion resistance

(5) operable at altitudes exceeding 30,000 metres

(6) specially designed for outdoor applications and meeting military specifications therefor

(7) specially designed or rated for operating in an electromagnetic pulse ( EMP ) environment

(8) specially designed or rated as radiation-hardened beyond that necessary to withstand normal industrial (other than nuclear industry) ionising radiation

(9) equipped with a robot manipulator arms which contain fibrous and filamentary materials specified in entry IL1763 in Group 3I

(10) equipped with precision measuring devices specified in entry IL1532 in Group 3F

(11) specially designed to move autonomously its entire structure through three-dimensional space in a simultaneously co-ordinated manner, except systems in which the robot moves along a fixed path

Note:

This head (a) does not include robots specially designed for household use or those modified from household robots for preuniversity educational purposes not specified elsewhere in this entry

(b) Electronic controllers for robots having any of the following characteristics—

(1) controllers specially designed to be part of a robot specified in sub head (a) (2) to (8), (10) or (11) above

(2) minimum programmable increment less (finer) than 0.001 mm per linear axis

(3) having more than one integral interface which meets or exceeds ANSI/IEEE standard 488-1978, IEC publication 625-1 or any equivalent standard for parallel data exchange

(4) capable of being programmed by means of other than lead-through, key-in (such as without processing, on-line or off-line) or teach-pendant techniques

(5) word size exceeds 16 bit (excluding parity bits)

Note: systems with a 16-bit word length and not more than a 32-bit architecture are regarded as 16-bit systems for the purpose of this sub-head.

(6) incorporating interpolation algorithms for an order of interpolation higher than two

(7) generation or modification by one-line, real-time processing of the programmed path, velocity and functions other than the following—

(i) manual velocity override;

(ii) linear, rotary or Cartesian offset;

(iii) manual robot path editing (including manual path compensation) excluding source language used to programme automatically the robot path, velocity or runction;

(iv) branching to pre-programmed modification of robot path, velocity or function;

(v) fixed cycles (e.g. macro instructions or pre-programmed sub-routines); or

(vi) keyed-in or teach-in modifications;

except controllers limited to operations with robots included in any of the exceptions to head (a).

(c) End-effectors having any of the following characteristics—

(1) having integrated computer-aided data processing, except those using sensors used to measure the parameters or values described in exception 1 to head (a)(1) above.

(2) equipped with an integral interface which meets or exceeds ANSI/IEEE Standard 488-1978, IEC publication 625-1, or any equivalent standard for parallel data exchange

(3) having any of the characteristics specified in sub-heads (a)(2) to (8) and (10) above

In this entry—

“robot” means a manipulation mechanism, which may be of the continuous path or of the point-to-point variety, may use sensors, is multifunctional and capable of positioning or orienting material, parts, tools or special devices through variable movements in three dimensional space. It incorporates three or more closed or open loop servo-devices which may include stepping motors; and has user-accessible programmability by means of teach/playback method or by means of an electronic computer which may be a programmable logic controller, without mechanical intervention. “Robot” does not include the following devices—

Manipulation mechanisms which are only manually/teleoperator controllable;

Fixed sequence manipulation mechanisms which are automated moving devices, operating accordingly to mechanically fixed programmed motions, where the programme is mechanically limited by fixed stops, such as pins or cams, and the sequence of motions and the selection of paths or angles are not variable or changeable by mechanical, electronic or electrical means;

Mechanically controlled variable sequence manipulation mechanisms which are automated moving devices, operating according to mechanically fixed programmed motions, where the programme is mechanically limited by fixed, but adjustable stops, such as pins or cams, or the sequence of motions and the selection of paths or angles are variable within the fixed programme pattern, and variations or modifications of the programme pattern (eg, changes of pins or exchanges of cams) in one or more motion axes are accomplished only through mechanical operations;

Non-servo-controlled variable sequence manipulation mechanisms which are automated moving devices, operating according to mechanically fixed programmed motions and the programme is variable but the sequence proceeds only by the binary signal from mechanically fixed electrical binary devices or adjustable stops;

Stacker cranes which are Cartesian coordinate manipulator systems manufactured as an integral part of a vertical array of storage bins and designed to access the contgents of those bins for storage or retrieval;

“end-effectors” include grippers, active tooling units being devices for applying motive power, process energy or sensing to the workpiece and any other tooling that is attached to the baseplate on the end of the robot’s manipulator arm(s);

“active tooling unit” is a device for applying motive power, process energy or sensing to the workpiece;

“sensor” means a detector of a physical phenomenon, the output of which (after conversion into a signal that can be interpreted by a controller) is able to generate programmes or modify programmed instructions or numerical programme data. This includes sensors with machine vision, infrared imaging, acoustical imaging, tactile feel, inertial position measuring, optical or acoustic ranging or force or torque measuring capabilities.

Software and technology for automatically controlled industrial systems, to produce assemblies or discrete parts, the following—

(a) Softward with all the following characteristics—

(1) specially designed for automatically controlled industrial systems which include at least eight items of the following equipment in any combination—

(a) machine tools or dimensional inspection machines specified in head (b) of entry IL1091 in Group 3A or IL1370 in this Group;

(b) robots specified in entry IL1391 in this Group;

(c) digitally controlled spin-forming or flow-forming machines specified in the entry IL1075 in Group 3A;

(d) digitally controlled equipment of the type specified in entry IL1080, IL1081, IL1086 or IL1088 in Group 3A;

(e) digitally controlled electric arc devices specified in the entry IL1206 in Group 3C;

(f) digitally controlled equipment of the type specified in the entry IL1354 or IL1355 (head(b)) of this Group;

(g) digitally controlled equipment of the type specified in the entry IL1357 in this Group;

(h) digitally controlled electronic equipment of the type specified in the entry IL1529 in Group 3F;

(i) any digitally controlled measuring system specified in entry IL1529 in Group 3F

(2) integrating, in a hierarchical manner, while having access to data which may be stored outside the supervisory digital computer, the manufacturing processes with—

(i) design functions; or

(ii) planning and scheduling functions;

(3)

(i) automatically generating and verifying the manufacturing data and instructions, includng selection of equipment and sequences of manufacturing operations, for the manufacturing processes, from design and manufacturing data; or

(ii) automatically reconfiguring the automatically controlled industrial system through reselecting equipment and sequences of manufacturing operation by real-time processing of data pertaining to anticipated but unscheduled events;

except—

software which only provides rescheduling of functionally identical equipment within flexible manufacturing units using prestored part programmes and a prestored strategy for the distribution of the part programmes; and

software (in machine executable form only) for industrial sectors other than nuclear, aerospace, shipbuilding, heavy vehicles, machine building, microelectronics and electronics.

(b) Technology for the design of automatically controlled industrial systems which will be used with the software specified in head (a) above, whether the conditions required by subhead (a)(1) above are met

In this entry

an “automatically controlled industrial system” is a combination of:

one or more flexible manufacturing units; and

a supervisory digital computer for coordination of the independent sequences of computer instructions to, from and within the flexible manufacturing units;

a “flexible manufacturing unit” is an entity which comprises a combination of a digital computer including its own main storage and its own ralated equipment and at least one of the pieces of equipment referred to in sub-head (a)(1)(a) to (i) inclusive in this entry.

I

Materials and manufacturing procedures

Ceramic, ceramic-composite or composite hot-section components (combuster, turbine blades and vanes, seals, discs, flow path)

Turbine blades on basis of directional solidification or monocrystal technology

directional solidification

monocrystal technology

Turbine blades consisting of several parts connected by diffusion bonding

Fibre technology in frames or in highly stressed discs, casings, blades and vanes

Protective coating technology for air-cooled turbine blades and vanes with internal and external cooling passages and their related flow paths capable of operating in high gas temperature environments (in excess of 1,499°C), irrespective of the actual gas temperature environment in which they will be used, involving applications of metallic or ceramic material by vapour, pack, plasma, electron beam, sputtering or sintering processes

Metallic coatings

plasma sprayed

other

Ceramic Coatings

Application of powder metallurgy for fan compressor and turbine blades or vanes; discs, wheels, reduction gears, engine main shafts and frames

discs

fan, compressor and turbine blades or vanes, wheels, reduction gears, engine main shafts and frames

Cooled components on basis of electrostream or laser drilling methods;

electrostream drilling

laser drilling

Electron beam drilling for small holes in turbine blades and vanes

Titanium or superalloy—casting on basis of centrifugal techniques

Ceramic core casting technology for casting holes in turbine blades and vanes

II

Construction methods

Adjustable flow path geometry and associated control systems for:

fans

gas generator turbine(s)

fan/power turbine(s)

propelling nozzles

(Adjustable flow path geometry and associated control systems do not include: inlet guide vanes, variable pitch fans, variable stators or bleed valves for compressors.)

Full authority or hybrid digital electronic control and respective sensor equipment

High temperature (capable of utilizing gases heated above 1,100°C) heat exchangers for preheating compressor exit air

Combustors with combustion in several stages

Maintenance of compressor or turbine tip clearance through methods employing active compensating casing technology:

compressor alone

turbine alone

compressor and turbine

Ceramic bearings

Nozzles with thrust vectoring (not including reverse thrust)

A

Rotor heads, containing:

Hot-isostatically pressed materials

B

Gear boxes, containing:

Novikoff-type gears

Gears or gear support structures based on materials applying directional solidification or monocrystal technology

High contact-ratio double-helical (arrow-shaped) gears

Fibre technology

Hot-isostatically pressed components

Gear tooth surfaces hardened by vacuum carburizing or ion nitriding

C

Drive shaft systems containing super-critical drive shafts

II

Construction methods

A

Components fabricated by diffusion bonding

B

High-survivability loss-of-lubrication technology for high-speed bearings (DN equal to or greater than 2.4 million where D is expressed in millimetres and N in rpm)

Section 1

“special fissile materials” means plutonium-239, uranium-233, uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233, and any material containing the foregoing.

Section 1

The period of civil use referred to in heads (c) and (d) above begins with the date that the particular engine or helicopter power transfer system (model and specifications) or its most recent modification was certified as airworthy for commercial service or commercial navigability under the standards and requirements of the government of the country in which it was manufactured: modification does not include minor safety or operational changes which do not significantly enhance the performance of a particular gas turbine aero-engine or improve its reliability. For the purposes of this entry:

(a) A gas turbine aero-engine which is recertified as the result of incorporating any technology listed in Table 1 below is to be treated as a newly certified engine. Recertification which does not result from incorporation of such technology, or modifications which do not require recertification by national authorities, will not affect the period of civil use of the engine;

(b) Modification of a gas turbine APU by incorporation of any technology listed in Table 1 will cause it to be treated as a new APU. Other modifications will not affect the period of civil use of the APU.

(c) Modification of a helicopter power transfer system by incorporation of any technology listed in Table 2 will restart the period of civil use for the helicopter power transfer system as though it were newly certified in a helicopter. Other modifications will not affect the period of civil use of the helicopter power transfer system.

Section 1

Materials and manufacturing procedures

Section 2

“uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233” means uranium containing the isotopes 235 or 233, or both, in an amount such that the abundance ratio of the sum of these isotopes to the isotope 238 is more than the ratio of the isotope 235 to the isotope 238 occurring in nature (isotope ratio 0.72 per cent);

Section 2

This entry does not include gas turbine engines, APUs and helicopter power transfer systems for civil use and modifications (and technology therefore) certified or re-certified for civil use, as described in Note 1 prior to the 1st January 1979, other than:

Helicopters over 4,530 kg empty weight, and power transmissions systems therefor.

Note: Empty weight is understood to include normal installation and normal minimum crew, but does not include fuel or payload.

Aero-engines, the following—

Piston engines;

Jet engines of less than 2,625 kg thrust;

Turboprop or turboshaft engines of less than 2,500 horsepower or with a residual thrust of less than 453 kg.

Section 3

“other fissile material” means previously separated americium-242m, curium-245 and -247, californium-249 and -251 isotopes of plutonium other than -239, and any material containing the foregoing;

Section 3

Head (d) above does not include those engines which contain none of the technologies listed in Table 1 below for use in civil aircraft or civil helicopters.

Section 4

“effective gramme” of special or other fissile material is defined as follows:

(a) for plutonium isotopes and uranium-233, the isotope weight in grammes;

(b) for uranium enriched 1 per cent or greater in the isotope U-235, the element weight in grammes multiplied by the square or its enrichment expressed as a decimal weight fraction;

(c) for uranium enriched below 1 per cent in the esotope U-235, the element weight in grammes multiplied by 0.0001;

(d) for americium-242m, curium-245 and -247, and californium-249 and -251, the esotope weight to grammes multiplied by 10.

Section 5

For the purposes of this item the term “previously separated” means the application of any process intended to increase the concentration of the controlled isotope.