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Largest Economies in EU Have Not Implemented Dual-Use Export Controls

The EU released information Feb. 8 about the status of its member states' implementation of a regime for the brokering, technical assistance, transit, transfer and control of exports of dual-use items. An EU regulation mandated, among other things, that the…

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member states employ a dual-use export control program, but the European Commission found that only eight nations have either partially or fully implemented the program. Those countries are Belgium, Croatia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland. The bloc's largest economies, on the other hand, including France, Germany, Spain and Italy, have not implemented the export controls program.