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European Commission Updates EU Dual-Use Export Control List

The European Commission updated the European Union dual-use export control list, bringing the list in line with decisions taken under the framework for the international nonproliferation regimes and export control agreements until December 2020, the commission said. The update consists…

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of two main changes. The first includes a note for the control of biocontainment chambers, isolators or biological safety cabinets to include any isolator meeting all the mentioned characteristics in the description of the item, regardless of intended use, the commission said. The second altered the definition of "superalloys" to specify the ultimate tensile strength of the alloys. The new definition defines superalloys as "nickel, cobalt or iron base alloys having a stress rupture life greater than 1 000 hours at 400 MPa and an ultimate tensile strength greater than 850 MPa, at 922 K (649oC) or higher."