Traduction de «Technologie de la double cadence de transfert » (Français → Anglais) :

K. whereas the EU legislation on dual-use goods regulates the export, transfer, brokering, and transit of such goods and is governed by Regulation (EU) No 388/2012; whereas an updated list of dual-use goods and technologies under the Wassenaar Arrangement was adopted in February 2012, but the large majority of dual-use goods products, particularly in the field of surveillance technology, are still not covered by a legally binding export control system;

L. whereas the EU legislation on dual-use goods regulates the export, transfer, brokering, and transit of such goods and is governed by Regulation (EU) No 388/2012; whereas an updated list of dual-use goods and technologies under the Wassenaar Arrangement was adopted in February 2012, but the large majority of dual-use goods products, particularly in the field of surveillance technology, are still not covered by a legally binding export control system;

10. Welcomes the directives on procurement and transfers, which aim to increase competition and transparency and facilitate technology transfer; encourages, on the basis of pooling and sharing of initiatives, greater consolidation of demand through joint RT projects or through bundling of demand for shared capabilities, taking into account the concerns of the defence industry, including SMEs, and recognising that it is not always ...[+++]economically efficient or feasible for the defence industries of each Member State to act entirely on their own; asks the Commission to support the defence industrial and technological base by establishing a procedure for Community preference due to the specificities of certain defence equipment for which it is important to maintain strategic autonomy and operational sovereignty; notes that on the supply side, less competitive companies that cannot implement an export-led growth strategy should pursue portfolio diversification from defence goods towards civil security or dual use of goods, although some degree of supply consolidation is unavoidable;

2. Annex I shall include goods and technology, including software, which are dual-use items or technology as defined in Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items, except for the goods and technology defined in Category 5 of Annex I to that Regulation which are not included in the Nuclear Suppliers Group and Missile Technology Control Regime lists.

The areas covered are, among others: the extension of controls to cover transit, transhipment[2], brokering and re-exports; the clarification of the content of controls of intangible transfers of technology; the establishment of a comitology procedure for the adoption of lists of controlled items; the improvement of sharing of information on national controls on non-listed items according appropriate security standards; the improvement of sharing of information on denials with the possibility to introduce a secure electronic system between the Commission, Member States and the Council; international cooperation with third countries, ...[+++] providing for possibilities of adopting ad-hoc export control rules in the case of specific EC-funded projects involving potential access by third countries to the EU dual use technologies; insertion in the recasted Article 21 of the reference to criminal sanctions at least for serious infringements of the provisions of the Regulation and of the regulations adopted by Member States for its implementation so as to respond to the call in the European Council declaration on criminal sanctions of June 2004, and to the call by UN Security Council Resolution 1540 for the introduction of appropriate civil or criminal penalties for violations of such export control regulations; the replacement of the remaining intra-Community controls by a system consisting of prior-notification of shipments; provision for the establishment by national authorities of indicative deadlines for the processing of applications for export authorisations, and of deadlines for the treatment of requests for information from licensing authorities concerning the application of national controls on non listed items and technologies.

Funding for human resource development in the Sixth Framework Programme has been doubled in money terms, with a potentially important effect on less favoured regions through technology transfer schemes.