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The Wassenaar Arrangement (not to be confused with the Wassenaar Agreement), (full name: The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies) is a multilateral export control regime (MECR) with 41 participating states including many former COMECON (Warsaw Pact) countries. The Wassenaar Arrangement was established to contribute to regional and international security and stability by promoting transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies, thus preventing destabilizing accumulations. Participating States seek, through their national policies, to ensure that transfers of these items do not contribute to the development or enhancement of military capabilities which undermine these goals, and are not diverted to support such capabilities. It is the successor to the Cold War-era Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM), and was established on 12 July 1996, in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, which is near The Hague. The Wassenaar Arrangement is considerably less strict than COCOM, focusing primarily on the transparency of national export control regimes and not granting veto power to individual members over organizational decisions. A Secretariat for administering the agreement is located in Vienna, Austria. Like COCOM, however, it is not a treaty, and therefore is not legally binding. Every six months member countries exchange information on deliveries of conventional arms to non-Wassenaar members that fall under eight broad weapons categories: battle tanks, armored combat vehicles (ACVs), large-caliber artillery, military aircraft, military helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems, and small arms and light weapons. == Control lists == The outline of the arrangement is set out in a document entitled "Guidelines & Procedures, including the Initial Elements".〔(Guidelines & Procedures, including the Initial Elements ) The Wassenaar Arrangement〕 The (list of restricted technologies ) is broken into two parts, the "List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies" (also known as the ''Basic List'') and the "Munitions List". The Basic List is composed of ten categories based on increasing levels of sophistication: * Category 1 – Special Materials and Related Equipment * Category 2 – Materials Processing * Category 3 – Electronics * Category 4 – Computers * Category 5 – Part 1 – Telecommunications * Category 5 – Part 2 – "Information Security" * Category 6 – Sensors and "Lasers" * Category 7 – Navigation and Avionics * Category 8 – Marine * Category 9 – Aerospace and Propulsion Basic List has two nested subsections—Sensitive and Very Sensitive. Items of the Very Sensitive List include materials for stealth technology— The Munitions List has 22 categories, which are not labeled. In order for an item to be placed on the lists, Member States must take into account the following (criteria ): * Foreign availability outside Participating States * Ability to effectively control the export of the goods * Ability to make a clear and objective specification of the item. * Controlled by another regime, such as the Australia Group, Nuclear Suppliers Group, or Missile Technology Control Regime 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wassenaar Arrangement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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