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2016/0295(COD)

Dual-Use Items Export Controls Regulation (Recast)

Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL setting up a Union regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering, technical assistance and transit of dual-use items (recast)

Stage
In force, reached 11 Jun 2021
In force
In force since 9 Sept 2021 · CELEX 32021R0821
Procedure
Regulation · Ordinary legislative procedure
Last activity
9 Sept 2021
3 entries · record as of 30 Sept 2026

Where it stands

Latest: Delegated act adopted: Controls on export - list of dual-use items (amendments), 14 Sept 2026.

  1. 26 Jun 2026
    • Delegated act adopted: Dual-use items - Control of exports/brokering/technical assistance/transit/transfer (correction of l
  2. 1 Sept 2026
    • Delegated act published: Dual-use items - Control of exports/brokering/technical assistance/transit/transfer (correction of l
  3. 14 Sept 2026
    • Delegated act adopted: Controls on export - list of dual-use items (amendments)
99 amendments

Amendments

Tabled between 12 Jan 2018 and 17 Mar 2021. The texts are in the amendment documents below.

By committee

  • INTA98

Covers 98 of the 99 amendments.

By author

  • Bernd Lange1

Amendments each member tabled or co-signed, among signers matched to our directory. The record names a matched author on 1 of the 99 amendments.

By article

  • Annex I – Section A – DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THIS ANNEX1
  • Annex I – Section B – category 10 – point 10A001 – Technical note – point e a (new)1
  • Annex I – Section B – title1
  • Annex II – Section A – part 3 – paragraph 31
  • Annex II – Section A – part 3 – paragraph 41
  • Annex II – Section A – part 3 – paragraph 5 – point 41
  • Annex II – Section B – part 3 – paragraph 31
  • Annex II – Section B – part 3 – paragraph 5 – point 41
  • Annex II – Section C – part 3 – paragraph 51
  • Annex II – Section C – part 3 – paragraph 6 – point 41
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  • Annex II – Section D – part 3 – paragraph 61
  • Annex II – Section D – part 3 – paragraph 7 – point 41
  • Annex II – Section F – part 3 – paragraph 5 – point 41
  • Annex II – Section G – part 3 – paragraph 8 – point 41
  • Annex II – Section H – part 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part and point 11
  • Annex II – Section H – part 3 – paragraph 1 – point 21
  • Annex II – Section H – part 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 21
  • Annex II – Section I – part 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 11
  • Annex II – Section J – part 3 – paragraph 5 – point 41
  • Article 10 – paragraph 31
  • Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 11
  • Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 21
  • Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3 – introductory part1
  • Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3 – point d1
  • Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3 – point d a (new)1
  • Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3 – point d b (new)1
  • Article 10 – paragraph 51
  • Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 21
  • Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)1
  • Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part1

Covers 30 of the 99 amendments.

10 acts

Delegated and implementing acts beneath it

By status: 7 published, 1 adopted, 1 scrutiny finished, 1 published urgency procedure.

ActKindStatusAdoption
Controls on export - list of dual-use items (amendments)Delegated · RegulationAdoptedQ3 2026
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1405Delegated · RegulationPublished
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2003Delegated · RegulationPublished09/2025
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2547Delegated · RegulationPublishedQ3 2024
Commission Delegated Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2021/821Delegated · RegulationScrutiny finishedQ3 2023
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/996Delegated · RegulationPublishedQ4 2022
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/66Delegated · RegulationPublishedQ3 2022
Delegated Act RussiaDelegated · RegulationPublished urgency procedure
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1Delegated · RegulationPublishedQ3 2021
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2616Delegated · RegulationPublished

Titles link to EUR-Lex where the act has been published.

19 documents

Documents

Newest first. Each opens at its source.

Summary

Generated

Regulation (EU) 2021/821 sets up the Union regime controlling exports, brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use items, requiring authorizations for listed items and for certain non-listed items used in weapons or human rights abuses. It applies to exporters, brokers, and technical assistance providers in the EU. The regulation is in force, as amended through November 2025.

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