Dual-use goods and technologies

The biological weapons (BW) prohibition regime is built around the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), the 1925 Geneva Protocol, and the Australia Group, which expanded its activities from CW-related dual-use goods and technologies into the BW realm in 1990. 

Proliferation concerns and export controls on dual-use goods and technologies... 

The WA seeks to prevent destabilizing buildups of weapons by establishing a formal process of transparency and consultation. Participants have agreed to control through their national policies those items and technologies contained in a list of Dual- Use Goods and Technologies and in a separate Munitions List. 

WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT. A multilateral export control arrangement based in Vienna, Austria. Its full name is the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms Control and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies. Established in 1996, the Wasse-... 

Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, http //www.wassenaar.org. 

Lithium-based batteries are quickly entering mainstream electronic designs, particularly in consumer, portable equipment and non-volatile memory baek-up applications where small size, long life and low eost are the primary requirements. Specifieally, watehes, pacemakers. Kodak s disc camera and Mustek s dual-in-line packaged 16 K CMOS RAM (with on-board battery back-up) arc good examples of deviees making use of the newer lithium battery technologies. 

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