Defence-related products and firearms

ML 1: Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of less than 20 mm, other arms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12,7 mm (calibre 0,50 inches) or less and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor

ML 2: Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of 20 mm or more, other weapons or armament with a calibre greater than 12,7 mm (calibre 0,50 inches), projectors specially designed or modified for military use and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor

ML 3: Ammunition and fuze setting devices, as follows, and specially designed components therefor

ML 4: Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and related equipment and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor

ML 5: Fire control, surveillance and warning equipment, and related systems, test and alignment and countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor

ML 6: Ground vehicles and components

ML 7: Chemical agents, ‘biological agents’, ‘riot control agents’, radioactive materials, related equipment, components and materials

ML 8: ‘Energetic materials’, and related substances

ML 9: Vessels of war (surface or underwater), special naval equipment, accessories, components and other surface vessels

ML 10:‘Aircraft’, ‘lighter-than-air vehicles’, ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (‘UAVs’), aero-engines and ‘aircraft’ equipment, related equipment, and components, as follows, specially designed or modified for military use:

ML 11: Electronic equipment, ‘spacecraft’ and components, not specified elsewhere in this Annex

ML 12: High velocity kinetic energy weapon systems and related equipment, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

ML 13: Armoured or protective equipment, constructions, components, and accessories

ML 14: ‘Specialised equipment for military training’ or for simulating military scenarios, simulators specially designed for training in the use of any firearm or weapon specified by ML1 or ML2, and specially designed components and accessories therefor.

ML 15: Imaging or countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:

ML 16: Forgings, castings and other unfinished products, specially designed for items specified by ML1 to ML4, ML6, ML9, ML10, ML12 or ML19.

ML 17: Miscellaneous equipment, materials and ‘libraries’, as follows, and specially designed components therefor

ML 18: ‘Production’ equipment, environmental test facilities and components

ML 19: Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) systems, related or countermeasure equipment and test models, as follows, and specially designed components therefor

ML 20: Cryogenic and ‘superconductive’ equipment, as follows, and specially designed components and accessories therefor

ML 21: ‘Software’

ML 22: ‘Technology’

1. Semi-automatic or repeating short firearms

2. Single-shot short firearms with centre-fire percussion

3. Single-shot short firearms with rimfire percussion whose overall length is less than 28 cm

4. Semi-automatic long firearms whose magazine and chamber can together hold more than three rounds

5. Semi-automatic long firearms whose magazine and chamber cannot together hold more than three rounds, where the loading device is removable or where it is not certain that the weapon cannot be converted, with ordinary tools, into a weapon whose magazine and chamber can together hold more than three rounds.

6. Repeating and semi-automatic long firearms with smooth-bore barrels not exceeding 60 cm in length

7. Semi-automatic firearms for civilian use which resemble weapons with automatic mechanisms

8. Repeating long firearms other than those listed in point 6

9. Long firearms with single-shot rifled barrels

10. Semi-automatic long firearms other than those in points 4 to 7

11. Single-shot short firearms with rimfire percussion whose overall length is not less than 28 cm

12. Single-shot long firearms with smooth-bore barrels

13. Parts specifically designed for a firearm and essential to its operation, including a barrel, frame or receiver, slide or cylinder, bolt or breech block, and any device designed or adapted to diminish the sound caused by firing a firearm.
Any essential component of such firearms: the breech-closing mechanism, the chamber and the barrel of a firearm which, being separate objects, are included in the category of the firearms on which they are or are intended to be mounted

14. Ammunition: the complete round or the components thereof, including cartridge cases, primers, propellant powder, bullets or projectiles, that are used in a firearm, provided that those components are themselves subject to authorisation in the relevant Member State

15. Collections and collectors’ pieces of historical interest. Antiques of an age exceeding 100 years