S.I. No. 405/1983:

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1983.

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1983.

I, JOHN BRUTON, Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Control of Exports Act, 1983 (No. 35 of 1983), and after consultation in relation to Articles 3 and 4 of this Order with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Control of Exports Order, 1983.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1984.

2. In this Order:--

"appropriate officer" means, in the case of articles being exported by parcel post, an officer of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and, in any other case, the proper officer of Customs and Excise.

"end use import certificate" means a certificate issued by the Minister certifying that an importer has undertaken with him to import into the State the articles specified in the certificate and not to export those articles, otherwise than to Northern Ireland and Great Britain, save under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Minister.

"the Minister" means the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.

3. The exportation of any articles specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, otherwise than to other Member States of the European Communities, is hereby prohibited save under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Minister.

4. The exportation of any articles specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order or any articles specified in an end use import certificate, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, otherwise than to Northern Ireland and Great Britain, is hereby prohibited save under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Minister.

5. This Order shall not apply to the exportation of articles in relation to which the appropriate officer is satisfied that such articles--

(a) are being exported for repair and return,

(b) are travellers' samples being exported after being imported temporarily,

(c) are travellers' samples being exported temporarily to be subsequently re-imported,

(d) are being re-exported to the country from which they were imported as a result of being refused by the consignees,

(e) are used containers of any material or description which are being re-exported empty to the sender, or

(f) are being re-exported after having been temporarily imported under and in accordance with an international convention to which the State is a party.

6. Where any articles specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, are entered for export to Northern Ireland or Great Britain, no person shall deliver, or cause, procure or facilitate in any manner the delivery of such articles at any destination, other than a destination in Northern Ireland or Great Britain, as the case may be.

7. The Control of Exports Order, 1982 ( S.I. No. 387 of 1982 ), is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

PART I

Articles the export of which is controlled to places other than other Member States of the European Communities.

Waste and scrap metal of iron and steel.

Aluminium waste and scrap.

Waste and scrap of copper and copper alloys.

Ash and residues of copper and copper alloys.

Lead waste and scrap.

PART II

Articles the export of which is controlled to places other than Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

Aircraft and parts thereof.

Arms, ammunition, explosives and military and naval stores and equipment.

Chemical elements and compounds; metalloids.

Electrical goods and apparatus and parts thereof.

Electronic and precision instruments and parts thereof.

Graphite, artificial.

Iron and steel and manufactures thereof.

Non-ferrous ores, metals and manufactures thereof.

Products manufactured from petroleum derivatives, excluding fuels.

Plant, equipment, machinery and component parts thereof.

Synthetic film for dielectric use (condenser tissue).

Synthetic rubber.

Scientific instruments and apparatus (including high speed cameras) and parts therefor.

Ships and parts thereof.

Vehicles (including tractors) and parts thereof.

PART III

Articles excepted from lists of articles set out in Part I and Part II.

Antiques.

Appliances, apparatus, accessories and requisites (including gaming machines) for sports, games, gymnastics or athletics.

Appliances, equipment, utensils (including cooking, heating, washing and cleaning apparatus) suitable only for domestic use.

Beads.

Belldomes and gongs.

Binoculars.

Book-ends.

Brooms and brushes.

Buttons.

Church furniture and church requisites.

Cigar and cigarette cases and boxes and articles of which such cases or boxes form part.

Cigar and cigarette holders.

Clocks.

Coins.

Combs.

Chemicals as follows:

Cosmetics, detergents, disinfectants, fungicides, glycerine (crude), gypsum, hair lotion, insecticides, ochre, perfumery, rat poisons, sheep dips, synthetic tanning materials, weed-killers, dyes and colours, menthol, citric acid, calcium citrate, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, gluconic acid, sodium gluconate, ferrous gluconate, calcium gluconate, glucono-delta-lactone.

Electrical glass bulbs.

Fancy blotters.

Flapjacks.

Fountain pens and pencils.

Haberdashery.

Hotel-ware made from imported stampings.

Inkstands.

Iron and steel manufactures as follows:

Children's carriages and accessories therefor, crown corks, hand implements, metal coffin mountings, pedal cycles, razor blades and textile card clothing.

Jewellery and jewellery boxes.

Lanterns.

Lipstick containers.

Manicure sets.

Manufactures of silver, electro-plate and nickel silver.

Mechanical lighters.

Medals.

Medical and medicinal preparations.

Musical instruments and accessories therefor.

Nail cleaners, clippers, files and polishers.

Non-ferrous ores and metals as follows:

Copper, copper ores and concentrates, lead ores and concentrates, zinc ores and concentrates, zinc flux skimmings, silver ore and concentrates and mercury.

Outboard engines.

Pipes for smoking tobacco and parts thereof.

Photograph and picture frames.

Powder bowls, boxes, puffs.

Radio receiving sets (domestic), radiograms and accessories therefor.

Road motor vehicles as follows not designed for military purposes:

motor cars (including taxis), motor cycles, motor trucks, vans, lorries and station wagons.

Smokers' ash receptacles.

Souvenirs.

Spectacles and parts thereof.

Spring interior mattresses and bases therefor.

Toys.

Vacuum Flasks.

Weaving reeds.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 21st day of December, 1983.

JOHN BRUTON,

Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to enable the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism to control, for supply and other reasons, the export of the commodities indicated in the Order and, in respect of the commodities mentioned in Part I of the Schedule, to harmonise Irish law relating to the control of exports with that of the European Communities.