As a result of Canada’s status as a participating state in the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (the Wassenaar Arrangement) and a separate bilateral arrangement with the United States, certain dual-use and strategic goods and technology are subject to export permit requirements under the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA).
Canada and its major trading partners have implemented similar procedures to streamline processes for the export or transfer of certain controlled goods and technology deemed to be of lower risk.
Since 2015, General Export Permit No. 41 (GEP 41) allows the export of certain lower risk dual-use and strategic goods and technology to certain lower risk eligible destinations by means of a streamlined administrative procedure. This does not include pre-approval from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), as opposed to the standard procedure of having to obtain an individual export permit, which includes pre-approval from GAC. Such items and destinations were determined to be of lower risk from a Canadian foreign and defence policy perspective.
GEP 41 has served its purpose well over the past eight years. It is being amended to make an addition to the list of “unauthorized goods and technology” and to update a reference to a provision in another regulation that has been renumbered.
Objective
The objectives of this amendment to General Export Permit No. 41 — Dual-use Goods and Technology to Certain Destinations are:
to make an addition to the list of “unauthorized goods and technology” for items related to long-range UAVs or rocket systems; and
to address a housekeeping measure to update a reference to a provision in the Export Permits Regulations that has been renumbered.
The amendment to GEP 41 will
make a narrow change to the list of “unauthorized goods and technology” under subsection 3(2) to include the export of items intended for the development, production or use of rocket systems or unmanned aerial vehicles with a range of 300 km or greater; and
reflect in paragraph 3(2)(d) the new numbering of a provision of the EPRs that has changed further to a recent amendment, so as to read “are referred to in any of subparagraphs 3(3)(c)(i) to (iii) of the Export Permits Regulations.”
This notice is available in its entirety on the Global Affairs Canada website.