Written answers
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Arms Trade
Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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81. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the value of individual dual-use licences for exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates issued in 2017 and the first six months of 2018. [50440/18]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Information on export licences issued by my Department during 2017 are contained in the annual report for 2017, which I published in August 2018, as required by the Control of Exports Act 2008. These data, updated with the corresponding data for the first 6 months of 2018, are set out in Table 1.
Table 1: Individual Export Licences
| 2017 | Jan-Jun 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of licences | Value of licences€ | Number of licences | Value of licences€ | |
| Saudi Arabia | ||||
| Category 1 | 1 | 320,147 | ||
| Category 2 | 1 | 16,000 | ||
| Category 5 | 21 | 7,016,877 | 17 | 11,946,199 |
| United Arab Emirates | ||||
| Category 1 | 1 | 388 | ||
| Category 2 | 3 | 2,277 | 3 | 11,585 |
| Category 5 | 32 | 16,193,022 | 20 | 5,599,046 |
The categories of Dual-use Items are defined in Council Regulation (EC) no 428/2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items:
Category 1 – Special materials and related equipment
Category 2 – Materials processing
Category 5 – Telecommunications and information security
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