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"The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies" is an arms control
arrangement with 33 participating states. It was established after the end of the Cold War as the successor to COCOM. A Secretariat for administrating the agreement is located in Vienna, Austria.
- The outline of the arrangement is set out in a document entitled "Initial Elements" [1] adopted in July 1996 and updated in December 2001.
- The 1996 list of technologies can be found at [2]. Software is not included as a restricted technology if it is "generally available to the public" or "in the public domain".
The 33 founding states were: Argentina, Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania, HungaryThe Republic of Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It is known locally as the Country of the Magyars or Magyarorszag''. Magyar Koztarsasag ( In Detail) ( Full s, IrelandThe Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hEireann is the common term for a state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of northwest Europe. It is the western-most state of the European Union. The remaining sixt, ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer, JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh,
LuxembourgThe Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (also Luxemburg is a landlocked state in the north-west of the continental European Union, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium. Grand-Duche de LuxembourgGrossherzogtum LuxemburgGroussherzogtum (Grand-Duche) Letzebuerg ( I, NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium, New ZealandFor alternative meanings, see New Zealand (disambiguation). New Zealand is a country formed of two major islands and a number of smaller islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. A common Mori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa popularly translated as Land, Norway,
Poland, Republic of Korea, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.
As of March 2002, it seems that no other states have joined the arrangement
since it was founded.
