Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 December 2018
81. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business, 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]
View answerInformation 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
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2017 |
Jan-Jun 2018 |
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Number of licences |
Value of licences€ |
Number of licences |
Value of licences€ |
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Saudi Arabia |
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Category 1 |
1 |
320,147 |
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Category 2 |
1 |
16,000 |
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Category 5 |
21 |
7,016,877 |
17 |
11,946,199 |
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U.A.E. |
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Category 1 |
1 |
388 |
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Category 2 |
3 |
2,277 |
3 |
11,585 |
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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; and
Category 5 – Telecommunications and information security.
