Annex: War Weapons List
(Kriegswaffenliste, KWL) |
As last amended
by the ninth regulation amending the War Weapons List of 26 February 1998,
Federal Law Gazette I, p. 385
Part
A
War Weapons that the Federal Republic of Germany
undertakes not to manufacture (Nuclear weapons, biological and chemical
weapons)
All apparatus, parts, equipment,
installations, substances and organisms, which are used for civilian purposes
or for scientific, medical and industrial research in the fields of pure and
applied science shall be excluded from this definition. The substances and
organisms of numbers 3 and 5, as far as they serve the purpose of prevention,
protection and proof shall also be excluded1.
I.
Nuclear Weapons
1. Any weapon which contains, or is
designed to contain or utilise, nuclear fuel or
radioactive isotopes and which is capable of mass destruction, mass injury or
mass poisoning.
2. Any part, device, assembly or material
especially designed for, or primarily useful in, any weapon as set forth under
paragraph (1), where no licences subject to the
Atomic Energy Act have been granted.
Definition:
Nuclear fuel includes plutonium, uranium
233, uranium 235 (including uranium 235 contained in uranium enriched to over
2.1 per cent by weight of uranium 235) and any other material capable of
releasing substantial quantities of atomic energy through nuclear fission or
fusion or other nuclear reaction of the material. The foregoing material shall
be considered to be nuclear fuel regardless of the chemical or
physical form in which they exist.
II.
Biological Weapons
3.
Biological warfare agents
a) harmful insects and
their toxic products
b) biological agents
(micro-organisms, viruses, fungi and toxins); in particular:
3.1 human and animal pathogens as well as toxins
a) viruses
as follows:
1. Chikunguya virus
2. Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic
fever virus,
3. Dengue fever virus,
4. Eastern equine encephalitis virus,
5. Ebola virus,
6. Hantaan virus,
7. Junin virus
8. Lassa fever virus,
9. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
virus,
10. Machupo virus,
11. Marburg virus,
12. Monkey pox virus,
13. Rift Valley fever virus,
14. Tick-borne encephalitis virus (Russian
Spring-Summer encephalitis virus)
15. Variola virus,
16. Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus,
17. Western equine encephalitis virus,
18. White pox virus,
19. Yellow fever virus,
20. Japanese encephalitis virus,
b) Rickettsiae
as follows:
1. Coxiella burnetii,
2. Bartonella quintana (Rochalimaea quintana, Rickettsia quintana),
3. Rickettsia prowazekii,
4. Rickettsia rickettsii;
c) Bacteria as follows:
1. Bacillus anthracis,
2. Brucella abortus,
3. Burcella melitensis,
4. Brucella suis,
5. Chlamydia psittaci,
6. Clostridium botulinum,
7. Francisella tularensis,
8. Burkholderia mallei (Pseudomonas pseudomallei),
9. Burkholderia pseudomallei (Pseudomonas pseudomallei)
10. Salmonella typhi,
11. Shigella dysenteriae,
12. Vibrio cholerae,
13. Yersinia pestis;
d) Toxins as follows:
1. Clostridium botulinum
toxins
2. Clostridium perfingens
toxins,
3. Conotoxin,
4. Ricin
5. Saxitoxin
6. Shiga toxin
7. Staphylococcus aureus
toxins
8. Tetrodotoxin
9. Verotoxin
10. Microcystin (Cyanoginoson);
3.2 Animal pathogens as
follows:
a) Viruses as follows:
1. African swine fever
virus,
2. Avian influenza viruses
as follows:
a) uncharacterised or
b) viruses
with high pathogenicity as defined in Council
Directive 92/40/EEC of 19 June 1992 introducing Community measures for the
control of avian influenza (OJ EC, No. L 167, p. 1) as follows:
aa) type A viruses with an IVPI (intravenous pathogenicity
index) in six week old chickens of greater than 1.2, or
bb) type A viruses of subtype H5 or H7 for which the
nucleotide sequencing has demonstrated multiple basic amino acids at the
cleavage site of haemagglutinine,
3. Bluetongue virus
4. Foot and mouth disease
virus,
5. Goat pox virus,
6. Herpes virus (Aujeszky’s disease)
7. Hog cholera virus (swine
fever virus),
8. Lyssa
virus,
9. Newcastle disease virus
10. Peste
des petits ruminants virus
11. Porcine enterovirus type 9 (swine vesicular disease virus)
12. Rinderpest
virus,
13. Sheep pox virus,
14. Teschen
disease virus,
15. Vesicular stomatitis virus;
b) Bacteria as follows:
Mycoplasma mycoides;
3.3. plant
pathogens
a) Bacteria as follows:
1. Xanothomonas
albilineans,
2. Xanothomonas
campestris pv.
citri, including stems
arising therefrom like Xanothomonas
campestris pv. citri types A, B, C, D, E or
differently classified
ones, like Xanothomonas citri, Xanothomonas campstris pv, arantifolia or Xanothonomas pv. campestris pv.
citromelo;
b) Fungi as follows:
1. Colletotrichum
coffeanum var. virulans (Colletotrichum kahawae),
2. Cochliobolus
miyabeanus (Helminthosoporium
oryzae),
3. Micricyclus
ulei (syn. Dothidella ulei),
4. Puccina
graminis (sy. Puccina graminis f. sp. tritici),
5. Puccina
striiformis (syn. Puccina glumarum),
6. Magnapporthe
grisea (Pyricluaria grisea/Pyricularia oryzae);
3.4 genetically modified
micro-organisms as follows:
a) genetically modified
micro-organisms or genetic elements that contain nucleic acid sequences
associated with the pathogenicity of any of the
micro-organisms listed in sub-item 3.1 letters a, b, or c or sub-items 3.2 or
3.3,
b) genetically
modified micro-organisms or genetic elements that contain nucleic acid
sequences coding for any of the toxins referred to in sub-item 3.1 letter d.
4. Facilities or devices specially designed to use the
biological agents specified in item 3 for military purposes, as well as
components and assemblies specially designed for use in such a weapon.
III. Chemical weapons
5. A Toxic chemicals
(Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number: CAS)
a) O-Alkyl (≤ C10 incl. cycloalkyl)
alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr oder i-Pr)-phosphonofluoridates, e. g.
Sarin:
O-Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate (107-44-8)
Soman: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate
(96-64-0)
b) O-Alkyl (≤ C10
incl. cycloalkyl)-N,N-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr oder i-Pr)-phosphoramidocyanidates, e.
g.
Tabun: O-Ethyl
N,N-dimethyl phosphoramido cyanidate (77-81-6)
c) O-Alkyl (H oder ≤
C10 incl. cycloalkyl)-S-2-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr oder i-Pr)-aminoethyl
alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr oder i-Pr)-phosphonothiolates and corresponding alkylated
or protonated salts,
e.g. VX:
O-Ethyl-S-2-diisopropyl-minoethyl methyl phosphonothiolate
(50782-69-9)
d) Sulfur mustards:
2-Chloroethylchloromethylsulfide (2625-76-5)
Mustard gas: Bis(2-chloroethyl)-sulfide . (505-60-2)
Bis(2-chlorethylthio)-methane
(63869-13-6)
Sesquimustard: 1,2-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)ethane (3563-36-8)
1,3-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)-n-propane
(63905-10-2)
1,4-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)-n-butane.
(142868-93-7)
1,5-Bis(2-chloroethylthio)-n-pentane
(142868-94-8)
Bis(2-chloroethylthiomethyl)ether
(63918-90-1)
O-Mustard: Bis(2-chloroethylthioethyl)ether (63918-89-8)
e) Lewisites: Lewisite 1: 2-Chlorovinyldichloroarsine
(541-25-3)
Lewisite 2: Bis(2-chlorovinyl)-chloroarsine
(40334-69-8)
Lewisite 3: Tris(2-chlorovinyl)-arsine (40334-70-1)
f) Nitrogen mustards: HN1: Bis(2-chlorothyl)-ethylamine (538-07-8)
HN2: Bis(2-chloroethyl)-methylamine (51-75-2)
HN3: Tris(2-chloroethyl)-amine (555-77-1)
g) BZ:
3-Chinuclidinylbenzilate (6581-06-2)
B. Precursors
a) Alkyl (ME, ET, n-Pr or i-Pr)-phosphonyl-difluorides, e.
g.
DF: Methylphosphonyl difluoride
(676-99-3)
b) O-Alkyl(H oder ≤ C10 incl. cycloalkyl)-O-2-dialkyl(Me,
Et, n-Pr oder i-Pr)-aminoethyl alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr oder
i-Pr) phosphonites and
corresponding alkylated and protonated
salts, e. g.
QL: O-Ethyl-O-2-diisopropylaminoethylmethyl-phosphonite (57856-11-8)
c) Chlorosarin
O-Isopropyl methyl phosphonochloridate (1445-76-7)
d) Chlorosoman
O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonochloridate
(7040-57-5)
6. Facilities or devices specially designed to use the
chemical agents specified in item 5 for military purposes, as well as
components or assemblies specially designed for use in such weapons.
Part
B
Other War Weapons
I. Projectiles
7. Guided projectiles
8. Unguided projectiles
(missiles)
9. Other projectiles
10. Firing devices
(launchers and launching equipment) for the weapons listed in items 7 to
9, including portable firing
devices for guided projectiles to combat tanks and aircraft
11. Firing
devices for weapons listed in item 8, including portable firing devices as well
as rocket launchers
12. Aero-engines for the
propulsion of the weapons specified in items 7 to 9
II. Combat Aircraft and
Helicopters
13. Combat aircraft having
at least one of the following features:
1. integrated
weapon system equipped particularly with target acquisition, firing control and
relevant interfaces for avionics,
2. integrated
electronic armaments
3. integrated electronic
combat system
14. Combat helicopters
having at least on of the following features:
1. integrated
weapon system equipped particularly with target acquisition, firing control and
relevant interfaces for avionics,
2. integrated electronic
armaments,
3. integrated electronic
combat system
15. Cells for the weapons
listed in items 13 and 14
16. Jet, turboprop and
rocket engines for the weapons under item 13
III. Vessels of War and
Special Naval Equipment
17. Vessels of war,
including those for military training
18. Submarines
19. Small vessels with a
speed of more than 30 knots, equipped with offensive weapons
20. Mine sweeping boats,
mine hunting boats, mine layers, mine breakers as well as other mine combat
boats
21. Landing crafts, landing
vessels
22. Tenders, ammunition
transporters
23. Hulls for the weapons
listed under items 17 to 22
IV. Combat Vehicles
24. Combat tanks
25. Other armoured combat vehicles, including combat-supporting armoured vehicles
26. Any type of special
vehicles, exclusively designed for the use of weapons listied
under items 1 to 6
27. Carriages for the
weapons listed under items 24 and 25
28. Turrets for combat tanks
V. Barrel Weapons
29. a) Machine guns, except those with
water cooling
b) Machine pistols, except those introduced as a model in a military
armed force before 1 September 1939*
c) Fully automatic rifles, except those introduced as a model in a
military armed force before 2 September 1945
d) Semiautomatic rifles except those introduced as a model in a military
armed force before 2 September 1945, and rifles for hunting and sporting
purposes **.
30. Machine guns, rifles,
pistols for combat grenades
31. Cannons, howitzers, any
kind of mortars
32. Automatic cannons
33. Armoured
self-propelled guns for the weapons listeed under
items 31 and 32
34. Barrels for the weapons
listed o under items 29, 31 and 32
35. Breech blocks for
weapons listed under items 29, 31 and 32
36. Revolving breeches for
automatic cannons
VI. Light Anti-Tank Weapons,
Military Flame Throwers, Mine-Laying and Mine-Throwing Systems
37. Recoilless, unguided,
portable anti-tank weapons
38. Flame throwers
39. Mine laying and
mine-throwing systems for land mines
VII. Torpedoes, Mines,
Bombs. Independent Ammunition
40. Torpedoes
41. Torpedoes without
warheads (explosives)
42. Torpedo bodies
(torpedoes without warhead – explosive – and without target detection device)
43. Mines of all types
44. Bombs of all types,
including water bombs
45. Hand flame cartridges
46. Hand grenades
47. Infantry explosive
devices, adhesive and hollow charges as well as mine-sweeping devices
48. Explosive charges for
the weapons of item 43
VIII. Other Ammunition
49. Ammunition for the
weapons listed under items 31 and 32
50. Ammunition for the
weapons listed under item 29a, c and d, except cartridge ammunition having a
soft core projectile with full casing, provided that the projectile does not
contain any accessories, particularly a flare, incendiary or explosive charge,
and where cartridge ammunition of the same calibre is
used for hunting and sporting purposes
51. Ammunition for weapons
of item 30
52. Ammunition for the
weapons listed under items 37 and 39
53. Rifle grenades
54. Projectiles for the
weapons listed under items 49 and 52.
55. Propelling charges for
the weapons listed under items 49 and 52.
IX. Other Essential
Components
56. War heads for the
weapons listed under items 7 to 9 and 40
57. Ignition charges for the
weapons listed under items 7 to 9, 40, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 51 to 53 and 59,
except propellant charge ignitors
58. Target detection heads
for the weapons listed under items 7, 9, 40, 44, 49, 59 and 60
59. Submunition
for the weapons listed under items 7 to 9, 44, 49 and 61
60. Submunition
without ignition for the weapons listed under items 7 to 9, 44, 49 and 61
X. Dispensers
61. Dispensers for the
systematic distribution of submunition
XI. Laser weapons
62. Laser weapons specially
designed for causing permanent loss of eyesight
Footnote
1 In case of
a civil use of biological agents specified under item 3 letter b, the export
restrictions shall be observed based on
- Council Regulation
(EC) No. 1334/2000 of 22 June 2000 setting up a Community regime for the
control of dual-use items and technologies (OJ EC No. L, 159, p. 1) and
- the provisions of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation
, particularly sections 5 and 7.
Additional
restrictions, declaration requirements and inspection provisions apply to Ricin and Saxitoxin (item 3.1,
letter d and items 4 and 5) pursuant to the Act Implementing the Chemical
Weapons Convention of 2 August 1994, FG I, p. 1954) and the Regulation Implementing
the Chemical Weapons Convention of 20 November 1996 (FG I, p. 1794), as amended
by the first regulation amending the regulation implementing the Chemical
Weapons Convention of 14 April 2000 (FG I, p. 530)
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