Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BERLIN707
2007-04-04 13:58:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
(C) MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 000707
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MTR AND EUR/AGS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/04/2032
TAGS: MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA GM
SUBJECT: (C) MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
GERMANY FORWARDS EU PROPOSAL FOR IRAN WATCH LIST
Classified By: Economic Counselor Douglas B. Neumann, for reasons 1.4 (
b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 000707
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MTR AND EUR/AGS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/04/2032
TAGS: MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA GM
SUBJECT: (C) MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
GERMANY FORWARDS EU PROPOSAL FOR IRAN WATCH LIST
Classified By: Economic Counselor Douglas B. Neumann, for reasons 1.4 (
b) and (d).
1. (U) This is an action request -- please see paragraph 5.
2. (C) German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Ina
Schuett passed the following English-language EU proposal to
Global Affairs officer April 2. Schuett said the proposal
comes from those MTCR partners which are also EU member
states. According to her, the EU Council adopted a Common
Position to scrutinize the exports of dual-use items to Iran
in advance of the adoption of UNSCR 1737 on December 23,
2006. The Council decided to create a watch list of dual-use
items useful to Iran's nuclear or ballistic missile programs
that are otherwise unlisted under any EU export controls.
Under the Common Position, EU exporters must apply with their
national export control authorities before shipping any goods
on the EU watch list to Iran. Customs authorities in EU
members states are also instructed to watch for unauthorized
shipments of these goods to Iran. In addition to this
internal watch list, the EU also complied with UNSCR 1737 by
adopting a Common Position in February 2007 to prohibit the
export to Iran of all items listed within the MTCR Annex and
the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Guidelines. Schuett noted
that EU member states, acting under these two Common
Positions, are following strict and comprehensive export
controls concerning Iran.
3. (C) Schuett said that the EU would now like to propose
that the MTCR adopt a watch list of dual-use items for Iran,
based on those ballistic missile-relevant items on the EU
watch list. She added that EU experts prepared the watch
list after months of careful analysis and would like input
from other MTCR partners' experts. To that end, Germany, as
the EU President, submitted the proposal for the watch list
to MTCR partners April 2 via the electronic Point of Contact
(ePOC). Germany hopes that the MTCR partners will reach
consensus on the watch list as quickly as possible. By
submitting it in advance of the April 12-13 Reinforced Point
of Contact (RPOC) meeting in Paris, Germany hopes that the
MTCR partners will be ready to discuss it at the RPOC.
Although the partners may suggest slight alterations in
wording or technical parameters, Germany expects that they
will agree to adopt the watch list. If no consensus is
reached, then Germany will press for a silent procedure,
enabling those in favor to adopt the watch list on their own
and those opposed to review it further.
4. (C/REL MTCR) Begin text of English-language EU proposal:
Proposal of the EU Member States Participating in the MTCR on
MTCR Watch List Iran
Introduction
At the 2006 Copenhagen Plenary MTCR Partners decided to
exercise vigilance against the export to Iran of any items,
materials, goods and technology that could contribute to
Iran's ballistic missile programs.
In Op. 3 of UNSCR 1737 the Security Council decided among
others that all states shall take the necessary measures to
prevent transfers to Iran of all goods or technology that
could contribute to the development of nuclear weapon
delivery systems, namely those listed in category I and II of
the MTCR Annex (with the exception of items covered by Item
19.A.3 of Category II). The EU decided in its Common
Position of February 27th 2007 that the export of all
MTCR-listed goods to Iran shall be prohibited.
Furthermore, the UN Security Council decided in Op. 4 b) of
UNSCR 1737 that all states shall take the necessary measures
to prevent transfers to Iran of non-listed goods if the state
determines that they would contribute to the development of
nuclear weapons delivery systems. To strengthen the EU's
export controls concerning sensitive non-listed goods, the EU
has drafted a watch list of materials and goods that might be
of particular interest and utility for Iran's ballistic
missile program. The items mentioned in the attached list
are believed to deserve special attention of the competent
export control authorities with regard to exports to Iran.
However, the list of items is for internal use of control
authorities only and not for submission to exporters.
The items mentioned in the attached list are believed by EU
experts to deserve special attention
- either because they have been regularly observed in
procurement attempts by Iranian end-users of concern,
- or because a thorough technical review of the Iranian
ballistic programme has led EU experts to the conclusion that
they were likely bottlenecks for Iran.
In both cases, it means that Iran is not believed to be able
to manufacture those items indigenously. These items
therefore represent a vulnerability that an export control
regime such as the MTCR should take advantage of in the
furtherance of its nonproliferation objectives.
The EU believes that the list of items attached could help
implementing Op. 4 b) of UNSCR. The EU therefore proposes
that MTCR Partners should apply utmost vigilance in their
national export controls with regard to the goods listed in
the Annex with destination Iran.
Annex: Ballistic missile related non-listed goods
Equipment or material
--------------
Fuselage and structural materials
--------------
Equipments and materials designed or modified for the
manufacturing of airframes for manned or unmanned aircraft
and missile structures
1. Aluminium and alloys
Other than produced by powder technology and following
technical note to 1C, sheets to watch particularly, and
particularly with tensile strength greater than 415 MPa.
2. Aluminium alloys and sheets
Alloys with good corrosion resistance are of particular
concern (for example nitric acid)
3. Special steels
Special steels not classified in maraging steels.
Tensile strength greater than 1200 MPa
4. Special corrosion-resistant steels
Limited to steels resistant to Inhibited Red Fuming
Nitric Acid or usable for nitric acid tank, foreign
availability assumed
5. Tungsten and alloys of this metal in solid form
(i.e. blocks, cylinders, tubes or ingots) with a purity
of 97 percent or higher in any of the following form factors:
a) cylinders having a diameter of 120 mm or greater and a
length of 50 mm or greater;
b) tubes having an inner diameter of 65 mm or greater and a
wall thickness of 25 mm or greater and a length of 50 mm or
greater; or
c) blocks having a size of 120 mm x 120 mm x 50 mm or greater
6. Thermal treatment furnaces
Temperature greater than 850 degrees Celsius and one
dimension greater than 1 m
7. Plasma cutting equipment
8. Measurement equipment usable for wind tunnel (balance,
thermal stream measurement, . . .)
9. High pressure air industrial compressor
Pressure greater than 100 bars
10. Carbon-fiber materials
11. Silica (and compounds) fiber
12. Fibrous and filamentary materials or prepeg
13. Hydroforming machines
14. Explosive bolts, flexible linear shaped charges, ball
locks, compression springs, acceleration rockets usable for
staging mechanisms
15. Pure aluminium, Serie 1000
Usable for nitric acid tank
16. All Climatic test chamber, temperature shock and
vibration test chamber
All test chambers without technical thresholds
--------------
Propulsion
--------------
17. Isocyanates (TDI, MDI, IPDI) and production equipment
18. Ammonium nitrate
19. Iodine
Usable for propulsion
20. Non destructive test chambers
The X-rays radiography is used to control rocket motors
propellant. One dimension of the equipment to be controlled
greater than 1 meter
--------------
Guidance and navigation
--------------
21. Inertial equipment for civil aircraft, satellite,
geophysical survey, marine vessels or land vehicle
22. Inertial equipment for any application
Including equipment certified for civil aircraft, except
those specially designed for automotive industry.
End text of English-language EU proposal.
5. (C) Germany would like to receive input from U.S. export
control experts on this proposed watch list, preferably in
advance of the April 12-13 RPOC. Post requests compliance
with this request.
TIMKEN JR
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MTR AND EUR/AGS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/04/2032
TAGS: MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA GM
SUBJECT: (C) MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
GERMANY FORWARDS EU PROPOSAL FOR IRAN WATCH LIST
Classified By: Economic Counselor Douglas B. Neumann, for reasons 1.4 (
b) and (d).
1. (U) This is an action request -- please see paragraph 5.
2. (C) German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Ina
Schuett passed the following English-language EU proposal to
Global Affairs officer April 2. Schuett said the proposal
comes from those MTCR partners which are also EU member
states. According to her, the EU Council adopted a Common
Position to scrutinize the exports of dual-use items to Iran
in advance of the adoption of UNSCR 1737 on December 23,
2006. The Council decided to create a watch list of dual-use
items useful to Iran's nuclear or ballistic missile programs
that are otherwise unlisted under any EU export controls.
Under the Common Position, EU exporters must apply with their
national export control authorities before shipping any goods
on the EU watch list to Iran. Customs authorities in EU
members states are also instructed to watch for unauthorized
shipments of these goods to Iran. In addition to this
internal watch list, the EU also complied with UNSCR 1737 by
adopting a Common Position in February 2007 to prohibit the
export to Iran of all items listed within the MTCR Annex and
the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Guidelines. Schuett noted
that EU member states, acting under these two Common
Positions, are following strict and comprehensive export
controls concerning Iran.
3. (C) Schuett said that the EU would now like to propose
that the MTCR adopt a watch list of dual-use items for Iran,
based on those ballistic missile-relevant items on the EU
watch list. She added that EU experts prepared the watch
list after months of careful analysis and would like input
from other MTCR partners' experts. To that end, Germany, as
the EU President, submitted the proposal for the watch list
to MTCR partners April 2 via the electronic Point of Contact
(ePOC). Germany hopes that the MTCR partners will reach
consensus on the watch list as quickly as possible. By
submitting it in advance of the April 12-13 Reinforced Point
of Contact (RPOC) meeting in Paris, Germany hopes that the
MTCR partners will be ready to discuss it at the RPOC.
Although the partners may suggest slight alterations in
wording or technical parameters, Germany expects that they
will agree to adopt the watch list. If no consensus is
reached, then Germany will press for a silent procedure,
enabling those in favor to adopt the watch list on their own
and those opposed to review it further.
4. (C/REL MTCR) Begin text of English-language EU proposal:
Proposal of the EU Member States Participating in the MTCR on
MTCR Watch List Iran
Introduction
At the 2006 Copenhagen Plenary MTCR Partners decided to
exercise vigilance against the export to Iran of any items,
materials, goods and technology that could contribute to
Iran's ballistic missile programs.
In Op. 3 of UNSCR 1737 the Security Council decided among
others that all states shall take the necessary measures to
prevent transfers to Iran of all goods or technology that
could contribute to the development of nuclear weapon
delivery systems, namely those listed in category I and II of
the MTCR Annex (with the exception of items covered by Item
19.A.3 of Category II). The EU decided in its Common
Position of February 27th 2007 that the export of all
MTCR-listed goods to Iran shall be prohibited.
Furthermore, the UN Security Council decided in Op. 4 b) of
UNSCR 1737 that all states shall take the necessary measures
to prevent transfers to Iran of non-listed goods if the state
determines that they would contribute to the development of
nuclear weapons delivery systems. To strengthen the EU's
export controls concerning sensitive non-listed goods, the EU
has drafted a watch list of materials and goods that might be
of particular interest and utility for Iran's ballistic
missile program. The items mentioned in the attached list
are believed to deserve special attention of the competent
export control authorities with regard to exports to Iran.
However, the list of items is for internal use of control
authorities only and not for submission to exporters.
The items mentioned in the attached list are believed by EU
experts to deserve special attention
- either because they have been regularly observed in
procurement attempts by Iranian end-users of concern,
- or because a thorough technical review of the Iranian
ballistic programme has led EU experts to the conclusion that
they were likely bottlenecks for Iran.
In both cases, it means that Iran is not believed to be able
to manufacture those items indigenously. These items
therefore represent a vulnerability that an export control
regime such as the MTCR should take advantage of in the
furtherance of its nonproliferation objectives.
The EU believes that the list of items attached could help
implementing Op. 4 b) of UNSCR. The EU therefore proposes
that MTCR Partners should apply utmost vigilance in their
national export controls with regard to the goods listed in
the Annex with destination Iran.
Annex: Ballistic missile related non-listed goods
Equipment or material
--------------
Fuselage and structural materials
--------------
Equipments and materials designed or modified for the
manufacturing of airframes for manned or unmanned aircraft
and missile structures
1. Aluminium and alloys
Other than produced by powder technology and following
technical note to 1C, sheets to watch particularly, and
particularly with tensile strength greater than 415 MPa.
2. Aluminium alloys and sheets
Alloys with good corrosion resistance are of particular
concern (for example nitric acid)
3. Special steels
Special steels not classified in maraging steels.
Tensile strength greater than 1200 MPa
4. Special corrosion-resistant steels
Limited to steels resistant to Inhibited Red Fuming
Nitric Acid or usable for nitric acid tank, foreign
availability assumed
5. Tungsten and alloys of this metal in solid form
(i.e. blocks, cylinders, tubes or ingots) with a purity
of 97 percent or higher in any of the following form factors:
a) cylinders having a diameter of 120 mm or greater and a
length of 50 mm or greater;
b) tubes having an inner diameter of 65 mm or greater and a
wall thickness of 25 mm or greater and a length of 50 mm or
greater; or
c) blocks having a size of 120 mm x 120 mm x 50 mm or greater
6. Thermal treatment furnaces
Temperature greater than 850 degrees Celsius and one
dimension greater than 1 m
7. Plasma cutting equipment
8. Measurement equipment usable for wind tunnel (balance,
thermal stream measurement, . . .)
9. High pressure air industrial compressor
Pressure greater than 100 bars
10. Carbon-fiber materials
11. Silica (and compounds) fiber
12. Fibrous and filamentary materials or prepeg
13. Hydroforming machines
14. Explosive bolts, flexible linear shaped charges, ball
locks, compression springs, acceleration rockets usable for
staging mechanisms
15. Pure aluminium, Serie 1000
Usable for nitric acid tank
16. All Climatic test chamber, temperature shock and
vibration test chamber
All test chambers without technical thresholds
--------------
Propulsion
--------------
17. Isocyanates (TDI, MDI, IPDI) and production equipment
18. Ammonium nitrate
19. Iodine
Usable for propulsion
20. Non destructive test chambers
The X-rays radiography is used to control rocket motors
propellant. One dimension of the equipment to be controlled
greater than 1 meter
--------------
Guidance and navigation
--------------
21. Inertial equipment for civil aircraft, satellite,
geophysical survey, marine vessels or land vehicle
22. Inertial equipment for any application
Including equipment certified for civil aircraft, except
those specially designed for automotive industry.
End text of English-language EU proposal.
5. (C) Germany would like to receive input from U.S. export
control experts on this proposed watch list, preferably in
advance of the April 12-13 RPOC. Post requests compliance
with this request.
TIMKEN JR