After three years of talks, the Member States' ambassadors to the European Union (Coreper) finally adopted, on Wednesday 5 June, the EU Council's negotiating position on the modernisation of the EU's dual-use items regime. By removing cybersurveillance from the list of goods, they have greatly limited its scope.
In September 2016, the Commission worked on recasting the existing Regulation into a stricter and more modern Community regime. As a result, tighter controls on the export of...