Following the eleventh gathering of the Chaudfontaine Group, in the wake of the coming into effect of the new European Dual-Use Regulation, the group of experts took the opportunity to analyse and dissect the complex EU dual-use export control regime in order to distinguish/identify the new and relevant elements which could be useful to third countries and conversely, those which are not as their raison d’être which are linked to the internal functioning of the EU.