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From 1 March 2021, the German competent authority for granting license related to trade of dual-use goods, BAFA, will start issuing authorisations, zero notices, information as well as renewals and amendments to decisions in the field of foreign trade law exclusively in electronic form

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On 29 January 2021, Italy adopted a measure revoking and suspending the issuance of licences to export weapons to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. The measure took immediately effect and concerns 6 authorizations for the sale of missiles and aircraft bombs.

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On 29 January 2021, the COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/111 of 29 January 2021 making the exportation of certain products subject to the production of an export authorization was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ L 031I Of 30/01/2021).
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On 15 January 2021, the Council adopted the Decision (CFSP) 2021/38 establishing a common approach on the elements of end-user certificates in the context of the export of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and their ammunition.
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On 15 January 2021, on the Official Journal of the EU it was published the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/27 of 7 January 2021 on the request for registration of the European citizens’ initiative entitled ‘Civil society initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance practices ‘.

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In view of countering academic proliferation of research involving dual-use items, the European Commission Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with Liege University (European Studies Unit), has developed a data-mining tool which can provide support to universities and research centres (but not only) for awareness raising and mapping of dual-use related scientific collaborations: TIM Dual-Use.