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Eleventh Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium

14 September 2022 - 15 September 2022

The 11th Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (EUNPD) Consortium was held on 14 and 15 September 2022.

Organised by the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), the meeting focused on the topicality of multilateral export control regimes.

A long-standing and important part of the global non-proliferation architecture, multilateral export control regimes are informal groups of states that agree to coordinate their export control policies and practices for military and/or dual-use goods and technologies in order to prevent the associated proliferation risks. In addition to the four main existing regimes (the Australia Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies), specific European mechanisms have been added over time. Thus, a EU regulation governs the export control regime of dual-use items. Additional restrictive measures (such as the sanctions imposed on Russia after the launch of its armed aggression against Ukraine, for example) have been or may be added to these mechanisms, whether voluntary or binding. All these measures play a direct role in the fight against proliferation, but also in disseminating norms and involving industrial and scientific stakeholders in the global security architecture.

This eleventh Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium was devoted to a critical review of existing regimes. In particular, addressed the question of their effectiveness, the issue of inter-regime coordination, the question of control of emerging technologies, and the particular case of European policy, including dual-use and the war in Ukraine.