"Munitions List"
Category 2-11

Canada has exported products in Category 2-11 to twelve countries in the Middle East & North Africa
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Summary
2-11: Electronic equipment
Electronic equipment, systems and components, designed for military use, such as communications, electronic countermeasures, radar systems, guidance and navigation equipment and Global Navigation Satellite Systems jamming equipment. Includes electronic systems for surveillance of the electro-magnetic spectrum for military intelligence or security purposes and to counteract such monitoring.

The above summary -- by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) for its web report "Canadian Military Exports to the Middle East and North Africa" -- was derived from a detailed description of this category of munitions published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) in a document called A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls (June 2006).  This DFAIT document describes seven different groups of products on the "Export Control List" whose export is "controlled" by the Government of Canada.  One of these seven groups, known as "Group 2" or the "Munitions List," is comprised of 22 categories of military products.  These are the categories of products whose export is documented in a series of DFAIT documents published since 1990, called Export of Military Goods from Canada.

The relevant section from A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls detailing this category on the "Munitions List" is provided below:

2-11

Electronic equipment, not controlled elsewhere on the Munitions List, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

a. Electronic equipment specially designed for military use.

Note:

2-11.a. includes:

1. Electronic countermeasure and electronic counter-countermeasure equipment (i.e., equipment designed to introduce extraneous or erroneous signals into radar or radio communication receivers or otherwise hinder the reception, operation or effectiveness of adversary electronic receivers including their countermeasure equipment), including jamming and counter-jamming equipment;

2. Frequency agile tubes;

3. Electronic systems or equipment designed either for surveillance and monitoring of the electro-magnetic spectrum for military intelligence or security purposes or for counteracting such surveillance and monitoring;

4. Underwater countermeasures, including acoustic and magnetic jamming and decoy, equipment designed to introduce extraneous or erroneous signals into sonar receivers;

5. Data processing security equipment, data security equipment and transmission and signalling line security equipment, using ciphering processes;

6. Identification, authentification and keyloader equipment and key management, manufacturing and distribution equipment;

7. Guidance and navigation equipment.

b. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) jamming equipment.

Compiled by COAT

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