"Munitions List"
Category 2-21

Canada has exported products in Category 2-21 to six countries in the Middle East & North Africa
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Summary
2-21: Software
Software specially designed or modified for the development, production or use of equipment or materials on the Munitions List. Includes software for modelling and simulating military weapon systems or military operation scenarios; software for monitoring, maintaining or updating software embedded in military weapon systems; and software for Command, Communications, Control, Computer and Intelligence applications.

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:

2-21

“Software”, as follows:

a. “Software” specially designed or modified for the “development”, “production” or “use” of equipment or materials controlled by the Munitions List;

b. Specific “software”, as follows:

1. “Software” specially designed for:

a. Modelling, simulation or evaluation of military weapon systems;

b. “Development”, monitoring, maintenance or up-dating of “software” embedded in military weapon systems;

c. Modelling or simulating military operation scenarios, not controlled by 2-14.;

d. Command, Communications, Control and Intelligence (C3I) or Command, Communications, Control, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) applications;

2. “Software” for determining the effects of conventional, nuclear, chemical or biological warfare weapons.

3. “Software”, not controlled by 2-21.a., 2-21.b.1. or 2-21.b.2., specially designed or modified to enable equipment not controlled by the Munitions List to perform the military functions of equipment controlled by 2-5., 2-7.g., 2-9.c., 2-9.e., 2-10.e., 2-11., 2-14., 2-15., 2-17.i. or 2-18.

Compiled by COAT

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Oppose the
Arms
Trade

Canadian Military Exports
to the Middle East
and North Africa