The Export Control (Amendment) Regulations 2025

14 Amendments to Category 6 - Sensors and Lasers

(1) The section headed Category 6 - Sensors and Lasers is amended as follows. (2) In the section headed 6A Systems, Equipment and Components— (a) in entry 6A001.a.1.a.— (i) before entry 6A001.a.1.a.1., insert— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A001.a.1.a., ‘enhancement’ includes the ability to compensate by external means. ; (ii) at the end of entry 6A001.a.1.a.1., for the Technical Notes, substitute— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A001.a.1.a.1.c., ’sounding resolution’ is the swath width (degrees) divided by the maximum number of soundings per swath. ; (b) in entry 6A001.a.2.b.2., omit the Technical Note; (c) at the end of entry 6A001.a.2.b.8., for the Technical Note, substitute— Technical Notes: For the purposes of 6A001.a.2.b.: 1. | Hydrophone arrays consist of a number of hydrophone providing multiple acoustic output channels. 2. | ‘Able to be modified’ means having provisions to allow a change of the wiring or interconnections to alter hydrophone group spacing or operating depth limits. These provisions are: spare wiring exceeding 10% of the number of wires, hydrophone group spacing adjustment blocks or internal depth limiting devices that are adjustable or that control more than one hydrophone group. ; (d) in entry 6A002.a.2.b.2.b., for “‘charge multiplication’” substitute ““charge multiplication””; (e) in Note 2 to entry 6A002.a.3., in paragraph c.2., for “in place.” substitute “in place;”; (f) after paragraph d to Note 2 of entry 6A002.a.3, omit the Technical Note; (g) in entry 6A002.b.1., for “Instantaneous-Field-Of-View” substitute “Instantaneous Field of View”; (h) in entry 6A002.c.3., for “Solid state ” substitute “Solid-state”; (i) in the Technical Note to entry 6A002.f., after ““focal plane array”” omit “(“FPA”)”; (j) in entry 6A003.b.1. — (i) for “solid state sensors” substitute “solid-state sensors”; (ii) after “10 nm” omit “,”; (k) in entry 6A003.b.1.a., for “solid state”, in each place it occurs, substitute “solid-state”; (l) in entry 6A003.b.2.a., after “10 nm” omit “,”; (m) in Note 3 to entry 6A003.b.4.— (i) in paragraph b.1. for “Instantaneous-Field-of-View” substitute “Instantaneous Field of View”; (ii) at the end of paragraph b.1., insert— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A003.b.4. Note 3.b.1., ‘Instantaneous Field of View (IFOV) is the lesser figure of the ‘Horizontal IFOV’ or the ‘Vertical IFOV’. ‘Horizontal IFOV’ = horizontal Field of View (FOV)/number of horizontal detector elements ‘Vertical IFOV’ = vertical Field of View (FOV)/number of vertical detector elements. ; (iii) at paragraph b.4.a., for “field-of-view” substitute “Field of View”; (iv) omit the Technical Notes; (n) in Note 4 to entry 6A003.b.4., at paragraph a.1.d., after “equipment;” omit “and”; (o) at the end of Note 4 to entry 6A003.b.4., insert— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A003.b.4., ‘direct view’ refers to an imaging camera operating in the infrared spectrum that presents a visual image to a human observer using a near-to-eye micro display incorporating any light-security mechanism. ; (p) in entry 6A004.a.1., for “Technical Note:” substitute “Technical Notes:”; (q) in entry 6A005— (i) in Note 2, for “‘non-repetitive pulsed’” substitute ““non-repetitive pulsed””; (ii) omit the Technical Note to Note 2; (iii) for Note 6, substitute— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A005.a. and 6A005.b., ‘single transverse mode’ refers to “lasers” with a beam profile having an M²-factor of less than 1,3, while ‘multiple transverse mode’ refers to “lasers” with a beam profile having an M²-factor equal to or greater than 1,3. ; (r) before entry 6A005.a., omit the Technical Note beginning with “For the purposes of 6A005., ‘wall-plug”; (s) in entry 6A005.a.6.b.1., for “‘Wall-plug efficiency’” substitute ““Wall-plug efficiency””; (t) in Note 1 to entry 6A005.a.6.b., for “note” substitute “Note”; (u) in entry 6A005.b.— (i) for ““pulsed lasers”” substitute “‘pulsed lasers’”; (ii) at the end, insert— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A005.b., a ‘pulsed laser’ is a “laser” having a “pulse duration” that is less than or equal to 0,25 seconds. ; (v) in entry 6A005.b.6., for “‘Wall-plug efficiency’”, in each place it occurs, substitute ““Wall-plug efficiency””; (w) at the end of entry 6A005.d.1., insert— Technical Notes: For the purposes of 6A005.d.1.: 1. | Semiconductor “lasers” are commonly called “laser” diodes. 2. | A ‘bar’ (also called a semiconductor “laser” ‘bar’, a “laser” diode ‘bar’ or diode ‘bar’) consists of multiple semiconductor “lasers” in a one-dimensional array. 3. | A ‘stacked array’ consists of multiple ‘bars’ forming a two-dimensional array of semiconductor “lasers”. ; (x) in entry 6A005.d.1.b.1.— (i) for “1 400” substitute “780”; (ii) after “power” omit “,”; (y) for entries 6A005.d.1.b.2 and 6A005.d.1.b.3., substitute— 2. | Wavelength equal to or greater than 780 nm and less than 1 100 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 30 W; 3. | Wavelength equal to or greater than 1 100 nm and less than 1 400 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 25 W; 4. | Wavelength equal to or greater than 1 400 nm and less than 1 900 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 2,5 W; or 5. | Wavelength equal to or greater than 1 900 nm and average or CW output power exceeding 1 W; . (z) in entry 6A005.d.1.e., omit the Technical Notes; (z1) in entry 6A005.d.5.— (i) for ““Chemical lasers”” substitute “‘Chemical lasers’”; (ii) at the end, insert— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A005.d.5., ‘chemical laser’ is a “laser” in which the excited species is produced by the output energy from a chemical reaction. ; (z2) in entry 6A005.d.6., for “‘Non-repetitive pulsed’” substitute ““Non-repetitive pulsed”” and for “Nd: glass” substitute “Nd:glass”; (z3) in entry 6A005.e.3.c.2., for “10 kW/cm².” substitute “10 kW/cm²;”; (z4) in the N.B. to entry 6A005.f., for “Super-High” substitute “Super High”; (z5) in entry 6A008.h.2.— (i) for ““Radar frequency agility”” substitute “‘Radar frequency agility’”; (ii) at the end, insert— Technical Note: For the purposes of 6A008.h., ‘radar frequency agility’ applies to any technique which changes, in a pseudo-random sequence, the carrier frequency of a pulsed radar transmitter between pulses or between groups of pulses by an amount equal to or larger than the pulse bandwidth. ; (z6) in the Technical Notes to entry 6A008— (i) after the heading “Technical Notes:”, on a new line insert “For the purposes of 6A008:”; (ii) in paragraph 1, for “For the purposes of 6A008, ‘marine” substitute “ ‘Marine”; (iii) in paragraph 2, for “For the purposes of 6A008, ‘vessel” substitute “ ‘Vessel”; (z7) in the Note to entry 6A225— (i) for “Interferometers) and PDV” substitute “Interferometers), PDV”; (ii) at the end, insert “and microwave velocity interferometers, including optic-microwave mixing velocimeters”. (3) In the section headed 6C Materials— (a) in entry 6C004.b.4., after “diphosphide);” omit “or”; (b) in the Technical Note to entry 6C005.b., at the end, omit “1.”. (4) In the section headed 6D Software, in entry 6D003.c., after “Note 3.a.” insert “;”.