Sunday, 1 November 2026
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5.D.1."Software" as follows:

List
Wassenaar Arrangement – List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies – WA-LIST (25) 1
Corresponding EU entry
5D001
a. "Software" specially designed or modified for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment, functions or features, specified in 5.A.1.;
b. Not used since 2014
c. Specific "software" specially designed or modified to provide characteristics, functions or features of equipment, specified in 5.A.1. or 5.B.1.;
d. "Software" specially designed or modified for the "development" of any of the following telecommunication transmission or switching equipment:
1. Not used since 2009
2. Equipment employing a "laser" and having any of the following:
a. A transmission wavelength exceeding 1,750 nm; or
b. Employing analogue techniques and having a bandwidth exceeding 2.5 GHz; or
Note 5.D.1.d.2.b. does not apply to "software" specially designed or modified for the "development" of commercial TV systems.
3. Not used since 2009
4. Radio equipment employing Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation (QAM) techniques above level 1,024;
e. "Software", other than that specified in 5.D.1.a. or 5.D.1.c., specially designed or modified for monitoring or analysis for law enforcement purposes, providing all of the following:
1. Execution of searches on the basis of "hard selectors" of either the content of communication or metadata acquired from a communications service provider using a 'handover interface'; and
Technical Notes
1. For the purposes of 5.D.1.e., a 'handover interface' is a physical and logical interface, designed for use by an authorised law enforcement authority, across which targeted interception measures are requested from a communications service provider and the results of interception are delivered from a communications service provider to the requesting authority. The 'handover interface' is implemented within systems or equipment (e.g., mediation devices) that receive and validate the interception request, and deliver to the requesting authority only the results of interception that fulfil the validated request.
2. 'Handover interfaces' may be specified in international standards (including but not limited to ETSI TS 101 331, ETSI TS 101 671, 3GPP TS 33.108) or national equivalents.
e. 2. Mapping of the relational network or tracking the movement or location of targeted individuals based on the results of searches on content of communication or metadata or searches as described in 5.D.1.e.1.
Note 5.D.1.e. does not apply to "software" specially designed or modified for any of the following:
a. Billing purposes;
b. Network Quality of Service (QoS);
c. Quality of Experience (QoE);
d. Mediation devices; or
e. Mobile payment or banking use.
5. E. Part 1. TECHNOLOGY