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ML15Imaging or countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:

Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the Community (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

Recorders and image processing equipment; Cameras, photographic equipment and film processing equipment; Image intensifier equipment; Infrared or thermal imaging equipment; Imaging radar sensor equipment; Countermeasure or counter-countermeasure equipment for the equipment controlled by sub-items ML15.a. to ML15.e. NoteML15.f. includes equipment designed to degrade the operation or effectiveness of military imaging systems or to minimize such degrading effects. Note 1The term ‘specially designed components’ includes the following when specially designed for military use: Infrared image converter tubes; Image intensifier tubes (other than first generation); Microchannel plates; Low-light-level television camera tubes; Detector arrays (including electronic interconnection or readout systems); Pyroelectric television camera tubes; Cooling systems for imaging systems; Electrically triggered shutters of the photochromic or electro-optical type having a shutter speed of less than 100 μs, except in the case of shutters which are an essential part of a high-speed camera; Fibre optic image inverters; Compound semiconductor photocathodes Note 2ML15 does not control ‘first generation image intensifier tubes’ or equipment specially designed to incorporate ‘first generation image intensifier tubes’. NB:For the status of weapons sights incorporating ‘first generation image intensifier tubes’ see entries ML1., ML2. and ML5.a. NB:See also entries 6A002.a.2. and 6A002.b. on the EU Dual-Use List.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.