Exclusive: EU to target export controls on military use goods, outbound investment risks

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The European Commission plans to propose measures this year to address security risks posed by outbound investments as well as reinforcing export controls on goods that have both civilian and military uses, with an eye on rivals such as China.

In a document entitled "European Economic Security Strategy", seen by Reuters ahead of its presentation on Tuesday, the Commission sets out its view on how the European Union can make its economy more resilient and identify emerging risks.

It said these could come from exports and investments that let know-how leak to foreign rivals in a "narrow set of key enabling technologies with military implication", giving quantum computing, artificial intelligence, 6G, biotechnology and robotics as examples. The European Union executive will present its "communication" to EU lawmakers and countries, whose leaders are set to discuss relations with China in Brussels next week.

The document does not name China, but stresses partnering with countries who share EU concerns and uses the phraseThe EU executive will need to tread carefully because granting of export licences and weighing security interests are national competences that EU governments will want to retain.

 

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