The-Defence-Trade-Controls-Amendment-Bill-2023-The-key-to-AUKUS

To ensure the proposed rules are genuinely fit for purpose On 30 November 2023, Australian Deputy Prime and to support industry and academia through Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles the change, the Australian Government should introduced to Parliament the Defence Trade consider the policy options outlined below which Controls Amendment Bill 2023.9 The bill has would address key industr. [...] The items, software The second reason for the introduction of the and technologies on the list are agreed upon bill is the need for Australia to demonstrate that between the members of various international it has a system of export controls comparable non-proliferation and export control regimes. [...] The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023: The key to AUKUS? 6 BRIEF Offence 3 has a security clearance from the governments of Canada, New Zealand, the United States or the The third offence relates to the provision of DSGL United Kingdom or if the recipient is of a nation- services related to Part 1 of the DSGL (Military ality listed in the Foreign Country List and the List) to foreign pers. [...] Source: Australian Department of Defence The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023: The key to AUKUS? 7 BRIEF and subcontractors to provide information and The proposed rules also allow for the Australi- complete documentation before the authorisa- an legal system to vet and approve the foreign tion application can be submitted. [...] This was teria in the definition of a defence article in outlined by the Academy of Science and the US law, and the universal application of that 42 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences definition.” and Engineering in their joint submission to the exposure draft of the bill: “Australia on its own is not globally com- petitive in many of the [non-military] areas The proposed rules on the De.