Wassenaar Arrangement

A multilateral export-control regime, established in 1996 as the successor to COCOM, that promotes transparency and restraint in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies. Its 42 participating states maintain two control lists, the Munitions List and the List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, updated by consensus at annual plenaries. It has no treaty status and no veto over members’ export decisions; each state implements the agreed lists through national licensing. It is one of the four regimes feeding the EU dual-use control list.