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European Export Control Association for Research Organisations

EECARO

The European Export Control Association for Research Organisations is a network that aims to unite European Union research institutes, universities and their export control compliance officers with a view to address the specific character of export controls in a research context.

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Response to Enhancing research security in Europe

22 Dec 2023

EECARO welcomes the stakeholder consultation in preparation of the Commission proposal for a Council Recommendation on boosting research security in the European Union. It is understood that this Recommendation as soft law is not the endpoint, but a step in the dialogue between policymakers, government administrators and research organisations to seek alignment as much as possible in the ensuing process. EECARO, established to unite research organisations in dealing with challenges related to export controls, recognizes the multifaceted nature of the concept of research security, and is particularly interested in its dimension of undesirable transfer of higher risk technology (for military or Weapons of Mass Destruction use, for loss of technological innovation lead, or for human rights concerns). This dimension is linked to the aspects of technology security and technology leakage in the recent EU policy priority of economic security and in the knowledge security policy under development by (at least) the Netherlands. EECARO therefore focuses its initial feedback, grouped into the 8 points as in the attached file, to the intersection between export controls, research security, economic security and knowledge security.
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