The definition and implementation of sensitive trade rules can only take place when taking into due consideration the local needs and realities of the country or region. The Chaudfontaine Group presents its views on essential elements for the creation of trade control systems.

The Chaudfontaine Group was established in 2010 as an annual two-day gathering of young Europeans with diverse academic backgrounds, including lawyers, economists and political scientists, from relevant national authorities, European institutions, scientific centres and industry. Its members are invited to discuss their respective viewpoints on the European trade of sensitive goods, focusing on the strategic issues confronting this sector in a rapidly evolving international context. In December 2013, at its fourth conference, the Group met with African experts to debate the question of how African countries control the trade of dual-use items and the challenges they face in their search for effective regulations. The objective was to study whether international norms and experiences, pertaining both to states and to organisations, could be used as standardised models for African countries affected by unique security concerns. This volume analyses and discusses those trade control systems which could be described as «models» and might therefore serve as a standard to be exported to the African countries in question. The debate is multi-levelled and studies the possibility of setting universal, regional or even-sub-regional norms. The contributors to this book, who display a wide variety of expertise, call for the adoption of norms which they argue have the potential to reconcile freedom of trade with international security, without presuming that these norms should be universal.

Auteur

Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor is a consultant working for the International Atomic Energy Agency and a distinguished expert and lecturer in general nuclear law
Quentin Michel is director of the European Studies Unit in the Department of Political Science at the University of Liège (Belgium).
Sylvain Paile-Calvo is a senior researcher in the European Studies Unit in the Department of Political Science at the University of Liège (Belgium).

Contenu

Contents: Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor: Introduction. Regional, Sub-Regional and National Trade Control Regimes Models: Choices for «Africa»? - Wolfgang Lehofer: Export Controls: Is a New Approach Needed? - Martin Palmer: «Joined up Thinking». The Pressing Need for Partnership in Compliance - Harald Hohmann: Transnational Consortia For Dual-Use Goods and National Export Control Regimes. Facing Diversity - Yacine Amara: Dual-Use Trade Control. National and Sub-Regional Model for Africa - John Kabange Mukubu: Export Controls of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies in the Democratic Republic of Congo? - Hamadi Iddi Boga: The Control of Export of Dual-Use Material from Kenya - Abdoul Rahimoune Massaoudou: Controlling Export of Nuclear Material and of Dual-Use Goods in Niger - Shamsideen B. Elegba: Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 in Nigeria - Andrea Viski: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540. A Universal Model? - Rosa Rosanelli: Arms Export Controls. Setting Common International Standards - Renaud Chatelus: Lessons Learnt from Strategic Trade Control Enforcement Capacity-Building in Western Africa - Crystal D. Pryor: From Global Straggler to Regional Exemplar. Japan's Export Control System 1990-present - Ekaterina Chirkova: Russian Dual-Use Trade Control. An Example to Follow? - Ivana Micic: EU as a Model, «Yes But» ... - Laszlo Stefan: The EU Regulation. Regime, Framework or Guidelines for Sub-Regional and/or National Regimes? - Sara Depauw: Bridging the Gap. The Role of Regional Organisations in Developing Universal Export Controls - Anne-Valentine Rensonnet: The EU Export Control Regime. Standards for the Walloon Region? - Velislava Zhivkova: Export Control Systems: a Bulgarian Perspective - Sylvain Paile-Calvo: EU Regulation + French Regulations = An Exportable Control Model? - Christos Charatsis: The EU Dual-Use Trade Control System for Greece - Lia Caponetti: From Models to a Model? - Miguel Sousa Ferro: A Portuguese Point of View.