ATECS surveillance for Pakistan and Vietnam
Goods category: Dual-use goods (Goods Control Act)
Public Domain – US-Regierung
ATECS repeatedly received export licences for surveillance technology to Pakistan, including 9.12 million Swiss francs in 2015 and 2.41 million in 2022. The two orders approved in 2022 concerned jamming equipment for mobile telecommunications services. A 2020 interpellation raised the risk of ATECS technology being used for repression in Pakistan.
In 2019, ATECS received licences to export surveillance technology to Vietnam worth nearly twelve million Swiss francs.
ATECS received export licences for surveillance technology to Malaysia in 2016, 2020 and 2021.
Effect of the proposed War Materiel Act revision
Dual-use goods are not subject to the War Materiel Act, but to the much weaker Goods Control Act. These cases are included for illustration.
Countries
Pakistan
Vietnam
MalaysiaCompanies
Time period
Approvals in 2015–2022