Effect of the proposed War Materiel Act revision

Under the new Article 22b, the Federal Council could depart from all the licensing criteria in Article 22a under vaguely defined ‘exceptional circumstances’. The public would not have to be informed. Depending on the recipient state to which the case is assigned today, Article 22a paragraph 2bis would make approval the rule for Annex 2 states; the Federal Council could add further states to Annex 2 by amending the ordinance. Article 18 paragraph 1 would make non-re-export declarations by government end recipients a requirement dependent on the situation and could thus facilitate onward transfers. The recipient states in this entry are not individually named, so no reliable country-specific SIPRI example is possible.