8Category III—Ammunition/Ordnance

8  Category III—Ammunition/Ordnance

 (a) Ammunition/ordnance for the articles in Categories I and II of the DTCML.

 (b) Ammunition/ordnance handling equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles controlled in this category, such as, belting, linking, and de‑linking equipment.

 (c) Equipment and tooling specifically designed or modified for the production of defence articles controlled by this category.

 (d) Components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in this category:

 (1) guidance and control components for the articles in paragraph (a);

 (2) safing, arming and fusing components (including target detection and localisation devices) for the articles in paragraph (a); and

 (3) all other components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated equipment for the articles in paragraphs (a) to (c).

 (e) Technical data and defence services directly related to the defence articles enumerated in paragraphs (a) to (d).

 (f) The following explains and amplifies the terms used in this category and elsewhere in this list:

 (1) the components, parts, accessories and attachments controlled in this category include, but are not limited to cartridge cases, powder bags (or other propellant charges), bullets, jackets, cores, shells (excluding shotgun shells), projectiles (including canister rounds and sub‑munitions therefore), boosters, firing components therefore, primers, and other detonating devices for the defence articles controlled in this category;

 (2) this category does not control cartridge and shell casings that, prior to export, have been rendered useless beyond the possibility of restoration for use as a cartridge or shell casing by means of heating, flame treatment, mangling, crushing, cutting or popping;

 (3) equipment and tooling in paragraph (c) does not include equipment for hand‑loading ammunition;

 (4) the articles in this category include any end item, component, accessory, attachment, part, firmware, software, or system that has been designed or manufactured using technical data and defence services controlled by this category;

 (5) the articles specifically designed or modified for military application controlled in this category include any article specifically developed, configured, or adapted for military application.