Le commerce des biens et de la technologie nucleaires necessaires au developpement d un projet industriel pacifique tel que la construction d une centrale electronucleaire est intimement lie a l histoire de cette energie dont les premieres applications importantes furent les deux armes nucleaires utilisees en 1944 contre les villes d Hiroshima et de Nagasaki.
Pour tenter de trouver un juste equilibre entre le developpement pacifique de cette source d energie et la lutte contre les risques de son detournement a des fins destructrices, differents regimes de controle des exportations ont ete...

In 2010, the European Studies Unit of the University of Liege, under the aegis of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, invited young researchers from all over Europe to meet and discuss the existing rules governing the trade of items that may be used for both peaceful and non-peaceful purposes.
During a two-day conference held in Chaudfontaine, Belgium, each participant presented the export control system of his or her member state. Debates took place with eminent specialists, representatives of the European institutions and representatives from industry on the...

The Chaudfontaine Group was established in 2010 in order to hold an annual two-day meeting gathering young Europeans with diverse academic backgrounds lawyers, economists and political scientists from relevant national authorities and European institutions, from industry and from European academic centres. Its members are invited to discuss their respective viewpoints on strategic issues concerning the European trade of sensitive goods in a constantly and rapidly evolving international context.
In November 2012, at its third conference, the Group debated the subject of the European...

In order to maintain international security and above all to ensure that weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, be they nuclear, radiological, bacteriological or chemical, do not proliferate it is now widely acknowledged in the international community that commerce may be, and in some cases must be, constrained. So-called -dual-use- goods, which can be used for either peaceful or non-peaceful purposes, are subject to such trade restrictions.
The regulations which govern this specific trade at global, regional or national level seek to ensure that the needs of legitimate...