Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Strategic Export Controls (CoCom)
Comité de coordination pour le contrôle multilatéral des exportations stratégiques
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Founded
1949 Paris France
History
1949, Paris (France), as part of C-XC3005 - NATO. Also referred to as: Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls; Coordinating Committee on Export Controls; Consultative Group Cooperation Committee; Paris Committee and in French as Comité commercial d'approbation des ventes. The full title was also previously reported as: Coordinating Committee for Exports to Communist Areas. Ceased to exist Apr 1994. Superseded by F-XF4482 - Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (Wassenaar Arrangement).
Aims
Compile lists of goods considered to be of strategic importance and therefore not to be sold, directly or indirectly, by the West to certain proscribed countries; facilitate efforts to maintain a Western strategic embargo, in particular on high-tech computer and electronics items.
Events
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Classified, but includes exports monitoring committee.
Members
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UIA Org ID
XF4582
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