The level of protection that the body armour would offer would define it as dual use and therefore suitable for police, military and civilian use and not optimized for military.

In this context, it is appropriate to review the prohibition on the sale, supply or transfer to Iran of additional dual-use goods and technology listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items (6), with a view to including items which might be relevant to industries controlled directly or indirectly by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or which might be relevant to Iran's nuclear, military and ballistic missile programme, while taking into account the need to avoid unintended effects on the civilian popul ...[+++]ation of Iran.

A Member State may extend the application of paragraph 1 to non-listed dual-use items for uses referred to in Article 4(1) and to dual-use items for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2), (3) or (3a)".

A Member State may extend the application of paragraph 1 to non-listed dual-use items for uses referred to in Article 4(1) and to dual-use items for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2) or (3a)".

Article 44 Unnecessary duplication of procedures

(b) it shall contain at least two ð one ï blank ð double ï pages ð , and if several applicants are covered by the same travel document it shall contain one blank double page per applicant ï ;