Zangger Committee (ZC)
CONTACT DETAILS
Ms Carol Cliff, Secretary of the Zangger Committee
Permanent Mission of the UK, Jauresgasse 12, A-1030
Vienna, AUSTRIA
Tel: +43 (1) 716 13 0
Fax: +43 (1) 716 13 49 00
HISTORY AND PRESENT STATUS
The Zangger Committee (ZC) was formed in 1971 to
establish guidelines for implementing the export
control provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The Zangger Committee
was named after the first Chairman of the Committee,
Prof Claude Zangger of Switzerland. The purpose
of the ZC is to define and monitor trade in goods
and equipment specially designed for nuclear use.
South Africa became a member of the ZC on 23 October
1993. Zangger Committee Controls are implemented
in South Africa by the South African Nuclear Energy
Corporation (NECSA).
OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS
Department of Minerals and Energy
South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA)
MEMBERS
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia,
South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine,
United Kingdom, United States of America.
RELEVANT TREATIES AND PROTOCOLS ETC.
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT)
Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
GENERAL COMMENTS
The ZC guidelines for the export control provisions
of the NPT, are closely related to Article III(2)
of that Treaty. According to Article III(2), "Each
State party to the Treaty undertakes not to provide:
(a) source or special fissionable material or (b)
equipment or material especially designed or prepared
for the processing, use or production of special
fissionable material, to any non-nuclear weapon
State for peaceful purposes, unless the source or
special fissionable material shall be subject to
the safeguards required by this article". Similarities
exist between the Guidelines of the ZC and the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG).
The South African Government has since its inauguration
in 1994, committed itself to a policy of non-proliferation,
disarmament and arms control which covers all weapons
of mass destruction and extends to concerns relating
to the proliferation of conventional weapons.
The Government therefore supports all bilateral
and multilateral initiatives to prevent the proliferation
and development of such weapons on the one hand
and to promote total disarmament of these weapons
on the other.
