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Defence and Strategic Goods List

The Defence and Strategic Goods List (DSGL) has undergone its annual review for 2007.

The 2007 List reflects advances in technology, re-focusing of non-proliferation aims and variations to control parameter thresholds. Changes include the addition of new items, additions as sub-sets to existing control entries, the removal of some controls that are no longer relevant to non-proliferation aims and changes to existing text to improve clarity.

The following Summary of Changes is provided for reference purposes only: Summary of Changes 2007 (PDF 21KB)

The DECO Directorate within the Department of Defence administers the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958, Regulation 13E and has the authority to approve permits and licenses. Those goods which require a Defence permit or license are listed in the Defence and Strategic Goods List (DSGL).


The DSGL, which is specified in Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958, Regulation 13E, details all goods which are controlled, including military and dual use equipment, nuclear material, chemicals and toxins, electronics, software and technology. The DSGL is updated on a regular basis and we will advertise on this website and in our regular bulletin to advise of each new edition.


The genesis of the DSGL is the international export control regimesof which Australia is a member. The regimes include the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, the Australia Group on chemical and biological weapons and materials, the Nuclear Suppliers' Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime. These four multilateral regimes have a common objective in seeking to control the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems as well as the transfer of conventional weapons and dual-use technologies with destabilising implications, through the coordination of national export control policies. This is achieved through the implementation by member States of the export control lists developed by each of the regimes.