(a)sale, supply, transfer or export of non-lethal military equipment or of equipment which might be used for internal repression, intended solely for humanitarian or protective use, or for institution building programmes of the United Nations (UN) and of the Union, or for Union and UN crisis management operations;
(b)sale, supply, transfer or export of non-lethal military equipment or of non-lethal equipment which might be used for internal repression, intended solely to enable the police and gendarmerie of the Republic of Guinea to use only appropriate and proportionate force while maintaining public order;
(c)sale, supply, transfer or export of non-combat vehicles which have been manufactured or fitted with materials to provide ballistic protection, intended solely for the protective use of the personnel of the Union and its Member States in the Republic of Guinea;
(d)return of non-combat transport helicopters, stripped of military equipment, solely for the use of the Guinean authorities, provided that the government of the Republic of Guinea has given a prior written undertaking that their use will remain under civilian control and that they will not be equipped with military equipment;
(e)provision of technical assistance, brokering services and other services related to the items referred to in (a) to (d) or to programmes and operations referred to in (a);
(f)provision of financing and financial assistance related to the items referred to in (a) to (d) or to programmes and operations referred to in (a);
(g)sale, supply, transfer or export of explosives and related equipment intended solely for civilian use in mining and infrastructure investments and the provision of technical assistance, brokering services and other services as well as the provision of financing and financial assistance related to such items, provided that the storage and use of the explosives and related equipment and services are controlled and verified by an independent body and that the providers of related services are identified;
on condition that such exports and assistance have been approved in advance by the relevant competent authority.In cases falling within point (g) a Member State shall inform the other Member States two weeks in advance of its intention to grant an approval under that point.