TIM Dual-Use is a web-based platform tailored to the mapping of:
1. Dual-use technologies listed in the "EU dual-use control list" (Annex I to Regulation 2021/821, as amended under annual delegated Acts), divided into ten categories covering multiple areas:
• Category 0 Nuclear Materials, Facilities and Equipment
• Category 1 Special Materials and Related Equipment
• Category 2 Material Processing
• Category 3 Electronics
• Category 4 Computers
• Category 5 Telecommunications and Information Security
• Category 6 Sensors and Lasers
• Category 7 Navigation and Avionics
• Category 8 Marine
• Category 9 Aerospace and Propulsion
2. Selected emerging and critical technologies, generally not listed, but with several potential dual-use applications (i.e., having both civilian and military applications):
• Additive Manufacturing
• Advanced Materials
• Advanced Semiconductors
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biotechnology
• Cyber-Surveillance
• Quantum Technology
The purpose of TIM DU is to interrogate the TIM database, containing over 102 million documents derived from SCOPUS abstracts, PATSTAT international patents and EU-funded research projects (CORDIS database), to retrieve documents with a dual-use potential content, which pending further assessment could be subject to export authorisations prior to publication or sharing, as required by Regulation (EU) 2021/821.
TIM DU’s mapping of Dual-use technologies is performed by means of more than 380 search algorithms based on keywords related to the "EU dual-use control list" text, as well as some emerging and critical technologies, with their scientific and technical synonyms.
The results encompass lists of papers, statistics, connection networks, lists of organisations, semantic analysis and world distribution.
The applications of TIM Dual-Use can be multiple:
- Mapping of a country’s R&D international cooperation networks related to dual-use;
- Mapping of specific research institutes, companies, Universities, researchers’ scientific publications with regard to potential dual-use technologies;
- Monitoring of emerging technologies (technological development and trends, as appearing from chronological and geographical developments).
For research entities in particular, TIM DU can help:
- Assessing the past scientific production to identify articles, patents or EU-funded project results already produced and published, which could have had a potential dual-use content;
- Identifying areas for targeted awareness-raising activities to reinforce internal compliance for technology transfers.
SEVINI Filippo;
CAPONETTI Enzo;
ARNES NOVAU Xavier;
GRABOWSKA Marcelina;
2025-12-19
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC143235
978-92-68-34514-6 (online),
OP KJ-01-25-609-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC143235,
10.2760/1617980 (online),
