Editing Wassenaar Arrangement (section)

== Admission requirements ==

Admission requires states to:

* Be a producer or exporter of arms or sensitive industrial equipment
* Maintain non-proliferation policies and appropriate national policies, including adherence to:
** Non-proliferation policies, such as (where applicable) the [[Nuclear Suppliers Group]], the [[Missile Technology Control Regime]], and the [[Australia Group]]
** [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]], the [[Biological Weapons Convention]], the [[Chemical Weapons Convention]] and, where applicable, [[START I]] (including the [[Lisbon Protocol]])
* Maintain fully effective [[export control]]s

The Arrangement is open on a global and non-discriminatory basis to prospective adherents that comply with the agreed criteria. Admission of new members requires the [[Unanimity|consensus of all members]].

[[India]] joined as the 42nd participating state on 7 December 2017. "Wassenaar Arrangement participating states reviewed the progress of a number of current membership applications and agreed at the plenary meeting to admit India which will become the Arrangement's 42nd participating state as soon as the necessary procedural arrangements for joining the WA are completed", the grouping said in a statement.<ref>{{cite web|last=Falconi|first=Jean-Louis|date=7 December 2017|title=Statement Issued by the Plenary Chair on 2017 Outcomes of the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies|url=https://www.wassenaar.org/app/uploads/2017/12/WA-Plenary-2017-Chairs-Statement.pdf |publisher=Wassenaar Arrangement|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043759/https://www.wassenaar.org/app/uploads/2017/12/WA-Plenary-2017-Chairs-Statement.pdf |archive-date=2019-03-06 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=8 December 2017|title=Wassenaar Arrangement decides to make India its member|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/wassenaar-arrangement-decides-to-make-india-its-member/article21293077.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|agency=Press Trust of India|access-date=2023-04-06}}</ref> India's application was supported by Russia, the United States, France and Germany.<ref>{{cite news|date=8 December 2017|title=India becomes member of key export control regime|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/india-becomes-member-of-key-export-control-regime-117120800044_1.html|newspaper=Business Standard|agency=Indo-Asian News Service|access-date=2023-04-06}}</ref>