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Find out which radioactive sources you need a licence to export and how to apply for one.
Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.
How the UK's strategic export controls apply to academics, university researchers and their institutions, and when an export licence is needed.
Information on trade sanctions, arms embargoes and trade restrictions, including trade controls, transit controls and restrictions on terrorist organisations.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Guidance and information on the UK subsidy control regime.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
When military end-use export controls apply and to which destinations.
Sets out the measures that the extension to the Infection Control and Testing Fund supports, including distribution of funds, conditions and reporting requirements. We’ve extended the fund until 30 September 2021.
Guidance for businesses on OPSS border controls.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
The Cabinet Office spend controls help organisations to reduce unnecessary spend and encourage cross-government collaboration.
Apply for the Registered Traveller service to get through UK border control faster and without filling in a landing card
The UK's regulatory framework for strategic export controls and the circumstances where you might need an export licence.
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles?
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) administers the UK’s system of export controls and licensing for military and dual-use items. ECJU is part of the Department for Business and Trade .
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
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