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Services

  1. End-user undertaking (EUU) form

    Download a form to accompany applications for a standard individual export licence (SIEL).

  2. Open individual export licence (OIEL) undertaking template

    A consignee undertaking which is required to be completed in accordance with open individual Export Licence conditions.

  3. Change a vehicle load compartment for TIR border crossings

    Apply to get a certificate if you change an approved load compartment design to make sure it still meets the rules to be used under the TIR scheme.

  4. Get a certificate for a vehicle using an approved design for TIR border crossings

    Apply to get a certificate to prove a load compartment follows a design you've had approved to be used under the TIR scheme for international border crossings.

  5. Waste recovery sites: Waste consents pre-consent application form

    If you operate a waste recovery site with a permit and regularly receive shipments of the same waste, you may benefit from having a pre-consent.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. List of controlled goods for transitional simplified procedures
    • Detailed guide
    • HM Revenue & Customs
  2. Export horses and ponies: special rules
    • Detailed guide
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  3. UK Strategic Export Control Lists
    • Detailed guide
    • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
  4. Export food, drink and agricultural products
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  5. Consolidated list of strategic military and dual-use items that require export authorisation
    • Guidance
    • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
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News and communications

Correspondence

Letter to the Committees on Arms Export Controls

Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade

  1. Trade Remedies Authority on track to protect UK industry
    • Department for International Trade
    • News story
  2. Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary Chair Statement 2018
    • World news story
  3. New markets, new opportunities: doing business with Iran
    • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Speech
  4. Sanctions relief paves the way for developing UK trade relationship with Iran
    • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Closed organisation: UK Trade & Investment, UK Export Finance, and Export Control Joint Unit
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 1 July to 30 September 2011
    • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
    • Official statistics
  2. Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 1 July to 30 September 2017
    • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
    • Official statistics
  3. Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 2016
    • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
    • Official statistics
  4. Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 1 October to 31 December 2018
    • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
    • Official statistics
  5. Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 1 April to 30 June 2017
    • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Pre-licensing register of arms brokers: call for evidence
    • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Export Control Joint Unit
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 30 May 2014
  2. 2010 to 2015 government policy: export controls
    • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Department for International Development, Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Ministry of Defence
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. UK Strategic Export Controls annual report 2018
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Export Control Joint Unit
    • Corporate report
  2. UK Strategic Export Controls annual report 2017
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Corporate report
  3. UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2016
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Corporate report
  4. Existing export licences for military and dual-use goods to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania
    • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Foi release
  5. Strategic export controls
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Corporate report
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