Export controls and licensing

Services

Endangered species: apply for an import and export permit
Apply for a permit to import, export or re-export a CITES-listed specimen in or out of the UK.
End-user undertaking (EUU) form
End-user undertaking form which must be completed to comply with standard individual export licence (SIEL) and standard individual trade control licence (SITCL) terms and conditions.
Open individual export licence (OIEL) undertaking template
End-user undertaking form which must be completed to comply with OIEL terms and conditions.
Stockist undertaking (SU) form
Form which must be completed to meet standard individual export licence (SIEL) or standard individual trade control licence (SITCL) terms and conditions.
End-user certificate (EUC) for Chemical Weapons Convention Schedule 3 chemicals to states not party to the convention
End-user undertaking form which must be completed as part of the application for a standard individual export licence (SIEL).

Certify an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 31 December 2020
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Apply for an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 31 December 2020
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Consolidated list of strategic military and dual-use items that require export authorisation
- Guidance
- 4 February 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
Get an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 19 August 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
UK Strategic Export Control Lists
- Detailed guide
- 23 February 2017
- Department for International Trade and Export Control Joint Unit

UK music execs hail benefits of UK-New Zealand trade deal 
- 16 April 2022
- Department for International Trade
- News story
Export controls on academic research
- 31 March 2021
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Case study
Letter to the Committees on Arms Export Controls
- 16 September 2019
- Department for International Trade and Export Control Joint Unit
- Correspondence
Trade Remedies Authority on track to protect UK industry
- 17 January 2019
- Department for International Trade
- News story
Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary Chair Statement 2018
- 10 December 2018
- World news story

Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 1 July to 30 September 2017
- 8 November 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 1 July to 30 September 2018
- 8 November 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 1 April to 30 June 2018
- 8 November 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 2017
- 8 November 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 2019
- 8 November 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics

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

UK strategic export controls annual report 2021
- 21 July 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Corporate report
UK strategic export controls annual report 2020
- 27 July 2021
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Corporate report
UK Strategic Export Controls annual report 2019
- 1 December 2020
- Export Control Joint Unit, Department for International Trade, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Ministry of Defence
- Corporate report
UK Strategic Export Controls annual report 2018
- 18 July 2019
- Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Export Control Joint Unit
- Corporate report
UK Strategic Export Controls annual report 2017
- 23 July 2018
- Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Corporate report

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