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.
Waste recovery sites: 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.

Certify an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 31 December 2020
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Get an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 8 June 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
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
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 2021
- 12 May 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 2020
- 12 April 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 2021
- 12 April 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics, 2016
- 12 April 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics: 1 April to 30 June 2020
- 12 April 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 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
UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2016
- 20 July 2017
- Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Corporate report

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