Weapons proliferation

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Services

• 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).

• Counter proliferation programme bidding form

  This form is for submitting project proposals relating to the counter proliferation programme 2020 to 2021.

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Guidance and regulation

• UK Strategic Export Control Lists
  • Detailed guide
  • 23 February 2017
  • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
• UK sanctions
  • Detailed guide
  • 28 August 2019
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Spire online export licensing: guidance
  • Guidance
  • 9 January 2017
  • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade
• Financial sanctions, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Guidance
  • 3 August 2020
  • HM Treasury and Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
• List of international non-proliferation regime members
  • Guidance
  • 31 July 2020
  • Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International Trade

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News and communications

Fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: joint statement

10 March 2020 — News story

Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

• Dstl Fellow Appointed to OPCW Scientific Advisory Board
  • 27 January 2020
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • Press release
• UN General Assembly 74, First Committee: thematic debate on outer space
  • 4 November 2019
  • World news story
• Registration opens for the 23rd International Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation (CWD) Conference hosted by The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
  • 31 October 2019
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • News story
• UN General Assembly 74th Session, First Committee: thematic debate on conventional weapons
  • 31 October 2019
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• China, North Korea and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
  • 25 September 2013
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• National Counter Proliferation Strategy to 2020
  • 24 March 2016
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Policy paper
• 2010 to 2015 government policy: weapons proliferation
  • 8 May 2015
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Closed organisation: Department for International Development, Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change, and Ministry of Defence
  • Policy paper
• National Counter Proliferation Strategy 2012-2015
  • 23 March 2012
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Policy paper
• The Chemical Weapons Convention UK National Authority
  • 15 March 2012
  • Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change
  • Policy paper
• Impact Assessment of the Cluster Munitions (Prohibitions) Bill
  • 4 May 2010
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Compliance with the Convention on Nuclear Safety Obligations: 7th national report
  • 21 September 2016
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Corporate report
• FCO Counter-Proliferation Programme 2015 to 2016
  • 26 August 2016
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Transparency
• Report on UK International Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Security Assistance Programmes
  • 14 June 2016
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence, and Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change
  • Corporate report
• Annual Report for 2013 on the operation of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996
  • 10 July 2014
  • Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change
  • Corporate report
• Compliance with the Convention on Nuclear Safety Obligations: 6th national report
  • 6 January 2014
  • Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for International Trade
• Ministry of Defence
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Defence and Security Accelerator

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• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• HM Treasury
• Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation HM Treasury

• Export Control Joint Unit
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority