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: project proposal forms

  These forms are for submitting project proposals for the Counter Proliferation Programme for the financial year 2023 to 2024.

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Guidance and regulation

• UK sanctions
  • Detailed guide
  • 24 February 2022
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Applying for export licences using SPIRE
  • Guidance
  • 26 April 2021
  • Export Control Joint Unit, Closed organisation: Department for International Trade, and Department for Business and Trade
• Financial sanctions, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Guidance
  • 21 August 2023
  • HM Treasury and Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
• End-use controls applying to WMD-related items, including technical help
  • Detailed guide
  • 19 December 2022
  • Export Control Joint Unit, Closed organisation: Department for International Trade, and Department for Business and Trade
• Exporting items on the ‘Trigger List’
  • Detailed guide
  • 31 December 2020
  • Export Control Joint Unit, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and Closed organisation: Department for International Trade

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News and communications

• Hypersonic missiles: travelling at the speed of sound...times 5
  • 24 July 2023
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • News story
• UK National Statement - OPCW 103rd Executive Council
  • 11 July 2023
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Speech
• Experts convene for Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference
  • 25 May 2023
  • Ministry of Defence and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • News story
• UK reveals Royal Navy seizure of smuggled Iranian missiles
  • 7 July 2022
  • Ministry of Defence
  • News story
• Register for the 2022 international Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference
  • 11 April 2022
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • News story

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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

• UK-Morocco inaugural Ministerial Association Council: joint communique
  • 9 December 2021
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Closed organisation: Department for International Trade
  • Policy paper
• 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

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Compliance with the Convention on Nuclear Safety Obligations: 9th national report
  • 25 April 2023
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Corporate report
• Compliance with the Convention on Nuclear Safety Obligations: 7th national report
  • 21 September 2016
  • Closed organisation: 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

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Organisations

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

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• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• HM Treasury
• Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation HM Treasury

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