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New trade sanctions on Russia entered into force on 24 April 2025.
This licence provides regulation on the provision of technical assistance, financial services and funds, and brokering services.
Open general licences that include Hong Kong have been changed or amended to bring them in line with restrictions on China.
The necessary steps have been taken to comply with the judgment of the Court of Appeal of 20 June 2019 regarding licences for military exports to Saudi Arabia for possible use in the conflict in Yemen.
Annex I of EU regulation 428/2009 (list of dual use controlled items) has been updated and the consolidated list of strategic military and dual-use items has been amended and republished accordingly.
Annex I of EU regulation 428/2009 (list of dual use controlled items) to be updated soon.
The Department for International Trade has updated 2 open general export licences (OGELs).
New versions of 6 open general export licences, excluding Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners, have been published.
Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) recently issued a penalty of more than £10,000 to a UK exporter for trading goods outside the UK without a licence.
Unlicensed exports of dual use goods and breaches of export controls have cost UK companies thousands of pounds.
This notice sets out additional sanctions measures on Russia.
This notice sets out changes to the military end-use controls from 19 May 2022.
This notice advises on changes to the strategic export controls: reports and statistics website to accommodate licences processed by the new system (LITE).
This notice advises of revisions to the General Trade Licence Russia Sanctions - Vessels.
This notice advises that terms of some open general export licences (OGELs) were revised on 24 March 2022.
Extant and new dual-use licences to Russia have been suspended. Nine open general export control licences (OGELs) updated to remove Russia as a permitted destination.
Dual-use regulation EU 2021/821 is now in force in Northern Ireland. New applications for dual-use items from Northern Ireland will need to comply with this regulation.
Update on the new digital export licensing platform LITE which will replace SPIRE.
When the exceptional circumstances express clearance facility can be used for MOD Form 680 applications.
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