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How you import from and export to the ESA states.
What private maritime security companies (PMSCs) need to provide to comply with licence conditions.
Check if you can send goods for humanitarian aid purposes using a simplified customs process.
How Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) correct errors and show amendments in our published strategic export controls licensing statistics.
Sets out the government's service delivery objectives, commitments and targets for management of export licensing applications.
The Home Office has launched the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS).
Allows the holder to promote the supply of military goods to Iraq, or to supply those goods within the UK before export to Iraq. It is not a licence to export military goods to Iraq.
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) has updated 13 open general export licences (OGELs).
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) has a new ultimate end-user screen for exporters to fill in.
The torture goods regulation has been amended.
The ECJU's notice of the upcoming Statutory Instrument (SI): the Export Control (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2025.
The UK has formally acceded to the Agreement on Defence Export Controls.
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) has updated 8 OGELs.
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) confirms the licence transmission issue is resolved and normal declarations may resume.
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) has updated the general trade licence Russia sanctions for sectoral software and technology.
Licence allowing certain historic military goods to be exported from the UK to permitted destinations.
The Department for International Trade has reviewed the scope of 2 open general export licences to make them more useable.
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) has amended the Export Control Order 2008 (“the 2008 Order”) and the Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) notification on CDS currently unable to accept special and diacritic characters.
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