Select Committee on Defence Minutes of Evidence


APPENDIX 17

Memorandum submitted by the Department of Trade and Industry

FURTHER INFORMATION ON CERTAIN LICENSING DECISIONS DETAILED IN THE GOVERNMENT'S SECOND REPORT ON STRATEGIC EXPORT CONTROLS

  1.  The Committee requested certain further information about various licensing decisions between1 January and 31 December 1998, as set out in the Government's 1998 Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls, published on 3 November 1999.

  2.  The decisions on which further information has been requested are summarised in Annexes A to C to this Memorandum, and in the confidential annex at Annex E.

  3.  Regrettably, a small number of errors and omissions have been identified in Part II of the Report. We are reviewing out procedures to minimise the risk of such errors occurring in the future. As was noted in the Report, human error cannot be eliminated altogether in the compilation of such a large body of data. Deails are given at Annex D.

ANNEXES
Annex ADecisions between 1 January and 31 December 1998 to refuse or uphold an appeal against a decision to refuse an application or revoke a licence
Annex BiApplications refused between 1 January and 31 December 1998
Annex BiiOpen Individual Export Licences from whose destination coverage countries were excluded between 1 January and 31 December 1998
Annex BiiiLicences revoked between 1 January and 31 December 1998
Annex CSelected standard individual export licences issued between 1 January and 31 December 1998
Annex CiAll military SIELs and OIELs issued to China
Annex CiiAll military SIELs and OIELs issued to Hong Kong SAR
Annex DErrata to the Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls
Annex EConfidential annex[76]

CONFIDENTIAL ANNEX E

  Annex E to this Memorandum contains the additional information requested by the Committee and is provided to the Committee in confidence.

January 2000





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