Foreign Affairs - Sixth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 5 May 2004.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
1 INTRODUCTION
Co-operation with Government
Information denied
2 INFORMATION
AND SCRUTINY
Transparency: the state of play
Changes already announced to the Annual
Report
The case for a wider review
End-use information
Examples of misleading information
Implications for transparency and scrutiny
Actual exports
Improving parliamentary scrutiny
3 SCRUTINY
OF LICENSING DECISIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CRITERIA
Individual licensing decisions during
2002
General issues
Criterion Eight (Sustainable Development)
and the involvement of for International Development in the licensing
process
Government and the supply side of defence
exports
4 END
USE ASSURANCES: INDONESIA
Some recent history
Purpose and transparency
Use of British equipment in Aceh
Monitoring possible breaches of the assurances
Available sanctions
Conclusion: monitoring assurances
5 EUROPEAN
UNION
Ongoing review of the Code
Differing interpretation by different member
states - does it matter?
Denial notification and undercut procedure
Embargo on China
The British position
The arguments
The need for clarity
Effect on British business
WMD Action Plan and involvement of Commission
Controlling equipment used in torture
and capital punishment
Consistency and the role of the European
Commission
Peer review process
Enlargement
Standard of control in accession states
Outreach and support
Membership of export control regimes
6 WIDER
INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
Existing international export control
regimes
Proposal for an Arms Trade Treaty
Export control issues in other international
organisations
New arrangements
7 ENFORCEMENT
IN THE UK
Preventing undesirable exports: the criminal
and the unintentional
Bureaucracy and competitiveness
Results of JEWEL review
New controls under the Export Control Act
Impact on industry
Role of Customs and Excise
Capacity
8 CONCLUSION
ANNEX: LETTER TO THE FOREIGN SECRETARY
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
FORMAL MINUTES
WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
REPORTS FROM THE DEFENCE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEES SINCE
2001
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
WRITTEN EVIDENCE
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