Quadripartite - First 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 23 July 2007.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1 INTRODUCTION
Review of export controls
The Government's 2007 Consultation Document
The Committees' review of the legislation
2 THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEES
Relations between the Committees and
the Government
Evidence and witnesses
Written evidence
Visits
3 REVIEW OF EXPORT CONTROL
LEGISLATION
Background to the legislation
Aims of the legislation
Issues from the Scott Inquiry
Post-legislative scrutiny
Research
4 THE LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK
The Export Control Act 2002: overall
assessment
Parliamentary scrutiny of secondary legislation
and guidance
Clarity of the secondary legislation
Challenges in the courts
Notice of changes to the secondary legislation
Effectiveness of the legislation
Brokering and trafficking and extra-territoriality
Effectiveness of the extra-territorial
controls
Extending the extra-territorial controls
Registration of brokers
"Catch-all" provisions (weapons
of mass destruction)
Transfer of software (weapons of mass destruction)
5 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Legislative treatment of sustainable
development
Role of Department for International
Development
Impact of irresponsible and illegal arms
transfers on developing countries
The number of refusals given on grounds of
incompatibility with Criterion 8
Conclusions on the weight given by the legislation
to sustainable development
The filtering process for applications
Methodology used by DFID
Publication of the methodology
Bribery and corruption
6 ENFORCEMENT OF THE LEGISLATION
Section 68(2) the Customs and Excise Management
Act 1979
Co-ordination and comparison with other jurisdictions
Resources for prosecutions
Alternatives to prosecution under section
68(2) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979
Extension of administrative arrangements
Prosecution under section 68(1) of the Customs
and Excise Management Act 1979
Use of warning letters
Disruption of exports of concern
Seizures
The role of the intelligence services
Level of penalties
Intangible transfers of technology
Effects on academic research
Open general licences
Compliance visits
Dual-use
Appeals
Exports to British forces operating overseas
Internet
Arms fairs
End-use
End-use controls on torture equipment
7 GAPS IN THE LEGISLATION
Licensed production overseas
Overseas subsidiary companies
Military End-Use Control (or "catch-all")
Transportation and other services
Prior scrutiny and end-use verification
Future Proofing
8 EFFECTS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC
CONSEQUENCES OF THE LEGISLATION
Economic consequences
Burdens on business
Implementation of the controls on intangible
transfers of technology
Transitional arrangements
Unforeseen consequences
Conclusions
9 ORGANISATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
ISSUES
Export Control Organisation
WMD publications by the ECO
Outreach: UK
5 year open individual export licences
Export enforcement agency
Monitoring of imports
Defence attachés
10 EU REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES
Transfers of military goods with the EU
New dual-use EU Regulations
Human rights
Transparency
Exports to Israel and Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Arms embargo on China
11 THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Bribery and corruption
International outreach
Multilateral Export Control Agreements
Cluster bombs
12 ANNUAL AND QUARTERLY REPORTS
ON STRATEGIC EXPORT CONTROLS
Date of publication of the Annual Report
2005 Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls
Annual Report: section on resources
Annual Report: section on policy overview
Annual Report: section containing "country
by destination" statistics and analyses
2006 Quarterly Reports on Strategic Export
Controls
Statistics on defence exports
Database of decisions
Specific cases raised with Government
13 CONCLUSION
ANNEX
FORMAL MINUTES
WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
REPORTS FROM THE DEFENCE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEES SINCE
2001
ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE
7 December 2006
1 March 2007
15 March 2007
Written Evidence
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