Business and Enterprise - Eighth 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 3 July 2008.
Contents
Terms of Reference
REPORT
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1 INTRODUCTION
The Government's Review of Export Controls
Allegations of bribery and corruption
Review of annual and quarterly reports on
strategic export controls
2 THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEES
Relations between the Committees and
the Government
Review of drafts of secondary legislation
Evidence and witnesses
Written evidence
Visits
3 REVIEW OF EXPORT CONTROL
LEGISLATION
Research
Brokering, trafficking and extra-territoriality
Control of transport and ancillary services
Registration of brokers
End-use control for torture equipment
Re-exports
Licensed production overseas
"Single action" clause
Military end-use control
4 ENFORCEMENT
Seizures by HM Revenue and Customs
Level of penalties
Open licences
Compliance visits
Civil penalties
Bribery overseas
5 ORGANISATIONAL AND OPERATIONAL
ISSUES
Export Control Organisation
Export enforcement agency
Defence Export Sales Organisation (DESO)
F680 process
Defence attachés
Monitoring of imports
The UK Annual Report on strategic export
controls
The date of publication of the annual
report on strategic export controls
Form and content of annual reports on strategic
export controls
Quarterly reports
Specific cases raised with Government
Criterion 8: sustainable development
Open Individual Trade Control Licence: Ivory
Coast
Outreach report
6 ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION
IN DEFENCE CONTRACTS IN THE 1970S
Allegations made in June 2003
The 1976 Guidelines
The June 1976 case
Extra territorial jurisdiction for criminal
offences
7 CHALLENGING BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
Guidance to those dealing with exports
Risk of bribery and corruption
The Salam project
Enforcement
8 THE EU AND THE INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
Review of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms
Exports
Peer review of implementation of EU Council
Regulation 1334/2000
Changes to dual-use regulations
Intra- EU transfers
Slovak arms to Sri Lanka
International arms trade treaty
Proliferation Security Initiative
Arms embargo on China
Criteria for sponsorship of visits to arms
fairs
Cluster munitions
ANNEX 1: Letter from the Chair of the
Committees to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform
ANNEX 2: Note on the visit to the Port
of Southampton
1. Port visit — Detection
operations
2. Proliferation Security Initiative
(PSI)
3. The Knight Case
3. The Gyrocompass Case
4. The National Clearance Hub at Salford
(NCH)
ANNEX 3: Glossary of acronyms and initials
FORMAL MINUTES
WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
LIST OF REPORTS FROM THE COMMITTEES DURING
THE CURRENT PARLIAMENT
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
WRITTEN EVIDENCE
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