ANNEX 1: LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THE
COMMITTEES TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY
REFORM
The Trade in Goods (Categories of Controlled Goods)
Order 2008
BERR wrote to the Committees on Arms Export Controls
on 30 May inviting comments on the draft Trade in Goods (Categories
of Controlled Goods) Order 2008 by 13 June.
In the time available the Committees have not been
able to meet but I have taken informal soundings on the draft
Order. On the basis that the Order goes some way to meet the Committees'
recommendations made in previous reports that the extra-territorial
reach of the legislation should be extended and that there is
scope to make further changes in the third tranche of secondary
legislation the Committees raise no objection to the proposed
Order.
The Committees would be grateful for an assurance
that BERR will provide at least two months for the Committees
to consider the third tranche of changes, which I understand may
emerge in the autumn.
June 2008
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