Foreign Affairs Committee - Sixth Report
Scrutiny of Arms Export Controls (2009): UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2007, Quarterly Reports for 2008, licensing policy and review of export control legislation

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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 20 July 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Conclusions and recommendations

1 Introduction

The Government's Review of Export Controls

Review of annual and quarterly reports on strategic export controls

2 The work of the Committees

Relations between the Committees and the Government

Export Control Organisation Reports and Statistics Website

Review of drafts of secondary legislation

Evidence and witnesses

Oral evidence

Written evidence

Classification of written evidence

Visits

3 Review of export control legislation

Introduction

Extra-territorial controls

Anti-vehicle landmines

Transport and ancillary services, transit and transhipment

Register of arms brokers

End-use control for torture equipment

Re-exports

Licensed production overseas

Military end-use controls and the "single action" clause

End-user undertakings

Research

4 Enforcement

Introduction

Open General Licences

Civil penalties

5 Organisational and operational issues

The date of publication of the annual report on strategic export controls

Form and content of annual reports on strategic export controls

Export Control Organisation Reports and Statistics Website

Export Control Error

6 Challenging bribery and corruption

Introduction

Tackling bribery through the licensing process

Draft Bribery Bill

7 The EU and the international perspective

Introduction

Adoption of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports as a Common Position

Peer review of implementation of EU Council Regulation 1334/2000 on dual use

EU Arms Embargo on China

Progress towards an Arms Trade Treaty

The scope and strength of an Arms Trade Treaty

Sri Lanka

Israel

Reviewing licences for exports to Israel

Annex 1: Letter from the Chair of the Committees to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Annex 2: Note of the visit to Ukraine

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of Joint Reports from the Committees during the current Parliament




Oral and Written Evidence
21 January 2009
11 March 2009
22 April 2009
Written Evidence




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Prepared 19 August 2009