Annex 4: Selected arms export licence
approvals to countries in North Africa and the Middle East of
arms or components of arms that could be used for internal repression
From the information on the BIS and FCO websites,
since 1 January 2009.
Table A by calendar years
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| Country | Examples of approved UK arms exports in2009
| Examples of approved UK arms exports in 2010 up to 30 September being the latest date up to which this information is currently available
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| Algeria | Components for combat helicopters, components for military utility helicopters
| Components for military utility vehicles, combat helicopters, military utility helicopters
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| Bahrain | Assault rifles, components for combat aircraft, small arms ammunition, submachine guns, weapon sights, aircraft cannons, shotguns
| Rifles, shotguns, small arms ammunition, submachine guns, sniper rifles, CS hand grenades, smoke ammunition, smoke canisters, smoke hand grenades, stun grenades, tear gas/irritant ammunition, tear gas/riot control agents
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| Egypt | Training small arms ammunition, general purpose machine guns, imaging cameras, components for armoured personnel carriers, unfinished products for grenade launchers, components for submachine guns, electronic warfare equipment, equipment for the operation of military aircraft in confined areas
| Components for semi-automatic pistols, components for submachine guns, training small arms ammunition, unfinished products for armoured fighting vehicles, unfinished products for weapon night sights
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| Iran | Nil | Nil
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| Iraq | General purpose machine guns, assault rifles, small arms ammunition, stun grenades, components for general purpose machine guns
| small arms ammunition, semi-automatic pistols, smoke cannisters, fragmentation rockets, large calibre artillery ammunition, small calibre artillery ammunition
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| Jordan | Armoured personnel carriers, assault rifles, CS hand grenades, submachine guns, tear gas/irritant ammunition, armoured fighting vehicles, arranging the acquisition of small arms ammunition
| Assault rifles, combat shotguns, grenade launchers, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, imaging cameras, armoured personnel carriers
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| Kuwait | Small arms ammunition, signal hand grenades, submachine guns, technology for the use of grenade launchers, armoured personnel carriers, software for the use of combat helicopters
| grenade launchers, signal hand grenades, military utility vehicles
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| Libya | artillery computers, combat shotguns, tear gas/irritant ammunition, military cargo vehicles, ground vehicle military communications equipment, command communications control and intelligence equipment
| technology for the use of infrared/thermal imaging equipment, crowd control ammunition, small arms ammunition, tear gas/irritant ammunition
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| Morocco | Shotguns, components for combat aircraft
| components for large calibre artillery, components for armoured fighting vehicles, components for armoured personnel carriers, components for combat helicopters
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| Oman | small arms ammunition, semi-automatic pistols, components for tanks, components for armoured fighting vehicles, submachine guns
| tear gas/irritant ammunition, components for armoured personnel carriers, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, submachine guns, CS hand grenades, signal hand grenades, stun grenades
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| Qatar | components for combat helicopters, components for combat aircraft, CS hand grenades, small arms ammunition, stun grenades, tear gas/irritant ammunition, submachine guns
| components for heavy machine guns, heavy machine guns, small arms ammunition, CS hand grenades, stun grenades, tear gas/irritant ammunition
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| Saudi Arabia | components for combat aircraft, CS hand grenades, tear gas/irritant ammunition, tear gas/riot control agents, sniper rifles, small calibre artillery ammunition, small arms ammunition
| components for combat aircraft, sniper rifles, armoured personnel carriers, small arms ammunition, components for combat aircraft,
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| Syria | equipment employing cryptography
| small arms ammunition |
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| Tunisia | components for assault rifles, components for general purpose machine guns, components for semi-automatic pistols, training small arms ammunition
| components for assault rifles, training small arms ammunition, components for semi-automatic pistols
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| United Arab Emirates | assault rifles, components for general purpose machine guns, components for submachine guns, shotguns, small arms ammunition, submachine guns
| components for air-to-surface missiles, components for armoured fighting vehicles, small arms ammunition, submachine guns, CS hand grenades, tear gas/irritant ammunition
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| Yemen | body armour, components for body armour
| night vision goggles, components for military cameras, technology for the use of military cameras
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Source: This Note is supplied by the House of Commons
Library
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