Committees on Arms Export Controls - First Joint Report
Scrutiny of Arms Exports (2012): UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2010, Quarterly Reports for July to December 2010 and January to September 2011, the Government's Review of arms exports to the Middle East and North Africa, and wider arms control issues
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 2 July 2012.
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Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
Glossary of Acronyms
Conclusions and recommendations
Extension of the Review to authoritarian
regimes and to countries of concern worldwide
1 Introduction
2 The Government's "United
Kingdom Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2010" (HC
1402)
3 The Committees' Report of 2010-11
(HC 686)
The Committees' Report and the Government's
Response (Cm 8079)
4 The Committees' questions on
the Government's quarterly information on arms export licences
Errors in export controls to Somalia
5 Arms export control legislation
and procedures
"Brass Plate" Companies
A pre-licence register of arms brokers
EU dual-use controls
EU end-use control of exported military goods
Torture end-use control and end-use control
of goods used for capital punishment
Re-export controls and undertakings
Licensed production overseas
The Consolidated Criteria
6 Organisational and operational
issues
Export Control Organisation (ECO)
Charging for processing arms export licences
Performance
Review of the ECO
Transparency of arms export licensing
Priority markets for UK arms exports
Trade Exhibitions
Enforcement
Compound penalties
Crown Dependencies
Combating bribery and corruption
International Development
7 International arms control and
co-operation
UK/US Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty
UK-France Defence and Security Co-operation
Treaty
The Intra-Community Transfer (ICT) Directive
on arms transfers within the EU
Cluster Munitions
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
The UK Government's role and policy
Sub-strategic and tactical nuclear weapons
Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty
The National Counter-Proliferation Strategy for 2012-2015
8 Arms export control policies
Arms exports and human rights
Overseas Security and Justice Assistance
(OSJA) Human Rights Guidance
Surveillance technology and equipment
Export of Tasers
Arms exports and internal repression
The Government's Arab Spring arms export
policy review
Arms export licence revocations
Countries of concern
Egypt
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Tunisia
Yemen
Argentina
China
Extension of the Review to authoritarian
regimes and to countries of concern worldwide
Annex 1: The Committees' quarterly licence
questions and the Government answers (2010 Q3 & 4, 2011 Q1,
Q2, & Q3)
The Committees' 2010 Quarter 3 (July - September)
questions and the Government's answers
The Committees' 2010 Quarter 4 (October -
December) questions and the Government's answers
The Committees' 2011 Quarter 1 (January -
March) questions and the Government's answers
The Committees' 2011 Quarter 2 (April - June)
questions and the Government's answers
The Committees' 2011 Quarter 3 (July - September)
questions and the Government's answers
Annex 2: Extra-territoriality (Offences)
Annex 3: The Consolidated Criteria
Annex 4: EU Council Common Position (2008/944/CFSP)
Annex 5: The Government's arms export licence
revocations since 1 January 2011
Annex 6: Selected arms export licence approvals
to countries in the Middle East and North Africa of arms or components
of arms which might be used to facilitate internal repression
for the period 1 October 2010 until 31 December 2011
Annex 7: Selected arms export licence approvals
to FCO "countries of concern" of arms or components
of arms which might be used to facilitate internal repression
for the period 1 January until 31 December 2011
Annex 8: Extant arms export licences to countries
in the Middle East and North Africa for goods which might be used
to facilitate internal repression
Annex 9: Arms export licences to Argentina
for the period 1 April 2010 until 31 December 2011
Annex 10: The Committees' correspondence
with Ministers
Annex 11: The Committees' questions and the
Government's answers to the Strategic Export Controls Annual Report
2010
Annex 12: National Counter Proliferation
Strategy 2012-2015
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of printed written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during
the current Parliament
Oral and Written Evidence - HC 419-II
Monday 23 January 2012: Roy Ibister, Team leader, Small Arms and Transfer Controls, Saferworld, Oliver Sprague, Programme Director, Military Security and Police, Amnesty International UK, and Martin Butcher, Policy Adviser, Arms Campaign, Oxfam GB; David Hayes, Chairman of EGAD, David Hayes Export Controls, Bernadette Peers, Compliance Manager, Strategic Shipping Company Ltd, Brinley Salzmann, Secretary of EGAD, ADS Group Ltd, and Barry Fletcher, Executive Committee Member of EGAD, Fletcher International Export Consultancy
Tuesday 7 February 2012: Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade, Tom Smith, Head of the Export Control Organisation, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Chris Chew, Head of Policy, Export Control Organisation; Rt Hon William Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Sarah MacIntosh, Director of Defence and International Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and David Hall, Deputy Head, Counter-Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Written Evidence
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