Glossary of Acronyms
ATAS Academic Technology Approval Scheme
ATT Arms Trade Treaty
BIS Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills
BTWC Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention
CAAT Campaign Against Arms Trade
CAEC Committees on Arms Export Controls
CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological,
and Nuclear
CBW Chemical and Biological Weapons
CCM Convention on Cluster Munitions
CCW Convention on Certain Conventional
Weapons
CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
COARM EU Council of Ministers Working Group
on Conventional Weapons
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
DFID Department for International Development
DSEi Defence and Security Equipment International
(Trade Exhibition)
DTCT UK/US Defense Trade Cooperation
Treaty
ECO Export Control Organisation (within
the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
EGAD Export Group for Aerospace and Defence
EU European Union
FAC Foreign Affairs Committee
FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FMCT Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
GTRP Global Threat Reduction Programme
ICT Intra-Community Transfer (ICT) Directive
on arms transfers within the EU
ITAR (US) International Traffic in Arms
Regulations
MoD Ministry of Defence
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group
NWFZ Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
OGEL Open General Export Licence
OGTCL Open General Trade Control Licence
OIEL Open Individual Export Licence
OITCL Open Individual Trade Control Licence
OPCW Organisation for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons
OPTs Occupied Palestinian Territories
OSCE Organisation for Security and Co-operation
in Europe
OSJA Overseas Security and Justice Assistance
PMSC Private Maritime and Security Company
PQ Parliamentary Question
PSC Private Security Company
P5 The 5 permanent members of the UN
Security Council
SALW Small Arms and Light Weapons
SIEL Standard Individual Export Licence
SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute
SITCL Standard Individual Trade Control
Licence
SITL Standard Individual Transhipment
Licence
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
UKTI DSO United Kingdom Trade & Investment
Defence & Security Organisation
UKWG United Kingdom Working Group on
Arms
UNROCA United Nations Register of Conventional
Arms
WA Wassenaar Arrangement
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction
WMDFZ Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone
WMS Written Ministerial Statement
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