House of Commons - Scrutiny of arms Exports and Arms Control - Committees on Arms Export Controls

Committees on Arms Export Controls - First Report - Volume II - Memorandum
Scrutiny of arms Exports and Arms Control

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 14 July 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Glossary of Acronyms

Definition of Export Control Organisation licences

2 The Government's "United Kingdom Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2012" (HC 561)

3 The Committees' Report of 2012-13 (HC 205)

The Committees' Report (HC 205) and the Government's Response (Cm8707)

4 The Committees' questions on the Government's quarterly information on arms export licences

5 Arms export control legislation and procedures

Extra-territoriality

"Brass Plate" companies

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

Use of UK subsidiaries to export arms

The Consolidated Criteria and EU Council Common Position

6 Organisational and operational issues

Export Control Organisation (ECO)

Remit, responsibilities, structure and staffing

Charging for processing arms export licences

Transparency of arms export licensing

Powers to create new categories of export licences

Priority Markets for UK arms exports

Trade exhibitions

Compound penalties

Crown Dependencies

Combating bribery and corruption

International Development

7 Arms Exports Agreements

UK/US Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty

US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

UK-France Defence and Security Co-operation Treaty

The Intra-Community Transfer (ICT) Directive on arms transfers within the EU

8 Arms Control Agreements

Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

EU Council Common Position

Cluster Munitions

Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)

The Wassenaar Arrangement

The UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA)

The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)

The Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT)

The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)

The G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction

The Nuclear Suppliers Group

The Nuclear Security Summit

The Australia Group

The Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS)

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Sub-strategic and tactical nuclear weapons

A Middle-East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone

The National Counter-Proliferation Strategy

9 Arms export control policies

Arms exports and human rights

Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) Human Rights Guidance

Surveillance technology and equipment

Cryptographic equipment, software, technology and components

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) "Drones"

Arms exports to counter piracy

The licensing of security services

Arms exports and internal repression

The Government's Arab Spring arms export policy review

Arms export licence revocations

Arms export licence suspensions

Exports of gifted equipment

10 Arms exports to Countries of concern

Extant arms export licences to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Countries of Human Rights concern worldwide, and to the Additional Countries of concern to the Committees

Extant arms export licences to certain individual countries within the FCO's list of 28 Countries of Human Rights concern

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Conventional arms exports and gifted equipment

Dual-use chemicals

Extant arms export licences to the 5 Additional Countries of concern to the Committees

11 Arms exports to authoritarian regimes and Countries of concern worldwide

Annex 1: The Committees' quarterly licence questions and the Government's answers (2012 Q4, 2013 Q1, Q2 and Q3)

The Committees' 2012 Quarter 4 (October - December) questions and the Government's answers

The Committees' 2013 Quarter 1 (January - March) questions and the Government's answers

The Committees' 2013 Quarter 2 (April - June) questions and the Government's answers

The Committees' 2013 Quarter 3 (July - September) questions and the Government's answers

Annex 2: The Committees' questions on the Government's Strategic Export Controls Annual Report (HC 561) published in July 2013 and the Government's answers

Annex 3: The Committees' letters to and from Ministers

Annex 4: EU Council Common Position (2008/944/CFSP)

Annex 5: The UK Consolidated Criteria (2000-2014)

Annex 6: The revised UK Consolidated Criteria (2014)

Annex 7: Extra-territoriality (Offences)

Annex 8: UK national report to the 2014 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Commission

Annex 9: Extant arms export licences to Countries of concern

The FCO's Countries of Human Rights concern—extant licences

Countries of concern to the Committees—extant licences

Annex 10: The text of the Arms Trade Treaty

Annex 11: Arms export licence revocations

Annex 12: Companies registered with Export Control Organisation to use the Open General Trade Control Licence (Maritime Anti-Piracy)

Annex 13: Selected arms export licence approvals of arms or components of arms which might be used to facilitate internal repression in the period 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013

Annex 14: Export licences to Argentina in the period 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013

Annex 15: National Counter Proliferation Strategy 2012-2015

Annex 16: Department Minutes for the gifting of equipment to the Syrian Opposition May 2013-June 2014

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Prepared 23 July 2014