Contents
Terms of Reference
Glossary of Acronyms
Definition of Export Control Organisation
licences
Report
Introduction
The Government's "United Kingdom Strategic
Export Controls Annual Report 2013" (HC 480)
The Committees' Report of 2013-14 (HC 186)
The Committees' Report (HC 186) and the
Government's Response (Cm8935)
The Committees' questions on the Government's
quarterly information on arms export licences
Arms export control legislation and procedures
"Brass Plate" companies
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
Use of UK subsidiaries to export arms
The Consolidated Criteria and EU Council
Common Position
Organisational and operational issues
Export Control Organisation (ECO) - Remit,
responsibilities, structure and staffing
Charging for processing arms export licences
Performance
Export Control Organisation's computer system
(SPIRE)
Export Control Organisation's website
Transparency of arms export licensing
Powers to create new categories of export
licences
Priority Markets for UK arms exports
Trade exhibitions
Enforcement
Compound penalties
Crown Dependencies and Dependent Territories
Combating bribery and corruption
International Development
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
Arms Control Agreements
EU Council Common Position
Cluster Munitions
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)
Landmines
Barrel bombs
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 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)
Treaty
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
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
Sniper rifles
Tasers
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
Transfers from Standard Individual Export
Licences to Open Individual Export Licences
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 and Territories
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
Afghanistan
China
Iran
Iraq
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Libya
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Sri Lanka
Syria - Conventional arms exports and gifted
equipment
Syria - Dual-use chemical exports
Syria - Continuing use of chemical weapons
Uzbekistan
Yemen
Extant arms exports licences to the 7 Additional
Countries and Territories of concern to the Committees
Argentina
Bahrain
Egypt
Hong Kong
Qatar
Tunisia
Ukraine
Arms exports to authoritarian regimes and
Countries of concern worldwide
Formal Minutes
List of Reports from the Committees during
the current Parliament
Volume II: Memorandum from the Chairman of the Committees
(published on the Committees' website:www.parliament.uk/caeccomm)
Glossary of Acronyms
Definition of Export Control Organisation licences
1 Introduction
2 The Government's "United Kingdom Strategic
Export Controls Annual Report 2013" (HC 480)
3 The Committees' Report of 2013-14 (HC 186)
The Committees' Report (HC 186) and the Government's
Response (Cm8935)
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
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
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
Performance
Export Control Organisation's computer system (SPIRE)
Export Control Organisation's website
Transparency of arms export licensing
Powers to create new categories of export licences
Priority Markets for UK arms exports
Trade exhibitions
Enforcement
Compound penalties
Crown Dependencies and Dependent Territories
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)
Landmines
Barrel bombs
The Wassenaar Arrangement
The UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA)
The UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
(CCW)
The Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT)
The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
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
Sniper rifles
Tasers
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
Transfers from Standard Individual Export Licences
to Open Individual Export Licences
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 and Territories 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
Afghanistan
China
Iran
Iraq
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Libya
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Sri Lanka
Syria
Uzbekistan
Yemen
Extant arms export licences to the 7 Additional Countries
and Territories of concern to the Committees
Argentina
Bahrain
Egypt
Hong Kong
Qatar
Tunisia
Ukraine
11 Arms exports to authoritarian regimes and Countries
of concern worldwide
Annex 1: The Committees' quarterly licence questions
and the Government's answers (2013 Q4, 2014 Q1 and 2014 Q2)
The Committees' 2013 Quarter 4 (October - December)
questions and the Government's answers
The Committees' 2014 Quarter 1 (January - March)
questions and the Government's answers
The Committees' 2014 Quarter 2 (April - June) questions
and the Government's answers
Annex 2: The Committees' questions on the Government's
Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2013 (HC 480) published
in July 2014 and the Government's answers
Annex 3: The Committees' letters to and from Ministers
Annex 4: Extra-territoriality (Offences)
Annex 5: The UK Consolidated Criteria (2000-2014)
Annex 6: The revised UK Consolidated Criteria (2014)
Annex 7: EU Council Common Position (2008/944/CFSP)
Annex 8: The text of the Arms Trade Treaty
Annex 9: National Counter Proliferation Strategy
2012-2015
Annex 10: Companies registered with Export Control
Organisation to use the Open General Trade Control Licence (Maritime
Anti-Piracy)
Annex 11: Arms export licence revocations
Annex 12: Department Minutes for the gifting of equipment
July 2014-February 2015
Annex 13: Extant arms export licences to Countries
of concern
The FCO's Countries of Human Rights concern—extant
licences
Countries and Territories of concern to the Committees—extant
licences
Annex 14: Selected arms export licence approvals
of arms or components of arms which might be used to facilitate
internal repression in the period 1 October 2013 to June
2014
Annex 15: Export licences to Argentina in the period
1 October 2012 to June 2014
Volume III
(published on the Committees' website:www.parliament.uk/caeccomm)
Oral evidence
Monday 10 November
2014
| Roy Isbister, 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
| Ev w1 |
| Paul Everitt, Chief Executive, ADS Group, David Wilson, Export Compliance, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services and Chairman of EGAD, Sue Tooze, Deputy Head of Trade Controls, Compliance and Assurance, BAE Systems, and Bernadette Peers, Compliance Manager, Strategic Shipping Company Ltd
| Ev w16 |
Monday 1 December
2014
| Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Edward Bell, Head and Chris Chew, Head of Policy, Export Control Organisation, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
| Ev w27 |
| Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Jessica Hand, Head, Arms Export Policy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Peter Jones, Director, Defence and International Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
| Ev w42 |
Written evidence
1 Export Group for Aerospace and Defence (AEC0001)
2 Paul Holtom and Ioannis Chapsos (AEC0003)
3 Campaign Against Arms Trade (AEC0004)
4 Privacy International (AEC0005)
5 UK Working Group on Arms (AEC0006)
6 Campaign Against Arms Trade (AEC0007)
7 Export Group for Aerospace and Defence (AEC0009)
Ministerial correspondence
| Date | From |
To | Subject |
Evidence reference |
| 21/07/2014 | Chairman | Philip Hammond
| Russia - suspensions and revocations | Ev w164
|
| 23/07/2014 | Chairman | David Cameron
| Russia - arms export policy | Ev w165
|
| 23/07/2014 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Russia - extant arms exports | Ev w166
|
| 24/07/2014 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | Ukraine - arms export policy
| Ev w167 |
| 07/08/2014 | Chairman | Philip Hammond
| CAEC questions on the Government's Annual Report on Strategic Exports
| Ev w167 |
| 07/08/2014 | Chairman | Philip Hammond
| Israel - arms exports | Ev w175
|
| 14/08/2014 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Israel - extant arms exports | Ev w175
|
| 19/08/2014 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | Israel - arms exports
| Ev w176 |
| 19/08/2014 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | Russia - extant arms exports and arms exports policy
| Ev w178 |
| 20/08/2014 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | Russia - arms export policy
| Ev w181 |
02/09/2014
| Chairman
| Philip Hammond
| CAEC questions on the Government's Annual Report on Strategic Exports
| Ev w182
|
| 03/09/2014 | Vince Cable |
Chairman | Israel -extant arms exports
| Ev w183 |
| 03/09/2014 | Chairman | Philip Hammond
| Russia - compliance with INF Treaty | Ev w183
|
| 10/09/2014 | Vince Cable |
Chairman | Russia - end-users of UK arms exports
| Ev w184 |
10/09/2014
| Philip Hammond
| Chairman
| CAEC questions on the Government's Annual Report on Strategic Exports
| Ev w185
|
| 30/09/2014 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | Russia - compliance with INF Treaty
| Ev w185 |
06/10/2014
| Philip Hammond
| Chairman
| CAEC questions on the Government's Annual Report on Strategic Exports
| Ev w186
|
| 21/10/2014 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Hong Kong - arms exports | Ev w209
|
| 28/10/2014 | Vince Cable |
Chairman | Hong Kong - arms exports
| Ev w210 |
| 13/11/2014 | Tobias Ellwood |
Chairman | Russia - arms exports
| Ev w211 |
13/11/2014
| Tobias Ellwood
| Ann McKechin
| The Wassenaar Arrangement and the EU Dual-Use Regulation
| Ev w213
|
| 13/11/2014 | Tobias Ellwood |
Jeremy Corbyn | Sri Lanka - arms exports policy
| Ev w214 |
| 17/11/2014 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Extant arms export licences to Countries of Concern
| Ev w215 |
| 17/11/2014 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Spyware export controls | Ev w216
|
| 25/11/2014 | Vince Cable |
Chairman | Egypt - arms exports policy
| Ev w217 |
| 25/11/2014 | Chairman | Philip Hammond
| Syria - chlorine chemical weapons | Ev w218
|
02/12/2014
| Chairman
| Vince Cable
| Revocations reporting by the Export Control Organisation, Uniformity of arms export licensing between countries, The Transparency Initiative, Pre-licence registration of arms brokers, and Extra-territoriality
| Ev w218
|
| 10/12/2014 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | Syria - chlorine chemical weapons
| Ev w219 |
15/12/2014
| Vince Cable
| Chairman
| Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), Maritime Anti-Piracy, EU Torture Regulation, Reporting on revocations, Uniformity in export licensing systems, Transparency Initiative, pre-licence registration of arms brokers, Extra-territoriality, Surveillance technology, Israel licences and Extant arms export licences to Countries of Concern
| Ev w220
|
| 06/01/2015 | Chairman | Philip Hammond
| Ukraine - arms exports | Ev w433
|
| 06/01/2015 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Arms export revocations since 7 June 2014 |
Ev w433 |
| 08/01/2015 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| EU User's Guide | Ev w433 |
| 12/01/2015 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Qatar - extant arms exports | Ev w434
|
| 16/01/2015 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | EU User's Guide |
Ev w434 |
| 19/01/2015 | Chairman | Vince Cable
| Duration of OIELs | Ev w434
|
21/01/2015
| Vince Cable
| Chairman
| Arms export licence revocations since 7 June 2014, and Qatar - extant arms exports
| Ev w435
|
| 27/01/2015 | Philip Hammond |
Chairman | Ukraine - arms exports
| Ev w458 |
| 04/02/2015 | Vince Cable |
Chairman | Duration of OIELs |
Ev w459 |
| 04/02/2015 | Tobias Ellwood |
Chairman | Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference
| Ev w459 |
| 19/02/2015 | Desmond Swayne |
Chairman | DFID - Criterion 8 update
| Ev w459 |
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