UK ECO amends nine open licences

The UK’s Export Control Organisation (‘ECO’) has updated or amended nine open general export licences (‘OGELs’) to reflect amendments to the EU’s dual-use export control list. The changes to Annex 1 to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009, which came into force on 26 November, bring the EU’s dual-use export control list into line with changes agreed in 2016 with international non-proliferation regimes, in particular the Wassenaar Arrangement. The revised OGELs came into force on 29 November.

The amended or updated OGELs can be found here:

• export after exhibition: dual-use items
• export after repair/replacement under warranty: dual-use items
• export for repair/replacement under warranty: dual-use items
• dual-use items: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• low value shipments
• oil and gas exploration: dual-use items
• technology for dual-use items
• Turkey
• cryptographic development

Notice to Exporters 2017/27 can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notice-to-exporters-201727-nine-open-licences-amended

The 2017 update on the EU control list of dual-use items can be found here:

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017/october/tradoc_156134.pdf