Export Controls

(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answers of 16 April to Question 134891 and Question 134889, which office in his Department assigns application for licences to the Export Control Joint Unit as (a) red, (b) grey and (c) green.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 27th April 2018

All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and are processed by the Export Control Joint Unit.

The categories represent an overview of the complexity of the country from an export licensing perspective and are used at the initial processing stage to allow for more efficient and effective processing.

The assessment process for considering licence applications is the same, regardless of whether they are sifted as red, grey or green.

The details of which countries are categorised as either red, grey or green are confidential.

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