2022 UK Export Control Changes: Are you ready?

Please like, subscribe and share this video Visit Customs Manager.org for more details. On 8 December 2021, the UK presented a package of measures to update the UK’s export control regime. Licence applications will be assessed against new military end-use criteria and more. I welcome you to another video by Customs Manager. In this channel, we post about Customs and Global Trade matters, import, export, transit, customs special procedures, free trade agreements and export controls. If you like this kind of stuff, we’d love you to subscribe, like and share so more people get to join our discussion and info update. Taken together, these changes are a step in the right direction to modernize the UK’s export controls. To recall, the export control law of the UK, at least as regards the dual-use part, is currently frozen in time. The dual-use law of the EU, signed in 2009, has been retained by the UK, however, the latest amendment, has not. All innovations that the EU introduced in 2021 are not applicable in the UK (except for Northern Ireland). Nevertheless, these amendments, scheduled for 2022, can strengthen the UK’s ability to prevent exports that might be used directly or indirectly to facilitate human rights violations in all destinations subject to military end-use controls. The question, of course, remains what happens to all those human rights abuses where there is no military end-use control and UK dual-use and military items continue to be exported… There is still time for more modernisation….