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Notices to Exporters

Read updates on all current Export Control Organisation matters including legislative changes, licence amendments, sanctions and embargoes and much more. From this page you can also select to subscribe to the ECO mailing list and receive these notices electronically.

What are the ECO's "Notices to Exporters"?

"Notices to Exporters" is an email notification service provided by the Export Control Organisation. Via this service you will be automatically emailed any new Notices when they are issued by us. Find out more about how to subscribe.

The notices provide updates on legislation and sanctions, notification of Open General Licence revocations and other export control related issues. We issue approximately 30 notices annually about legislative updates and other changes.

Current Notices

This provides a listing of all current published Notices in grouped by subject and then  in date order (latest first).

Sanctions

 Title of Notice Date Issued
 Notice to Exporters 2010/11 - Lifting of EU Sanctions on Uzbekistan (DOC, 461 Kb)  18 March 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2010/07 - Extension of EU Sanctions on Republic of Guinea (DOC, 464 Kb)  23 February 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2010/06 - EU Sanctions on Iran (DOC, 462 Kb)  5 February 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2010/04 - EU Sanctions on Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DOC, 460 Kb)  27 January 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2009/25 - EU Sanctions on Republic of Guinea (DOC, 473 Kb)  11 November 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/22 - Iran Sanctions - Frequently Asked Questions (DOC, 500 Kb)  12 October 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/18 - EU Sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – EU Commission Regulation amendment of 29th July 2009 (DOC, 459 Kb)  7 August 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/10 - EU Sanctions on Uzbekistan (DOC, 44 Kb)  14 May 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/01 - UN Sanctions on Rwanda lifted (DOC, 44 Kb)  8 January 2009

 

Legislation Updates

 Title of Notice Date Issued
 Notice to Exporters 2010/03 - Changes to controls on export of UK dual-use goods (DOC, 455 Kb)  26 January 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2009/27 - The Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill (DOC, 475 Kb)  27 November 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/19 - Recast of Council Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 - revised OGELs and new dual-use brokering guidance (DOC, 491 Kb)  18 August 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/17 - Re-cast of Council Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 (DOC, 175 Kb)  19 June 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/15 - Changes to the Control Lists from Wassenaar and also some National Controls (DOC, 52 Kb)  12 June 2009

 

Licence Amendments

 Title of Notice Date Issued
 Notice to Exporters 2010/01 - Amendments to Open General Licences (DOC, 459 Kb)  13 January 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2009/26 - Amendments to Open General Export Licences following adoption of EU Sanctions on the Republic of Guinea (DOC, 459 Kb)  27 November 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/23 - Amended OGEL issued for Historic Military Vehicles and Artillery Pieces (DOC, 462 Kb)  26 October 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/21 - OGEL (Computers) - Revocation (DOC, 468 Kb)  25 September 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/12 - New OGEL issued for Vintage Military Vehicles (DOC, 46 Kb)  3 June 2009

 

General Customer Notifications

 Title of Notice Date Issued
 Notice to Exporters 2010/10 - Introduction of new End-User Email Advice Service for organisations planning to export to Iran (DOC, 461 Kb)  15 March 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2010/09 - Relaunch of Export Control Organisation's webpages (DOC, 1.3 Mb)  15 March 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2010/05 - Export Control Customer Satisfaction Survey 2010 - Open now for responses (DOC, 468 Kb)  5 February 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2010/02 - Advance Notification about move of Export Control webpages to Businesslink in Spring 2010 (DOC, 472 Kb)  20 January 2010
 Notice to Exporters 2009/28 - Publication of the ECO Dual-Use Study (DOC, 472 Kb)  11 December 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/14 - Launch of the Strategic Export Controls: Reports and Statistics Website (DOC, 51 Kb)  8 June 2009
 Notice to Exporters 2009/06 - Amendments to Open General Licences as result of Export Control Order 2008 (DOC, 83 Kb)  2 April 2009

 

Notification of Prosecutions

You can access relevant Notices with details of export control convictions and prosecutions on our page on Export Control Prosecutions and Press Articles.

 

Compliance and Awareness Newsletters

The ECO also publishes newsletters which update exporters about export control compliance and enforcement issues and advertising the ECO's training and awareness programme. You can download the latest versions here:

 

Iran List

This is a list of entities or organisations in Iran which is made publically available to exporters by the ECO 
It is intended to help you judge which exports might potentially be of concern on End-Use Control grounds, based on previous licensing decisions.

For further details about exporting to Iran, see the published information on Current Arms Embargoes on the  Business Link - Export Control pages.

 

Archived Notices

The ECO periodically archives Notices that are out of date due to subsequent legislative or licence amendments.

You can access copies of any archived Notices either via the UK Government Web Archive provided by the National Archives or by contacting the ECO Helpline (see details of how to Contact the Export Control Organisation).

 

Export Control Organisation

Updated: March 2010