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Licence Decision Making - The Consolidated Criteria
The Criteria set out the basis on which the Government assesses licence applications and include consideration of whether the proposed export would:
- contravene the UK's international commitments
- be used for internal repression
- provoke or prolong armed conflicts or aggravate existing tensions in the destination country
- be used aggressively against another country
- adversely affect the national security of the UK or allies
- be diverted re-exported under undesirable conditions
- seriously undermine the economy
- seriously hamper the sustainable development of the recipient country
What are the Consolidated Criteria?
View the full text of the House of Commons statement made in October 2000 which provides the detail of the criteria:
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The origins of the Consolidated Criteria
| July 1997 | Foreign Secretary announces UK’s national criteria |
| 8 June 1998 | EU adopts Code of Conduct on Arms Exports |
| 26 October 2000 | EU and National Criteria consolidated into one set of criteria |
Export Control Organisation
Updated: June 2008
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