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On 25 October 2013, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) issued Notice to Exporters 2013/27: Egypt – results of the review of licences which indicated that the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has carried out a fuller assessment (see Background below) of conditions prevailing in Egypt and the Business Secretary, on the advice of the Foreign Secretary, has agreed to modify the way the suspension of licences is applied. In the future the Export Control Organisation (ECO) will not adopt a blanket approach to the Egyptian Army, Air Force and Internal Security Forces or Ministry of the Interior but consider each extant licence and new licence application on its merits.
In reviewing the current suspensions ECO has determined that 24 licences will have the suspension lifted because ECO does not judge the goods might be used for internal repression, 7 will be revoked as there is a clear risk that the goods might be used for internal repression. The balance of 16 will remain suspended because the goods might be used for internal repression. All exporters who might be affected have been notified. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will take action where necessary to ensure enforcement of the remaining suspensions. Background: Notice to Exporters (NTE) 2013/23 announced the suspension of export licenses for Egypt for any equipment which might be used for internal repression. As a precautionary measure ECO applied this suspension to all extant licences and new licence applications for the Egyptian Army, Air Force and Internal Security Forces or Ministry of the Interior. NTE 2013/24 announced that, following a preliminary review, ECO had suspended 48 (revised to 47) extant licences for Egypt and that no new applications for licences to the Egyptian Army, Air Force and Internal Security Forces or Ministry of the Interior would be considered. |
UK will not to apply blanket approach to export licences to Egypt
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