Legalize
Legalize / United Kingdom / Statutory-Instrument

The Export Control Order 2008

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2008-12-15
Last updated 2025-12-16
State In force
Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
Source legislation.gov.uk
PDF Download
articles 1
Reform history JSON API

Movement of Thiopental Sodium to the United States of America

4A
  • (1) Subject to articles 17 and 26, no person shall export a human or veterinary medicinal product containing the active ingredient pancuronium bromide or propofol where—
  • (a) the product is in a form suitable for injection or for preparation of an injection; and
  • (b) paragraph (2) or (3) applies.
  • (2) This paragraph applies where the destination of the product is the United States of America.
  • (3) This paragraph applies where the destination is not the United States of America but the exporter knows that the final destination of the product is the United States of America.

Movement of UK controlled dual-use goods, etc. within the customs territory

WMD purposes end-use control supplementing the dual-use Regulation

Control on transfers within the customs territory supplementing the dual-use Regulation

Transit controls supplementing the dual-use Regulation

Provisions supplementing the torture Regulation

General prohibition

Transfers within the United Kingdom for WMD purposes

Transfers from outside the customs territory for WMD purposes

Transfers by non-electronic means from the United Kingdom for WMD purposes

Exceptions for aircraft

Exceptions for vessels

Exception for firearms – European firearms pass

Exception for firearms – firearm or shot gun certificate or permit

Transit or transhipment exception

Software and technology exceptions

Movement of Libyan bank notes

4B

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Movement of UK controlled dual-use goods, etc. within the customs territory

WMD purposes end-use control supplementing the dual-use Regulation

Control on transfers within the customs territory supplementing the dual-use Regulation

Transit controls supplementing the dual-use Regulation

Provisions supplementing the torture Regulation

General prohibition

Transfers within the United Kingdom for WMD purposes

Transfers from outside the customs territory for WMD purposes

Transfers by non-electronic means from the United Kingdom for WMD purposes

Exceptions for aircraft

Exceptions for vessels

Exception for firearms – European firearms pass

Exception for firearms – firearm or shot gun certificate or permit

Transit or transhipment exception

Software and technology exceptions

Movement of Libyan bank notes and coins

Libya

Movement of certain medicinal products to the United States of America

Sudan

Belarus

Crown application

2A
  • (1) The following articles bind the Crown—
  • (a) article 4 (movement of UK controlled dual-use goods, etc. to certain destinations);
  • (b) article 6 (WMD purposes end-use control supplementing the dual-use Regulation);
  • (c) article 8 (transit controls supplementing the dual-use Regulation);
  • (d) article 42L (export and transfer control in relation to Northern Ireland: dual-use goods, software, and technology); and
  • (e) article 42S (export control in relation to Northern Ireland: leg irons, gang chains, and portable electric shock devices).
  • (2) The Crown is not criminally liable as a result of a contravention of any of those articles.
  • (3) Paragraph (2) does not affect the application of those articles to persons in the public service of the Crown.

Exception for historic military vehicles

14A
  • (1) The prohibition on the export of military goods in article 3 does not apply to the export of a vehicle or component falling within entry ML6 in Schedule 2 provided that the following conditions are met.
  • (2) The conditions are that—
  • (a) the vehicle or component was manufactured more than 50 years before the date of exportation;
  • (b) the exportation is to a destination in Belgium, France or Germany;
  • (c) the exportation is for the purposes of a military re-enactment, commemorative event or recreational activity; and
  • (d) the vehicle or component is to be returned to the United Kingdom within 3 months of the date of exportation.

Exception for firearms – European firearms pass

Exception for firearms – firearm or shot gun certificate or permit

Transit or transhipment exception

Software and technology exceptions

Certificates (European military items)

28A

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Record keeping – general

Registration and record keeping – information security items

Inspection of records

Amendment, suspension and revocation of licences

Licence refusals, etc. and appeals

Certificates: refusals, etc. and appeals

33A

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Misleading applications for licences or certificates

46

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.

This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence. legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.