Export controls and licensing

Services

End-user undertaking (EUU) form

End-user undertaking form which must be completed to comply with standard individual export licence (SIEL) and standard individual trade control licence (SITCL) terms and conditions.
Stockist undertaking (SU) form

Form which must be completed to meet standard individual export licence (SIEL) or standard individual trade control licence (SITCL) terms and conditions.
Open individual export licence (OIEL) undertaking template

End-user undertaking form which must be completed to comply with OIEL terms and conditions.
Apply to ECJU for a licence to provide technical assistance

Use this form to apply for a licence from the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) to provide technical assistance or support.
Waste recovery sites: apply for a pre-consent certificate

If you run a waste recovery site with a permit in England and regularly receive shipments of the same waste, you may benefit from having a 'pre-consent' certificate.

Certify an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 7 November 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Apply for an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 7 November 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Get an export health certificate
- Detailed guide
- 5 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
Consolidated list of strategic military and dual-use items that require export authorisation
- Guidance
- 3 April 2024
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for Business and Trade
UK strategic export controls
- Detailed guide
- 21 November 2023
- Export Control Joint Unit, Closed organisation: Department for International Trade, and Department for Business and Trade

UK policy on arms export licences to Israel: Foreign Secretary's statement
- 2 September 2024
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- Oral statement
UK suspends around 30 arms export licences to Israel for use in Gaza over International Humanitarian Law concerns
- 2 September 2024
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
SI entrepreneurs join UK Pacific Women Export Leadership workshop
- 24 January 2024
- World news story
UK and Oklahoma hold inaugural Working Group meeting
- 25 October 2023
- Closed organisation: Department for International Trade and Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
UK music execs hail benefits of UK-New Zealand trade deal 
- 16 April 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for International Trade
- News story

Strategic export controls: licensing statistics: 1 April to 30 June 2024
- 12 December 2024
- Department for Business and Trade and Export Control Joint Unit
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics: 1 January to 31 March 2024
- 12 December 2024
- Department for Business and Trade and Export Control Joint Unit
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics: 1 January to 31 March 2023
- 13 June 2024
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for Business and Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics: 1 October to 31 December 2023
- 13 June 2024
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for Business and Trade
- Official statistics
Strategic export controls: licensing statistics: 1 July to 30 September 2023
- 13 June 2024
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for Business and Trade
- Official statistics

Summary of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) process, decision and the factors taken into account
- 2 September 2024
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- Policy paper
Pre-licensing register of arms brokers: call for evidence
- 31 July 2015
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Export Control Joint Unit
- Call for evidence outcome
2010 to 2015 government policy: export controls
- 8 May 2015
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Closed organisation: Department for International Development, Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change, Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Ministry of Defence
- Policy paper

UK strategic export controls annual report 2023
- 17 December 2024
- Department for Business and Trade and Export Control Joint Unit
- Corporate report
Export control licensing management information for Israel
- 10 December 2024
- Export Control Joint Unit and Department for Business and Trade
- Transparency
UK strategic export controls annual report 2022
- 19 July 2023
- Department for Business and Trade and Export Control Joint Unit
- Corporate report
CAEC report on UK strategic export controls: government response
- 9 January 2023
- Export Control Joint Unit, Department for Business and Trade, Ministry of Defence, Closed organisation: Department for International Trade, and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- Corporate report
UK strategic export controls annual report 2021
- 21 July 2022
- Export Control Joint Unit and Closed organisation: Department for International Trade
- Corporate report