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Committee examines arms export controls: Initial review

7 January 2021

The Committees on Arms Export Controls questions ADS for its inquiry into Arms export controls: Initial review

Witness

Tuesday 12 January 2021, virtual meeting

At 10.00am

  • Paul Everitt, Chief Executive, ADS

Topics to be covered at the session include:

  • Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2019;
  • The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the licencing system;
  • The work undertaken by the Department for International Trade and the Export Control Joint Unit as a result of the Appeal Court judgment in June 2019; and
  • Consequences of Brexit for arms export controls, including potential deviation from the existing EU-based ‘Consolidated Criteria’ rules and the implications of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

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