Fewer than 2% refused: UK publishes export licensing stats for fourth quarter 2022
The UK’s Export Control Joint Unit (‘ECJU’) has said, in a briefing on ‘Strategic export controls commentary: 1 October to 31 December 2021’, that between those dates, ‘there were a total of 2,987 licensing decisions for Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs), down 0.7% from 3,007 in the previous quarter.’
It said that, ‘Of these standard licensing decisions, 2,939 (98.4%) were issued, 48 (1.6%) were refused, and no licences were revoked.’
Meanwhile: ‘Licensing decisions for Open Individual Export Licences (OIELs) were down by 27 compared with the previous quarter, from 68 to 41.
‘Of these open licensing decisions, 40 (97.6%) were issued, 1 (2.4%) was rejected, and no licences were revoked.
‘Between 1 October and 31 December 2021, 55% of SIELs were processed to first outcome within 20 working days, and 36% of OIELs were processed to first outcome within 60 working days.’
ECJU noted: ‘Export and trade control licences give permission for certain strategic exports to be made from the UK to another destination, and for overseas trade in strategic goods. The actual number and value of transactions made under the licences is likely to be less than the total made available under the licences issued. This is because some licences will not be used to make all of the exports authorised and others will not be used at all.’
