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 26 July 2008
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SIEL applications: From 1 July 2006 ECO needs missing information within 10 days

On nearly half - 48% - of the Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) applications received from exporters, the Export Control Organisation has to ask for more information to support the application, ranging from technical queries, missing or incomplete End User Undertakings (EUUs), to purchase orders or contracts and clarifying consignee/end user(s) details. 

When this happens we ask exporters to send us the missing material.  A number of them respond but a larger number do not.

The effect of this is that we waste an awful lot of time checking on the exporters who do not provide enough information to the detriment of those who do. The chasing process obviously reduces the amount of time that we can spend on processing those applications which have their full complement of required information.

With effect from 1 July 2006 we will try and sort out this unsatisfactory state of affairs by changing our procedures to the following:

­We will send out just one letter requesting the additional information that we need in order to progress a SIEL application and warning that, if the information requested is not received within 10 working days, we will take the case off our database without further notice.  No further notice will be given before the case is removed.

­Those exporters who have their case removed from the database will not have this reopened once the 10 working day deadline has passed, unless there are exceptional reasons for doing so.  These will be decided on a case-by-case basis. 

Exporters will, of course, be able to reapply once they are in possession of all the required documentation.
 
By doing this we hope to reduce the amount of time the ECO spends chasing exporters for additional information.  In the past we have accepted companies' assurances that the information would be with us in due course and have put the application on hold.  However this will no longer be acceptable.

The companies concerned might consider reviewing their licence application procedures.  Some applications may need to be submitted only when all the supporting documentation has been received by the exporter, rather than the it being sent in first and the necessary documentation (for example, an EUU) at a later date.

For further details of strategic export controls please contact

ECO Helpline
Department of Trade and Industry
Kingsgate House
66-74 Victoria Street
London SW1E 6SW

Fax    020 7215 0531
email  eco.help@dti.gsi.gov.uk

Up to date information on export controls is also available on ECO's website http://www.dti.gov.uk/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/index.html

This notice is for information purposes only and has no force in law. Please note that where legal advice is required exporters should make their own arrangements.

Export Control Organisation
Department of Trade and Industry
June 2006

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