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Temporary Export Licences (Standard Individual Export Licences)

Conditions of use for Standard Individual Export Licences issued to companies who are temporarily exporting goods for demonstration, exhibition, or repair and maintenance

Conditions on an individual licence for temporary export require that the goods must be returned to the UK within the period of the expiry date of the licence and that you must notify in writing the Licence Reception Unit of the Export Control Organisation (ECO).

The licence must be returned to the Licence Reception Unit on its expiry even if not ‘exhausted’ and, if the licence is not used, a covering letter should also be sent stating its non-use.

Goods exported on a temporary licence must not be disposed of abroad, unless the ECO has given specific permission for this to happen. Nor should you allow the goods to remain abroad beyond the expiry date without first contacting the ECO. You should not assume that such permission would necessarily be granted. Such cases are considered on a case by case basis against the Consolidated National and EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports and often have to be referred to our advisers in other Government Departments before a decision is reached.

Failure to comply with any condition attached to a temporary licence may lead to forfeiture of the goods or to prosecution by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
 
Licence Reception
Export Control Organisation
3rd Floor, Kingsgate House
66-74 Victoria Street  
London SW1E 6SW
Fax: 020 7215 4485

January 2005