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Open General Licences
 
The following are all the current UK Open General Export Licences (OGELs). They have been organised under the following headings: Military Goods; Dual Use Goods; Trade Controls; Transhipment; and Other.

If you wish to view the licences online in PDF format click on the download button against the relevant OGEL in the "Licences in Force" or "Select" columns below. Please be sure to have the Acrobat Reader installed on your computer before viewing the licences. Alternatively, if you wish to save the file for later viewing, click with the right mouse-button and follow instructions.

How to apply and register for OGELs
For guidance on how to comply with and register for OGELs, including FAQs, see the Guidance Note on Open General Licences and the Community General Export Authorisation.  For more general information on Licences see A Brief Guide to Controls Administered by ECO.

  LICENCES IN FORCE DATE IN FORCE SELECT
  Military Goods    
* OGEL (Military Goods: UK Forces Deployed in Embargoed Destinations 49.5kb 11 page This is a pdf document 20/10/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: UK Forces Deployed in Non-Embargoed Destinations
Revised 2 December 2005

54.8kb 10 pages This is a pdf document
1/12/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: Access Overseas to Technology, for  Individual Use Only) Revised Version  
Revised 2 December 2005

102kb 9 page This is a pdf document
1/12/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: Exports or Transfers in Support of UK Government Defence Contracts)
Revised 16 December 2005

63.8kb 12 page This is a pdf document

16/12/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: For Demonstration to Governments) 
Revised 2 December 2005

52.1kb 11 page This is a pdf document
1/12/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: Government or NATO End Use) 

57.8kb 13 pageThis is a pdf document

31/01/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: For Exhibition) 

54 kb 8 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: Export After Exhibition or Demonstration)
Revised 16 December 2005

30.9kb 10 pageThis is a pdf document

16/12/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: Export After Repair/ Replacement under Warranty) Revised October 2005

35.12kb 13 pageThis is a pdf document

3/10/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: Export for Repair/Replacement under Warranty)
Revised 2 December 2005

73.4kb 11 pageThis is a pdf document

1/12/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Components)

56.6kb 9 page This is a pdf document

31/01/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Goods: Technology for) Revised October 2005

47.82kb 19 pageThis is a pdf document

3/10/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Military Surplus Vehicles) Revised October 2005

26.30kb 8 page This is a pdf document

3/10/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Historic Military Goods)
Revised 2 December 2005

43.8kb 6 page This is a pdf document

1/12/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Vintage Aircraft)

76.3kb 7 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Objects of Cultural Interest)

This is a link to an OGEL published by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport which covers various cultural items. Its sole interest for ECO is that it deals with certain firearms, arms and armour.

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
  Dual-Use    
* OGEL (Dual Use Items: Oil and Gas Exploration)  NEW September 2005

30.3kb 10 page This is a pdf document

28/09/05 Click to view related document.
* Community General Export Authorisation (CGEA)

11.3kb 2 page This is a pdf document 

26/04/04 Click to view related document.
* CGEA Guidance Note

86.7kb 9 page This is a pdf document

May 2004 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Dual-Use Items: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) [Revised March 2005]    

39.6kb 9 page This is a pdf document

11/03/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL ( Dual-Use Items: Export after Exhibition)

25.4kb 11 pageThis is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Dual-Use Items: Export after Repair/Replacement under Warranty)

50kb 12 pageThis is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Dual-use Items: Export for Repair/Replacement under Warranty)

55.7kb 12 pageThis is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Dual-Use Items:Technology for)

66.8kb 9 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Chemicals)

82.5kb 10 pageThis is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Computers)

51.9kb 8 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Cryptographic Development)

68.2kb 8 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Low Value Shipments)

33.3kb 9 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Turkey)

46.1kb 8 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (X)

52. 9kb 10 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
Trade Controls    
* Open General Trade Control Licence
Revised 2 December 2005

22.5kb 7 page This is a pdf document

1/12/05 Click to view related document.
* Open General Trade Control Licence: Explanatory Diagram   Click to view related document.
  Transhipment    
* Open General Transhipment Licence Revised October 2005

26.58kb 8 page This is a pdf document

3/10/05 Click to view related document.
* Open General Transhipment Licence (Dual-Use Items: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region)

21.4kb 8 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* Open General Transhipment Licence (Postal Packets)

18.9kb 6 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* Open General Transhipment Licence (Sporting Guns) 
Revised October 2005

20.79kb 6 page This is a pdf document

3/10/05 Click to view related document.
  Other    
* OGEL (Iraq), Pre-Export Activity

11.5kb 3 pageThis is a pdf document

14/02/05 Click to view related document.
* OGEL (Accompanied Personal Effects: Sporting Firearms)  

17.0kb 5 page This is a pdf document

01/05/04 Click to view related document.
* Open General Licence to Communicate: Sierra Leone

12.2kb 4 page This is a pdf document

18/08/04 Click to view related document.


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