Following amendment of the Export Control Order 2008, on 30th June the Department of International Trade published an updated list of ‘controlled’ military and dual-use items that require an export licence. The Consolidated List includes the –
On 30th June, the Department of International Trade published Notice to Exporters 2019/10. It reports that the Export Control Order 2008 has been amended and the consolidated list of strategic military and dual-use items that require export authorisation has been updated accordingly. A new amending order implements EU Directive 2019/514, making changes to the list of defence-related products corresponding to changes made to the European Common Military List (CML) that was previously updated following changes agreed in the Wassenaar Arrangement (an international export control regime). It also removes Eritrea from the list of countries at Part 2 Schedule 4, which lists countries and destinations embargoed and subject to transit control for military goods, and revokes provisions that provided for offences connected to breaches of UN and EU sanctions on Eritrea.
On 27 June, CFATF published an article saying that, as a result of Trinidad and Tobago’s progress in strengthening its framework to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing since the 2015 mutual evaluation, the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) has re-rated the country on 18 of the 40 Recommendations. Trinidad and Tobago has been in an enhanced follow-up process. A Follow-Up Report analyses Trinidad and Tobago’s progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in the Mutual Evaluation Report. The article lists the 18 Recommendations that have been re-rated. However, it remains in enhanced follow-up.
The FATF-style regional body, the Caribbean FATF on 12 June published news of the outcomes of its recent Plenary. It discussed the progress that Trinidad and Tobago made since the adoption of its MER in 2015, with the Plenary agreeing to re-rate Trinidad and Tobago on 18 FATF Recommendations. There were updates on the ongoing mutual evaluation status of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, Venezuela and St. Lucia. There were agreed amendments to the 4th Round Mutual Evaluation process.
https://www.cfatf-gafic.org/home/cfatf-news/563-outcomes-of-the-cfatf-may-2019-plenary-meeting
In the light of the success of the Chernobyl TV series, Rferl published an interesting infographic on 15 June.
https://www.rferl.org/a/soviet-nuclear-power-plants/29999381.html
On 28 June, Dentons published its Taking Security Guide which offers a clear, practical Q&A style overview of the requirements and regulations on taking security in more than 30 countries across the globe. This Guide is intended to be an overview only and it does not serve as exhaustive advice on taking security in the jurisdictions covered.
In its 30 June edition, the Taipei Times reported that, following an assessment by members of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), the group has promoted Taiwan from “enhanced follow-up” to “regular follow-up,” indicating the lowest risk of money laundering, the group said in a report. Taiwan made it onto the “regular follow-up” list after achieving “substantial” marks on 7 of 11 factors used to measure a nation’s effectiveness in fighting money laundering. A final report on the third-round peer review is to be presented for membership approval at the APG annual meeting in Canberra on August. Taiwan was placed on the “regular follow-up” list in 2007 and was demoted to the “enhanced follow-up” list by the APG in 2011, before being placed on the “transitional follow-up list” in 2014. It was removed from the transitional list in July 2017, pending the results of the current evaluation.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/06/30/2003717843
On 28 June, the UN advised that 13 further entities had been removed from the lisy of those subject to sanctions concerning Iraq.
In the UK, the NAO has published a report saying that the challenges in tackling serious and organised crime are formidable. There are more than 4,500 identified UK organised crime groups operating in changing and often unpredictable ways. The government estimated that the annual social and economic cost of serious and organised crime was £37 billion in 2015-16. The government published its serious and organised crime strategy in 2013 and revised it in 2018. The NAO examined the government’s strategic response to serious and organised crime, and the extent that the enablers to successful implementation of the 2018 strategy have been put in place. We examined the work of the Home Office and the NCA, who together oversee and co-ordinate the government’s response. The report does not look in detail at how other government bodies are set up to contribute. It says that serious and organised crime is evolving at a rapid rate, as criminal networks identify new vulnerabilities and adapt their activity in response to law enforcement action and the opportunities offered by new technology. It says that there remain some significant and avoidable shortcomings that may prevent government and its partners from meeting its aim to “rid our society of the harms of serious and organised crime”.
EU Regulation 2019/1103/EU has followed the lead of the UN and removed 17 entities from its Iraq sanctions lists.
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