Forewarned is forearmed
13 September 2012
The new Export Control Act is bound to have a significant impact on defence contracts. Brinley Salzmann reveals how far-reaching these new regulations will be
The British Export Control Act 2002 came into effect fully on Saturday 1 May 2004, more than eight years after the publication of the Scott Report into alleged British defence and dual-use equipment sales to Iraq, before it invaded Kuwait in 1990.
The legislation was framed to address perceived inadequacies in the UK's export control system. It was felt that the...