The UK’s Export Control Joint Unit announced on 25 June 2026 (in Notice to Exporters 2026/14) a new consolidated Dual-Use Open General Export Licence merging the existing EU member states Dual-Use OGEL and General Export Authorisation 001 into a single open licence and extending open-licence coverage to five new destinations. For the trade practitioner, the significance of the measure lies not in any loosening of the underlying controls — the control lists, the SPIRE registration requirement, and the open-licence conditions are all unchanged — but in the repackaging of permissions and the widening of the trusted-destination network on the strength of the UK’s own risk assessment rather than that of a multilateral regime. Two features repay close attention: the divergence between the new destinations and membership of the four export-control regimes, which keeps end-use, end-user, and diversion-risk screening firmly in play; and a parallel measure requiring the licence reference to be entered on the Customs Declaration Service for all tangible exports, bringing open-licence exports within HMRC’s enforcement remit.
We recently published an update examining the consolidation, the expanded destinations, and the operational obligations that, for most exporters, are the salient features.
Read the full insight here.