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Open general transhipment licence (sporting guns)

Licence for the transit of sporting guns through the UK.

Updates to this page

From:
Export Control Joint Unit, Department for Business and Trade, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and Department for International Trade
Published:
30 November 2009
Last updated:
19 January 2024
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  1. Licence amended to remove Burkina Faso, Haiti, Mali, and Niger as permissible destinations.

  2. This open general transhipment licence has been amended to remove Hong Kong as a permitted destination

  3. Schedule 1 amended to include firearms listed under PL9010. Changes to schedule 2: Central African Republic and South Sudan added. Mongolian People's Republic now listed as Mongolia. Serbia and Montenegro listed as separate destinations. Russian Federation now listed as Russia.

  4. Licence amended to add Russia to the list of non-permitted destinations following the EU arms embargo on Russia.

  5. First published.

Documents

Open general transhipment licence (sporting guns)

PDF, 220 KB, 7 pages

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Revoked: Open general transhipment licence (sporting guns) (in force from 4 August 2020)

PDF, 289 KB, 7 pages

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Details

This open general transhipment licence (OGTL) allows, subject to certain conditions, the transit of sporting guns through the UK.

Revoked licence

The revoked licence is available in the documents section.

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