{"id":1306,"date":"2026-08-03T04:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2026-08-03T04:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:32:07","slug":"united-kingdom-two-fines-for-military-export-control-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/08\/03\/united-kingdom-two-fines-for-military-export-control-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; two fines for military export control breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 27 July, the UK&#8217;s HM Revenue and Customs issued a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/notice-to-exporters-202616-compound-settlement-for-breaches-of-export-control\/notice-to-exporters-202616-compound-settlement-for-breaches-of-export-control\">Notice to Exporters<\/a>&#8221; relating to two companies fined \u00a3216,530.30 and \u00a320,889.15 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies were not named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conduct was not described in any detail and only said to &#8220;relate to unlicensed exports of military-listed goods and related activity prohibited by The Export Control Order 2008 and contrary to The Customs and Excise Management Act 1979&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The details of why and how these companies were able to secure a resolution via a compound penalty were also not provided, although the Notice says in general terms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Compound settlements may be offered where an exporter has:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>voluntarily told HMRC about sanctions or export control breaches, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>committed a breach that was inadvertent or due to weaknesses in internal controls&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 July, the UK&#8217;s HM Revenue and Customs issued a &#8220;Notice to Exporters&#8221; relating to two companies fined \u00a3216,530.30 and \u00a320,889.15 respectively. The companies were not named. The conduct was not described in any detail and only said to &#8220;relate to unlicensed exports of military-listed goods and related activity prohibited by The Export Control &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/08\/03\/united-kingdom-two-fines-for-military-export-control-breaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; two fines for military export control breaches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,2],"tags":[14,12,15,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-export-controls","tag-fine","tag-military-goods","tag-united-kingdom"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}