Export of Goods (Control) Order 1987
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1987/2070 |
| Year | 1987 |
1987 No. 2070
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1987
Made 26th November 1987
Coming into force 1st January 1988
The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 1 of the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 19391and now vested in him2, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–
“Commissioners” means the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;
“country” includes territory;
“goods”, unless otherwise specified, means both used and unused goods;
“hovercraft” has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Hovercraft Act 19683;
“international import certificate” means a certificate issued by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order or any Order revoked by this Order certifying that an importer has undertaken with the Secretary of State to import into the United Kingdom the goods specified in the certificate or to deal with them in such other manner as is authorised by a licence granted under this Order;
“importation” and “exportation” in relation to a ship or aircraft includes the taking into or out of the United Kingdom of the ship or aircraft notwithstanding that the ship or aircraft is conveying goods or passengers, and whether or not it is moving under its own power; and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
“Member State” means a Member State of the European Communities;
“scheduled goods” means goods of a description specified in Schedule 1 hereto and any reference to such goods being indicated by a letter shall be taken as a reference to the goods being so indicated in Schedule 1 hereto;
“scheduled journey” means one of a series of journeys which are undertaken between the same two places and which together amount to a systematic service operated in such a manner that the benefits thereof are available to members of the public from time to time seeking to take advantage of it;
“ship” includes the hull or part of the hull of a ship;
“software” means one or more programmes fixed in any tangible medium of expression, “programme” means a sequence of instructions to carry out a process in, or convertible into, a form executable by an electronic computer and includes a microprogramme, and “microprogramme” means a sequence of elementary instructions, maintained in a special storage, the execution of which is initiated by the introduction of its reference instruction into an instruction register;
“technological document” means any document containing information relating to the design, production, testing or use of goods or to technologies or processes and “document” includes any record or device by means of which information is recorded or stored;
a prohibition on exportation means a prohibition on exportation from the United Kingdom and shall include a prohibition on shipment as ships' stores;
numerical references in Schedule 1 hereto to British Standards are references to the standards so numbered published by the British Standards Institution in the year indicated after such references with such amendments (if any) thereto as may have been made before the making of this Order;
references in Schedule 1 hereto to percentages of the contents of any goods are references to percentages by weight;
any description of goods in Group A of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto in relation to a Combined Nomenclature heading or sub-heading, other than one covering a whole heading, shall be taken to comprise all goods which would be classified under an entry in the same terms constituting a subheading in the relevant heading in the Combined Nomenclature of the European Economic Community4.
Prohibitions and restrictions on exportation
2. Subject to the provisions of this Order–
(i) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “A” are prohibited to be exported to any destination;
(ii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “T” are prohibited to be exported to any destination except that when in relation to such goods the provisions of Regulation (EEC) 1062/87, as amended5, relating to the use of Community transit documents requiring anything to be done at or before the time of exportation have been complied with, the goods may be exported to a destination in another Member State;
(iii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “E” are prohibited to be exported to any destination except a destination in another Member State;
(iv) scheduled goods consisting of classes of ships indicated by the letter “S” are prohibited to be exported to any destination after delivery or for the purpose of delivery, directly or indirectly, to a person in Afghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;
(v) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “I” are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Iran or Iraq;
(vi) scheduled goods indicated by the letters “E (S)” are prohibited to be exported to any destination except that when in relation to such goods the provisions of Regulation (EEC) 1062/87, as amended, relating to the use of Community transit documents requiring anything to be done at or before the time of exportation have been complied with, the goods may be exported to a destination in another Member State, other than Spain;
(vii) scheduled goods indicated by the letters “E(PS)” are prohibited to be exported to any destination except that when in relation to such goods the provisions of Regulation (EEC) 1062/87, as amended, relating to the use of Community transit documents requiring anything to be done at or before the time of exportation have been complied with, the goods may be exported to a destination in another Member State, other than Portugal or Spain;
(viii) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “L” are prohibited to be exported to any destination in Libya;
(ix) scheduled goods indicated by the letter “Z” are prohibited to be exported to any destination in South Africa or Namibia;
(x) all goods in relation to the export of which from any country an international import certificate has been issued and which have been imported into the United Kingdom are prohibited to be exported to any destination;
(xi) specialised components of any of the apparatus, appliances or equipment falling within a description in Group 1 of Part II of Schedule 1 hereto, whether or not such components are specified in the description, are prohibited to be exported to any destination in South Africa or Namibia;
(xii) goods of a description specified in Group C of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto are prohibited to be exported to any destination in the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;
(xiii) technological documents, other than documents generally available to the public, and other than applications for the grant of patents (or any other forms of protection for inventions) or for the registration of designs, in either case under the law of the United Kingdom or of any other country or under any treaty or international convention, and documents necessary to enable such applications to be filed, or made and pursued, the information contained in which relates to any goods specified in Groups 1 to 3 of Part II of Schedule 1 hereto or to any goods, technologies or processes specified in Group 4 of Part II of Schedule 1 hereto are prohibited to be exported to any destination in any country specified in paragraph (iv) above;
Community steel products
3. The prohibition in article 2 (xii) of this Order shall not apply to any exportation to any destination in the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in accordance with a European Community export licence issued by the competent authority of a Member State in conformity with the provisions of Commission Decision 2873/82/ECSC6or Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2874/827or Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 61/858.
Exceptions
4. Nothing in article 2 of this Order shall be taken to prohibit the exportation of–Licensed exports and permitted ships' stores
(a) any goods under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State, or the shipment of any goods as ships' stores with the permission of the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the port of departure for use on board the ship, provided that all conditions attaching to the said licence or the said permission are complied with;Channel Islands
(b) any goods other than goods of a description included in Group B of Part I of Schedule 1 hereto or in Group 1 of Part II of the said Schedule, to any destination in the Channel Islands;Samples
(c) trade samples of any goods, except goods of a description included in Groups 1 and 2 of Part II of Schedule 1 hereto, if the samples have no saleable value;Aircraft
(i) (d) any aircraft which is being exported after temporary importation into the United Kingdom, provided that there has been no change of ownership or registration since such importation;
(ii) any aircraft engaged on a scheduled journey;Cocoa
(e) cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted, and the following cocoa products namely cocoa paste (in bulk or block) whether or not defatted, cocoa butter (fat and oil) and cocoa powder not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter to any destination if there is produced to the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the place of export the appropriate certificate prescribed for this purpose by the economic and control rules of the International Cocoa Agreement 19869which were adopted by the International...
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