Compliance
UK Export Control Act 2002
Exhibitors whose activities may be impacted by this Act and associated control orders are to ensure they have the necessary licences and mechanisms in place. For further information please see www.berr.gov.uk/europeandtrade/
Impact of the Export Control Act 2002 on Exhibitions in UK and Overseas (pdf)
A. UK Export Control Act 2002
This act covers the exportation of goods, the transfer of technology, the provision of technical assistance overseas and activities connected with trade in controlled goods.
Exhibitors whose activities may be impacted by this Act and associated control orders are to ensure they have the necessary licenses and mechanisms in place. Further information can be found here.
B. Equipment, Services and documentation exhibited or promoted.
1. Equipment, services, documentation and all other forms of visual promotion and display, exhibited or proposed, must comply with UK Law and the UK’s international undertakings, EU/UN Law and EU/UN international undertakings.
2. The following equipment and services are prohibited at DSEi:
a. Restraints specifically designed for restraining human beings, as follows:
i. Leg irons, gang chains, shackles1 and individual cuffs or shackle bracelets except those that are ordinary hand cuffs2
ii. Restraint chairs unless designed for disabled persons
iii. Thumb cuffs and thumbscrews including serrated thumb cuffs.
iv. Electric shock belts3
b. Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an electric shock, including electric-shock batons, electric-shock shield, stun guns and electric shock dart guns4 (including Tasers) and components specifically designed or modified for such purposes.
c. Landmines, anti-personnel mines and anti-material cartridges.
d. All cluster and non-unitary munitions with the exception of those specified at Para 3 below.
3. The only non-unitary munitions permitted to be promoted or displayed at DSEi are those which comply with the provisions of the Oslo Accord. Specifically they must have all of the following characteristics:
a. each munition contains fewer than ten explosive sub-munitions
b. each explosive sub-munition weighs more than four kilograms
c. each explosive sub-munition is designed to detect and engage a single target object
d. each explosive sub-munition is equipped with an electronic self-destruction mechanism
e. each explosive sub-munition is equipped with an electronic self-deactivating feature
All other non-unitary munitions, explosive sub-munitions and explosive bomblets, together with components specifically designed for such cluster munitions5, explosive sub-munitions6 or explosive bomblets7 are prohibited. This exclusion does not, however, apply to conventional munitions which are designed to dispense flares, smoke, pyrotechnics or chaff, electrical or electronic effects or which are designed exclusively for an air defence role.
Definitions:
1. Shackles designed for restraining human beings having an overall dimension including chain when measured from the outer edge of one cuff to the outer edge of the other cuff of between 240mm and 280mm when locked.
2. Ordinary handcuffs are handcuffs which have a dimension, including chain, measured from the outer edge of one cuff to the outer edge of the other cuff of between 150mm and 240mm when locked and which have not been modified to cause physical pain or suffering.
3. Electric-shock belts designed for restraining human beings by the administration of electric shocks having a no-load voltage not exceeding 10,000 volts.
4. Electric-shock dart guns having a no-load voltage not exceeding 10,000 volts.
5. Cluster munitions means conventional munitions designed to disperse or release explosive sub-munitions.
6. Explosive sub-munitions means conventional munitions, weighing less than 20 kilograms each, which, in order to perform their task, are dispersed or released from another conventional munition and which are designed to function by detonating an explosive charge prior to, on or after impact. The Organisers reserve the right to make the final decision concerning the eligibility of exhibits and matters of compliance.
7. Explosive bomblets means conventional munitions, weighing less than 20 kilograms each, which are not self-propelled and which, in order to perform their task, are specifically designed to be dispersed or released by a dispenser affixed to an aircraft, and are designed to function by detonating an explosive charge prior to, on or after impact.
Footnotes:
1. Compliance audits will take place before and throughout DSEi to ensure that equipment, services, documentation and all other forms of visual promotion and display exhibited comply with the above-mentioned undertakings.
2. Exhibitors promoting or exhibiting prohibited items, either overtly or covertly during the exhibition, will be in breach of their contract with the organisers and will forfeit their right to exhibit at DSEi. The Organisers will take appropriate action which may involve the removal of equipment, documentation and/or visual promotional material from the stand into safe custody. The stand may be closed immediately and the exhibitor will have no claim for redress against the Organisers, nor any refund for loss of fees.
3. Exhibitors will not be permitted to exhibit if their sole or predominant aim is to import for immediate resale.
4. The Organisers reserve the right to make the final decision concerning the eligibility of exhibits and matters of compliance.
Note: Services in respect of the list of prohibited equipment are also prohibited.
C. Dangerous exhibits, prohibited weapons, firearms & hazardous equipment.
Any exhibitor who, by way of trade or business, manufacturers, sells, transfers, repairs, tests or proves or exposes for sale or transfer or has in his possession for sale, repair, test or proof any firearm or ammunition to which Sections 1 and 5 of the Great Britain Firearms Act 1968 (as amended) apply, must first obtain a Metropolitan Police Service Registered Firearms Dealer Certificate to cover their temporary exhibiting activities at ExCeL. In addition, any exhibitor who has in his possession or purchases or acquires, or manufactures sells or transfers any firearm and ammunition to which Section 5 of the Act applies also requires a separate authority issued by the Home Office to cover their activities at ExCeL (full details will be issued with the exhibitors’ handbook). Failure to obtain a Registered Firearms Dealer certificate and Section 5 authority, as applicable, prior to arrival in the UK will preclude an exhibitor from exhibiting. Any exhibitor who attempts to exhibit or sell any fi rearm or ammunition without the appropriate certificate and authority will be liable to prosecution.
D. Exhibitor registration & accreditation.
All personnel attending DSEi, including exhibitors’ stand personnel, representatives, guests, contractors/subcontractors (stand build and services) and security personnel who will be working on stands and hospitality areas, must be pre-registered to attend DSEi. It is the responsibility of the exhibitor to check the bona fides of all personnel that they register to attend DSEi. All exhibitors must inform the Organisers of any private security officers or security officers from their own company who may be onsite during DSEi. The exhibitor takes responsibility for the bona fi des of such security officers, including Security Industry Association licensing checks, where applicable. Security Officers employed by exhibitors have jurisdiction on their tenancy areas only and are not permitted to carry out any duties elsewhere within ExCeL. Information regarding exhibitors’ security and licensing is to be provided to the Organisers on request. Security Officers and Police Officers employed by the Organisers and Organisers Security Management have primacy in all matters concerning breaches of security and have right of access to all tenancy areas.