Strategic Trade Controls

Over decades, export control has proved its importance, primarily in preventing the spread of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the world. These objectives can only be met by multilateral cooperation with other countries, companies and international organisations globally as well as in the European Union.

In 2015, just like in 2014, the Strategic Goods Commission was greatly affected by sanctions imposed by the European Union on the Russian Federation for its activities harming or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. The sanctions restrict the export and import of military and dual-use goods to and from Russia and transit related to Russia. However, in 2014 it was difficult for companies to understand and apply sanctions and the Commission had to spend a lot of time providing information and consultations but in 2015 there was less interest in transactions with Russia. Such a change indicates a greater awareness of companies. 

Stratlink is a web-based information system for registering, processing and issuing strategic goods and their licenses. With the help of Stratlink, application, processing and issuing of licenses becomes easy and transparent. The system saves all the activities into log files and stores applications, processing data and license documents in the database.

Transparent and accurate strategic export control helps to prevent illegal spreading and manufacturing of strategical goods and is important in terms of national security.