We haven’t blogged for a few weeks because of the election. But progress on the new licensing service to replace SPIRE has carried on throughout, not least on the open general export licence (OGEL) registration process. Registration, not application OGELs …
Our design team have just started looking at another strand of the new licensing service. For the last few months we’ve been colloquially calling this a ‘dashboard’, but the idea of a simple page of buttons and levers doesn’t do …
We’re expanding our private beta. We’ve been testing our new licence-checking service with a small group of exporters for the last couple of months, but it’s now time to widen the net. We’re looking for volunteers to run through what …
One of the most used areas of SPIRE is, unsurprisingly, the SIEL application form. Finding out which licence might apply to an export isn’t much use if you can’t then get your hands on that licence. Fair to say if …
Followers of this blog will know that the team working on the SPIRE replacement made excellent progress during 2016. And thankfully, most traders we’ve spoken to seem happy with what we’ve done so far. But of course, the service is …
As we strive to move end-user undertakings from a paper-based system to a digital one, we've come into contact with numerous exporters with excellent ideas about how we can improve and speed up the process. The amount of information required, …
One of an exporter’s more onerous tasks is the completion of an end-user undertaking. These are commonplace across the export control community and usually come in the form of paper documents that an exporter has to get their customers to …
Followers of this blog might be wondering what’s been going on with our prototype. Our faithful friend has been with us since the distant days of our discovery phase. We’ve pushed out three or four major iterations of this prototype and …
During development of the replacement for the SPIRE import/export licensing system, we might have mentioned once or twice that we need your help.
Not every government service gets the best press and few would deny there have been a few slip-ups in recent years. The import/export licensing blog is designed to keep you informed about progress on SPIRE’s replacement, so we can get …
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