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UK OTSI standalone trade services licences: lawyers’ end to end guide to scope, grounds, applications, evidence, decisions, and compliance duties

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Practice notes

The Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI)

The Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) sits within the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). It helps businesses to navigate UK trade sanctions and holds civil enforcement powers in respect of certain trade sanctions breaches. OTSI also acts as the licensing authority for specified trade sanctions licences—covering permissions to provide (and procure) particular standalone sanctioned services, as well as some export-related prohibitions concerning goods and their associated ancillary services.

In the UK, responsibility for trade sanctions licensing is divided between different licensing bodies, depending on whether the activity concerns standalone services, goods, ancillary services or imports. If the planned activity falls under more than one body’s remit, you may need to submit separate licence applications. See also Practice Note: Licences and exceptions in trade sanctions. OTSI performs licensing functions granted by the relevant sanctions regulations made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA 2018). Sanctions regimes with prohibitions overseen by OTSI include:

Afghanistan
Central African Republic
Counter-terrorism (International)
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Democratic People’s Republic of the Congo
Haiti
Iran
Iraq
ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida
Libya
Myanmar...

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