Refresher European Export Controls – Refresher WEBEECRE251201

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Within the present training architecture, the overarching objective is to furnish seasoned trade compliance professionals with an incisive, practice-oriented reprise of the regulatory domains that frame their daily risk calculus: the European Dual-Use regime – most recently recast by Regulation (EU) 2021/821 and its delegated acts. The training is devised not merely to update statutory citations, but to sharpen strategic judgement: participants will leave able to trace the practical impact of new licence templates, amended control list entries and evolving enforcement priorities, and to transpose those insights into a leaner, audit defensible internal control environment. The EU-centred refresher course is designed to equip participants with a comprehensive understanding of jurisdictional fundamentals, underpinned by comparative analysis of German, French, Spanish and UK case materials. This approach ensures immediate operational relevance and facilitates effective application of the principles learned. Please find below the details of the meeting.

Where appropriate, we also examine the intra EU transfer of defence related products under Directive 2009/43/EC and provide an overview of Union General Export Authorisations (EU001–EU008) and national General Licences. Understanding these instruments enables participants to streamline authorisation procedures while ensuring compliance.

Pedagogically, the course flow is intentionally narrative rather than didactic in appearance: after a brief “orientation vignette” that reconnects recent high-profile enforcement actions to the participants’ own portfolios, the trainers weave mini case simulations, plenary debriefs and time-boxed “decision sprints” into an unbroken storyline that mirrors a real export authorisation cycle. Knowledge accretion thus occurs through cyclical exposure, rehearsal and integration rather than through lecture alone. The agile “flex window” allows the facilitator – guided by a lightweight entry poll and live analytics from in-session voting – to accentuate those subtopics that resonate most with the cohort whether encryption carve outs or Russia embargo nuances.

The day culminates in a forward-looking commitment exercise: each learner drafts a short transfer memorandum that maps one newly gained insight onto a concrete procedural adjustment awaiting implementation in their respective organisations. This memorandum, submitted electronically, functions simultaneously as a personal action plan and as documentary evidence for ISO 29993 surveillance records without requiring any additional preparatory work from the client. Furthermore, live surveys offer valuable insights into national comparative data and its impact on decision-making.

Scope note: the course remains focused on EU export control topics; national comparators (DE, FR, ES, NL) are addressed where pertinent to the cohort. 

Subjects

• Dual-Use
• Embargoes & Sanctions
• General Prohibitions
• Re-export
• End use

Schedule

You can download the preliminary schedule of the webinar here.

Teaching Methods/Material and Intended Number of Hours

• Lectures
• Exercises using participant's case studies
• Exercises using lecturer's case studies
• Working with legal texts

Teaching material used

• Legal texts, excerpts from:
  • AWG, AWV
  • EU Dual-use Regulation (EU-VO 821/2021)
  • Excerpts from the annexes to EU Regulation 821/2021
• Other documents
  • Leaflets issued by authorities

The training course lasts 6,5 hours.

Target group

The training is expressly tailored to an audience of senior export control officers, in-house legal counsel responsible for trade compliance, technology control leads embedded in engineering or R&D, and other practitioners who already command the canonical vocabulary of EU export control and now require a high-density update rather than entry-level instruction. By capping each session at thirty participants, the programme safeguards the conversational bandwidth necessary for peer exchange and nuanced scenario work, while permitting as many sequential deliveries as needed to reach the full population of one hundred to one hundred and fifty employees envisaged by the client.

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