Date: 15th July 2025
Locations: Online / Central London, UK
As part of its on-going efforts to try to organise events focused on important aspects of export and trade controls, not usually covered elsewhere, the Awareness Outreach & Training Activities Sub-Committee of the Export Group for Aerospace, Defence & Dual-Use (www.egad.org.uk), an export controls-related special interest group operating under the joint umbrella of ADS Group, British Marine, Society of Maritime Industries and techUK, is working once again with one of its Members, Mayer Brown LLP (https://www.mayerbrown.com/en), in organising an event on a topic which has been identified by the Sub-Committee as being of interest to UK firms.
This hybrid half-day event, on UK Trade Sanctions Evasion and Enforcement will be FREE TO ATTEND, and will be taking place in Central London on the afternoon of Tuesday 15th July 2025, with an option for attendees who cannot attend in person to be able to dial in to listen to the speakers, and to pose any queries that they might have on the topics being covered. Questions and queries can be posed anonymously.
Speakers are intended to include: The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; the Royal United Services Institute; HM Revenue & Customs; and the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation, as well as from the legal experts at Mayer Brown LLP. Topics to be covered include: the UK Government approach to identifying and combatting evasion; OTSI’s role in engaging and educating industry, and it responsibilities for enforcement and licensing; the development of HMRC’s approach to enforcing sanctions; and a perspective on key current trends in the US.
If anyone has any queries relating to this event, they can contact: Brinley.Salzmann@adsgroup.org.uk.
To register to attend this event, which includes time set aside for informal networking with the speakers and other attendees, please visit: https://www.adsgroup.org.uk/events/hybrid-event-uk-trade-sanctions-enforcement-evasion-in-the-trade-space-and-voluntary-disclosures/.
