On 22–23 November Dr Sibylle Bauer, Director of SIPRI’s Dual-use and Arms Trade Control Programme, facilitated and presented at the Regional Seminar on Investigating and Prosecuting Export Control Violations in Kuala Lumpur.
She gave an overview of key issues in strategic trade control and presented challenges of strategic trade control prosecutions.
The seminar was hosted by the Malaysian Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Strategic Trade Secretariat, in cooperation with the EU Programme Cooperation in Dual-use Export Control.
Licensing officers, investigators and prosecutors from Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Vietnam discussed approaches to investigating and prosecuting strategic trade control offences. Investigators and prosecutors from the EU presented past cases.
Read more about the EU Cooperation in Dual-Use Export Control or contact Dr Sibylle Bauer.