UK Issues Guidance on Export Control Compliance for Academic Research

The United Kingdom's Department of International Trade published guidance on how academics should comply with export control measures for their research. The agency is especially concerned with how research could be co-opted for military purposes or for the development or delivery of weapons of mass destruction, and targeted its guidance to researchers who work with overseas colleagues on research, take their work overseas or export their technology. The guidance covers the areas in which research is at risk of requiring an export license, including aeronautical and space technology, nuclear technologies, applied physics, biotechnology, and telecommunications and information technology.