Exhibitors should be aware that the promotion, procurement or brokering of any item on display at ITEC may require the granting of an export control and/or import license or other permissions from relevant government authorities. The promotion of items classed as Category A under the UK Export Control Order 2008 is prohibited at all Clarion Defence & Security Events.

The Organisers of ITEC work with and act in support of the ECJU and DBT to ensure that all Exhibitor’s equipment, services, documentation and all other forms of visual promotion and display, exhibited or proposed comply with UK law & UK/UN international undertakings and other relevant sanctions.

The restrictions apply to all forms of promotion, including the distribution of brochures or other promotional material from your stand which features images or details of any Category A goods, even if your company does not intend to market these goods at the event.

Category A goods include:

  • Goods banned by the EU because of evidence of their use in torture.
  • Restraints specially designed for restraining human beings (except those that are ‘ordinary handcuffs’).
  • Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an electric shock (eg, electric-shock batons, electric-shock shields, stun-guns and electric-shock dart-guns).
  • Hand held spiked batons.
  • Certain cluster munitions, explosive sub munitions including components.
  • Land mines, anti-personnel mines and anti-material cartridges (Land mines act 1998).

Note: Services in respect of the list of prohibited equipment are also prohibited.

The only non-unitary munitions permitted to be promoted or displayed at ITEC are those which comply with the provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Specifically, they must have all of the following characteristics:

a. each munition contains fewer than ten explosive sub-munitions.
b. each explosive sub-munition weighs more than four kilograms.
c. each explosive sub-munition is designed to detect and engage a single target object.
d. each explosive sub-munition is equipped with an electronic self-destruction mechanism.
e. each explosive sub-munition is equipped with an electronic self-deactivating feature.

All other non-unitary munitions, explosive sub-munitions and explosive bomblets, together with components specifically designed for such cluster munitions, explosive sub-munitions or explosive bomblets are prohibited.

This exclusion does not apply to conventional munitions which are designed to dispense flares, smoke, pyrotechnics or chaff, electrical or electronic effects or which are designed exclusively for an air defence role

If you are caught promoting Category A goods without a relevant export control and/or import license, you will be ejected from the event. UK companies or UK nationals involved in such activity may also face enforcement action from the relevant UK authorities.

For more information on the latest UK legislation, follow the links below:

Exhibitors shall not exhibit live firearms, ammunition & pyrotechnics on their stand or use live firearms, ammunition and pyrotechnics in any demonstration. Dummy or de-activated weapons may be exhibited but will require the correct import/export license from the relevant authorities.

Non inert pyrotechnic articles which are assigned in accordance with the United Nations recommendations Articles U.N. no. 0431 or 0432. are prohibited.

Prohibited items include multiple effects cartridge systems (MECS) and non-lethal explosive devices including stun grenades.

Definition:
“Pyrotechnic article” is an article which—
contains explosive substances or an explosive mixture of substances designed to produce heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of such effects through self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions

“Stun grenades” means pyrotechnic articles designed to confuse, disorientate or distract a person.

All exhibitors are to complete the compulsory “Declaration of Firearms including Dummy or Deactivated Weapons” form stating if they intend to display such items. Those who will be exhibiting such items must also ensure they have the correct license/authority in place and send copies to the Organisers.

The display of Offensive Weapons is strictly controlled.

Exhibitors should be aware that the physical display, promotion or sale of Offensive Weapons as categorised in Schedule 1 to Section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 at Clarion Defence & Security Exhibitions is prohibited. This restriction does not apply to the distribution of brochures or other promotional material from your stand which features images or details these goods.

Section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (CJA) provides that any person who manufactures, sells or hires or offers for sale or hire, exposes or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or hire, or lends or gives to any other person, a weapon to which that section applies shall be guilty of an offence.

The importation of any such weapon is also prohibited under the CJA.

The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988 specifies descriptions of weapons to which section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies. This Order adds the weapons the stealth knife and straight, side-handled or friction-lock truncheons, to the list of specified weapons contained in the 1988 Order.

An exemption to the act is provided for those companies supplying the Crown and organisations from countries covered under the Visiting Forces Act 1952.

Please see the:

- Government information regarding Offensive Weapons
- The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment) Order 2004
- Visiting Forces Act 1952

All personnel attending ITEC, including exhibitors’ stand personnel, representatives, guests, contractors/subcontractors (stand build and services) and security personnel who will be working on stands and hospitality areas, must be pre-registered to attend ITEC. It is the responsibility of the exhibitor to check the bona fides of all personnel that they register to attend ITEC.

FOOTNOTES

1. Compliance checks will take place before and throughout ITEC to ensure that equipment, services, documentation and all other forms of visual promotion and display exhibited comply with the above-mentioned undertakings.

2. Exhibitors promoting or exhibiting prohibited items, either overtly or covertly during the exhibition will be in breach of their contract with the Organisers and will forfeit their right to exhibit at ITEC. The Organisers will take appropriate action which may involve the removal of equipment, documentation and/or visual promotional material from the stand into safe custody. The stand may be closed immediately and the exhibitor will have no claim for redress against the Organisers, nor any refund for loss of fees.

3. Exhibitors should refrain from using language in promotional material which implies equipment is combat or battle tested. Images or videos containing combat fatalities are also prohibited.

4. The Organisers reserve the right to make the final decision concerning the eligibility of exhibits, promotional materials and matters of compliance.