Recommendation 16

Although the Cold War-era Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls cannot simply be replicated in current circumstances, it established a precedent for an efficient and effective cooperation mechanism that operated successfully for almost 45 years. We ask the Government to set out its view in response to this report on how best to achieve the objective of sustaining cooperation between the UK, EU, US and other like-minded democracies in implementation and enforcement of sanctions regimes in future. (Paragraph 106) The UK-EU defence relationship