Recommendation 29

While recognising that it is not practicable to carry out post-shipment verification for all exports, we recommend that the Government instigate a pilot programme by 2025 of post-shipment verification. This should include on-site inspections to examine the resource implications and potential benefits of post-shipment verification. We agree with our witnesses from SIPRI that a useful starting point for modelling the pilot would be consideration of the Swiss system which uses a country risk matrix and the German system which mostly inspects small arms and light weapons. (Paragraph 86) Countries of concern