SSECU registration and customs accreditation
- Registration as a foreign-trade participant
- Full document package for registration
- Preliminary goods expertise
- Obtaining the official registration certificate
The first export under the new mechanism. We'll run yours too.
Hands-on experience: from SSECU registration to crossing the border.
We support exports under Fast Track Drone Deal, setting up Joint Venture with foreign partners and technology transfer.
Company case
UAV export
Fast Track · 2026
SSECU registration
Partner verification
Fast Track permit
Customs clearance
in progress
Border crossing
- 0days
- Fast Track review instead of 90 under the standard procedure
- 0M UAH
- minimum contract threshold for finished products and technologies
- 0%/30%
- state budget deductions: finished products / components
- 0years
- term of intergovernmental Drone Deal agreements with partner countries
Services
Full cycle — from the first document to crossing the border
Every case is unique. We define scope and estimate after a free initial assessment.
Permit under Fast Track Drone Deal
- Check against the Critical Goods List
- Confirmation of production surplus
- Preparing and filing the SSECU application
- Liaison with the MFA on the partner country
Foreign buyer verification
- Sanctions and compliance screening
- Ownership structure review
- International Import Certificate
- End-User Certificate
Structuring the export contract
- Force majeure: Ministry of Defence priority
- Protection from penalties in international arbitration
- Calculation of special fund deductions
- Currency control under martial law
Temporary export abroad for testing
- Permit with a return guarantee
- Demonstrations, ranges, exhibitions
- Temporary export customs regime
- Support for the product's return
Joint Venture, technology and Defence City
- Structuring a Joint Venture with a foreign partner
- Licensing schemes without transfer of rights
- Re-export control (20% to the budget)
- Defence City resident status
Team
The experts handling your case
One team works on your case.
Pavlo Pavliv
CEO, Global Miltech Legal
Kyiv
Founder of the firm, Miltech expert. Structuring exports and contracts, building and maintaining international relations.
- —Export process organisation
- —Contracts and international partnerships
Oleh Diakiv
Co-founder · CEO of PARABELLUM
Lviv
Exports to international markets since 2007.
- —Contracts with foreign buyers
- —End-user certificates, JV, licensing
Mariia Overchenko
International Business Development
Krakow
Works with foreign buyers and supports them at every stage of cooperation. Develops international partnerships and finds new business opportunities. Coordinates communication with international clients and partners.
- —International business development
- —Entry into new international markets
- —Building strategic partnerships
- —Communication with international partners
Export Map
A manufacturer's route to export: a step-by-step map
Two routes to international markets — direct supplies under Drone Deal and joint production under Build with Ukraine. Pick your route and see what each step involves.
I. Choose your export channel
Option A — via a special exporter. It handles the deal turnkey (for a commission fee).
Option B — by obtaining your own export authority. The company must be included in the list of business entities authorised to carry out international transfers (approved by a separate Cabinet of Ministers resolution). This requires:
- ✓Registering the company and its goods with the State Export Control Service of Ukraine (SSECU);
- ✓Implementing an internal compliance programme (ICP) and having it certified by the SSECU.
Option C — by obtaining Defence City resident status.
Note: export authority based on Defence City resident status requires the Government to adopt the relevant secondary legislation.
II. Strategic partnership (Drone Deal countries)
- ✓Current partners: Lithuania, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
- ✓Upcoming partners: over 20 agreements in the pipeline — including Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany and France.
- ✓Entry threshold: contracts for finished products from UAH 15 million; no minimum threshold for components.
III. Requirements for foreign buyers
- ✓The buyer is not under Ukrainian or international sanctions.
- ✓No links to an aggressor state.
- ✓State guarantees: no re-export without Ukraine's consent, unchanged end use, return of technological improvements to Ukraine.
- ✓End users are the armed forces and authorised bodies protecting critical infrastructure.
IV. Prepare the documents
- ✓A copy of the foreign trade contract or its draft, a letter of intent, an enquiry.
- ✓A document confirming state guarantees from the importing country.
- ✓Documents proving the foreign entity meets the requirements.
- ✓Proof of payment of the export permit fee.
I. The Fast Track timeline: how it works
- ✓Day 0: Filing — the exporter files the application with the SSECU.
- ✓Day 3: Copies circulated — copies go to the Ministry of Defence, the SBU and intelligence bodies (SZRU, HUR).
- ✓Day 15: Interagency clearance — silence counts as consent if no reply is given.
- ✓By day 30: Permit issued — the SSECU takes the final decision.
The standard procedure (up to 90 days) still applies to cases outside the Fast Track mechanism.
II. When a permit is suspended
- ✓Failure to meet obligations under state defence procurement contracts.
- ✓Failure to make the required payments.
- ✓A Ministry of Defence notice of intent to procure the goods — up to 30 calendar days.
III. Support and digital integration
- ✓Export Hub — advice and assistance at every stage of the procedure.
- ✓EXPORTLINK — a digital system for real-time tracking of export application status.
destination
Don't want to walk this route alone?
Temporary export
Want to test your drones on their own range? It's possible — without a sale.
Partner-country armies want to trial systems in their own conditions before buying. This doesn't require a full contract — there's a temporary-export procedure. We've already handled such cases.
UA
Ukraine
SSECU permit
Temporary export
INT
Partner
Range / test
Return
✓
Contract
Fast Track
01 Temporary export permit
We prepare and file the application with SSECU: justification of purpose (testing, demonstration, exhibition), duration abroad and return obligations.
02 Guarantees and obligations of the parties
Receiving-party documents: who is responsible for safekeeping, admission conditions, ban on transfer to third parties, and the procedure in case of damage.
03 Customs regime and logistics
The temporary-export customs regime — without paying the 20% deductions that apply to a sale. The product crosses the border both ways.
04 Return or conversion into a contract
We control the return and close obligations to SSECU. If the tests succeed, we convert the case into a full Fast Track contract.
Testing is the shortest path to a large contract. The F-Drones case began exactly with the US side trialling the drones in their own conditions and ended with a supply of 2,000 units for the US Armed Forces.
Procedure
Six stages to lawful export
A route we've already walked with a real contract. At every step we know the pitfalls.
- 01
Export eligibility audit
We check whether the product falls under the Critical Goods List, whether the buyer's country is a Drone Deal participant, and whether the contract meets the mechanism's requirements.
- 02
SSECU registration
We register the company with the State Service for Export Control, run a preliminary goods expertise and customs accreditation as a foreign-trade participant.
- 03
Buyer verification and guarantees
Sanctions screening of the counterparty, beneficiary checks, obtaining the International Import Certificate and the End-User Certificate.
- 04
Contract structuring
A foreign-trade contract with force majeure for the Defence Forces' priority, special-fund deduction mechanics and retention of intellectual property rights.
- 05
Obtaining the Fast Track permit
Filing the application with SSECU without the Interagency Commission. Proving production surplus: the ability to fulfil a state contract and export simultaneously.
- 06
Customs clearance and compliance
Support at the border crossing, reporting to SSECU, monitoring end-use conditions and controlling royalty inflows on re-export.
Buyer requirements
Will your foreign buyer pass verification?
The permit won't be issued if the counterparty fails the security criteria. We check this before filing.
No sanctions
The client, its owners and officers are not under sanctions per Ukraine's Law “On Sanctions” and are not linked to terrorist activity.
No aggressor control
The legal entity is not controlled by authorities, citizens or residents of an aggressor or occupying state.
Transparent ownership
None of the founders, beneficiaries or officers is a citizen of an aggressor state. The structure is disclosed down to the ultimate beneficiary.
No assets in an aggressor country
The foreign partner holds no corporate rights in companies registered in an aggressor state.
Scaling the business
Not only export — incentives & partnerships
After the first contract, growth continues: the Defence City tax regime and joint ventures with foreign partners.
Defence City
CMU Resolution No. 1745 of 17.12.2025
A special legal regime for defence-industry enterprises: tax incentives in exchange for reinvesting in defence production.
- Corporate income tax exemption subject to reinvestment
- Land, property and environmental tax relief
- Resident criterion — at least 75% of qualified income from the defence sector
- Simplified staff deferment and protection from inspections
Joint Venture
Joint ventures with a foreign partner
We structure JVs and technology transfer without losing control over intellectual property and in compliance with export rules.
- Licensing structures without alienating rights to the technology
- Re-export control and 20% deductions to the state budget
- Production localisation in the EU and access to partner markets
- Working partnership models (Rheinmetall, Auterion as structure examples)
Analytics
Fresh on defence export
FAQ
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