In a 19-page legal letter seen by the Observer, CAAT warns that the government's refusal to suspend current licences to Saudi Arabia, and its decision "to continue the granting of new licences" for military equipment that may be destined for use in Yemen, is unlawful.
The granting of export licences to arms manufacturers became more transparent.
However there is strong opposition to the granting of drilling licences to fracking companies.
Allegations of corruption and abuse of public office dog Abdul Taib Mahmud, Sarawak's chief minister, finance minister and planning-and-resources minister, who is believed to have firm control over the granting of logging licences.
The Icac revelations have ignited criticism from inside and outside the Liberal party about influence peddling in NSW, after the former state Labor government was embroiled in controversy over its former ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald and the granting of mine licences.
The prime minister agreed to the change in Britain's position, which will allow the granting of export licences for civil nuclear expertise and technology, after Cable wrote to the cabinet in June.
" A key criterion for the granting of the licences was that all non-lethal control methods, such as creating places for pheasants to hide and diverting buzzards away by leaving food out, had been unsuccessfully tried.
At the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Monday, UK-based Vodafone, Spain's Telefónica and Telecom Italia called for measures to boost their power including a single market with common rules across Europe, lower tax and the granting of spectrum licences in perpetuity as in China and the United States.
Eighteen months ago more than 100 researchers sent an open letter to Science Minister Lord Sainsbury warning that increasing bureaucracy in the granting of project licences was hampering their ability to do research in the UK.
"One wonders if it is really possible to kill over 1,000 rhino if there isn't some degree of collusion and internal corruption that is going on?" Another factor that has exacerbated the killing in recent years is the granting of sporting licences for the export of rhino horns.
