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Implementing Regulations

The publications listed below are contained in the Export Administration Regulations. For convenience, we are making them available here separately.

05/06/04
69 FR 25312
Protective Equipment Export License Jurisdiction

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This rule revises Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) 1A004 to conform to language in the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual Use Goods and Technologies entry 1.A.4 (the Dual Use List) thereby imposing national security and anti-terrorism license requirements on those items. It also creates a new ECCN 1A995 to impose antiterrorism controls on certain items that are excluded from that entry of the Dual Use List.

05/06/04
69 FR 25314
December 2003 Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary Agreement Implementation: Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Commerce Control List, and Reporting Requirements; and Interpretation Regarding NUMA Technology; Correction

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The Bureau of Industry and Security published in the Federal Register of April 29, 2004 [69 FR 23598], a final rule that revised certain entries controlled for national security reasons in Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Part I (telecommunications), 5 Part II (information security), 6, and 7 to conform with changes in the List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies maintained and agreed to by governments participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (Wassenaar Arrangement). Part of the Related Controls paragraph in the List of Items Controlled section of ECCN 3A001 was inadvertently deleted. This document corrects this error.

04/29/04
69 FR 23598
December 2003 Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary Agreement Implementation: Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Commerce Control List, and Reporting Requirements; and Interpretation Regarding NUMA Technology

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This final rule revises certain entries controlled for national security reasons in Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Part I (telecommunications), 5 Part II (information security), 6, and 7 to conform with changes in the List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies maintained and agreed to by governments participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (Wassenaar Arrangement). The purpose of this final rule is to make the necessary changes to the Commerce Control List to implement revisions to the Wassenaar List that were agreed upon in the December 2003 meeting. In addition, this rule adds a paragraph to Interpretation 12 "Computers" to provide guidance as to how to calculate the Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) for computer systems with ‘non-uniform memory access' (NUMA) architecture, and to define NUMA.

6/6/02 Revisions and Clarifications to Encryption Controls in the Export Administration Regulations - Implementation of Changes in Category 5, Part 2 ("Information Security") of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies. As a result of the revisions made by this rule, mass market encryption commodities and software with symmetric key lengths exceeding 64 bits may, for the first time, be exported and reexported to most destinations without a license, following a 30-day review by BIS. This rule also expands License Exception ENC by authorizing exports and reexports of information security test, inspection, and production equipment controlled under ECCN 5B002.

3/8/02 Implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Items Revisions: computers. This rule implements computer revisions to the Wassenaar List that were agreed to multilaterally on December 1, 2000. Specifically this rule revised the national security control parameters for computers by raising the Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) from 6,500 Million Operations per Second (MTOPS) to 28,000 MTOPS.

1/03/02 Implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use items: Revisions to Categories 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 9 of the Commerce Commerce Control List and Revisions to Reporting Requirements. The purpose of this rule is to make necessary changes to the Commerce Control List to implement revisions to the Wassenaar List that were agreed upon by the Wassenaar Arrangement on December 1, 2000 and to make necessary revisions to the reporting requirements. The majority of the changes that affect Category 4 items, such as computers will be published in a separate rule.

4/09/01 - Regulation Implementing Wassenaar Arrangement Control List for Microprocessors, Graphic Accelerators and External Interconnects - Revises the Commerce Control List by implementing multilateral agreed changes to microprocessors, graphic accelerators and external interconnects.

7/12/00 - Regulation Implementing Wassenaar Arrangement Control List of Dual-Use Items: Revisions to Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 of the Commerce Control List - Dual-use items controlled multilaterally by Wassenaar are implemented in the Commerce Control List and are controlled for national security reasons.

5/26/00 - Regulation Conforming the Wassenaar Control List Revisions to the Export Administration Regulations - Makes conforming revisions throughout the Export Administration Regulations to national security and anti-terrorism items implemented in the Commerce Control List and inserts material inadvertently omitted form the July 23, 1999 final rule.

7/23/99 - Regulation Implementing Wassenaar Arrangement Control List of Dual-Use Items: Revisions to Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 of the Commerce Control List Rule - Dual-use items controlled multilaterally by Wassenaar are implemented in the Commerce Control List and are controlled for national security reasons.

10/14/98 - Regulation Clarifying the Wassenaar Reporting Requirements - Clarifies the reporting requirements for computers, technology exports, exports to governments and international organizations, and other items on the Wassenaar Arrangement's Sensitive List.

8/07/98 - Regulation Conforming the Wassenaar Control List Revisions to the Export Administration Regulations - Makes conforming revisions throughout the Export Administration Regulations to national security and anti-terrorism items implemented in the Commerce Control List.

1/15/98 - Regulation Implementing the Wassenaar Arrangement Control List of Dual-Use Item: Revisions to the Commerce Control List and Reporting Requirements - Dual-use items controlled multilaterally by Wassenaar are implemented in the Commerce Control List and are controlled or national security reasons.

Changes to the Commerce Control List (CCL)

List of National Security controlled items added by the Wassenaar Arrangement and implemented on the Commerce Control List in 1998

List of Items removed from License Exception eligibility

Renumbering of items controlled for Anti-Terrorism (AT) reasons in 1998


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