{"id":341,"date":"2019-05-31T17:33:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exportcompliancesolutions.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:33:27","slug":"ccl-keeps-changing-wassenaar-venezuela-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exportcompliancesolutions.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/ccl-keeps-changing-wassenaar-venezuela-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"The CCL Keeps Changing: Wassenaar and Venezuela Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Commerce Revises CCL to Reflect Wassenaar Plenary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On May 23, 2019, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a rule (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/FR-2019-05-23\/pdf\/2019-10778.pdf\">84 FR 23886<\/a>) which amends the Commerce Control List (CCL) to reflect changes made to the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies at the December 2018 Plenary meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wassenaar.org\/\">Wassenaar Arrangement<\/a> on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies is a global multilateral export control regime, covering both conventional weapons and sensitive dual-use goods and technologies.\u00a0 Participants agree to control exports and retransfers of items on a control list of dual-use goods and technologies and munitions.\u00a0 Its Plenary meeting normally occurs once a year in December in Vienna, Austria.\u00a0 CCL revisions take effect when officially amended through a Federal Register notice.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/exportcompliancesolutions.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/export-compliance-updates-deccs-electronic-waste-wassenaar\/\">Click here<\/a> for last year\u2019s updates.)<\/p>\n<p>The new rule revises four Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) and adds one new ECCN as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3A001 Electronic Items <\/strong>\u2013 Adds paragraph b.3.f. to control discrete microwave transistors \u201crated for operation with a peak saturated power output greater than 5 W (37.0 dBm) at all frequencies exceeding 8.5 GHz up to and including 31.8 GHz\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>3D005 Continuity of Operation Software<\/strong> \u2013 Creates a new ECCN for software that ensures continuity of operation when electronics are exposed to Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) or Electrostatic Discharge (ESD).<\/li>\n<li><strong>5A002 Information Security Systems, Equipment, and Components<\/strong> \u2013 Revises Technical Notes following 5A002.a.4 to address certain post-quantum asymmetric algorithms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>6A001 Acoustic Systems, Equipment and Components<\/strong> \u2013 Revises paragraph a.2.a.6 to add \u201cand having a \u2018hydrophone sensitivity\u2019 better than -230 dB below 4 kHz\u201d to remove transducers or hydrophones that are not of strategic concern, moves and revises two notes, and corrects availability of the License Exception Low Value Shipment (LVS)<\/li>\n<li><strong>9A004 Space Launch Vehicles and Spacecraft<\/strong> \u2013 Adds paragraph .g to control aircraft specially designed or modified to be air-launch platforms for space launch vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Venezuela<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following day, May 24, 2019, BIS published a rule (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/FR-2019-05-24\/pdf\/2019-11034.pdf\">84 FR 24018<\/a>) removing Venezuela from Country Group B and moving it to Country Group D:1, as well as D:2, D:3, and D:4.<\/p>\n<p>Country Group B provides favorable treatment for exports of some National Security-controlled items through the GBS license exception (EAR \u00a7740.4), while Country Group D identifies countries of concern:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">D:1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 National security<br \/>\nD:2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nuclear<br \/>\nD:3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chemical &amp; Biological<br \/>\nD:4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Missile Technology<br \/>\nD:5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. Arms Embargoed Countries<\/p>\n<p>The move from Group B to Group D makes some exports, reexports, and transfers ineligible for license exceptions and updates the published BIS licensing policy towards Venezuela to a more restrictive position.<\/p>\n<p>Before this change, Venezuela was already listed as a D:5 U.S. arms embargo country based on its status as a prohibited destination under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/cgi-bin\/retrieveECFR?gp=&amp;SID=70e390c181ea17f847fa696c47e3140a&amp;mc=true&amp;r=PART&amp;n=pt22.1.126#se22.1.126_11\">\u00a7126.1<\/a>.\u00a0 Venezuela was also already subject to EAR restrictions for military end users under \u00a7744.21 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/resource-center\/sanctions\/programs\/pages\/venezuela.aspx\">significant financial sanctions<\/a> through the Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).<\/p>\n<p>Export compliance is always changing.\u00a0 Subscribe to Our \u201cEAR\u201d&#8230; 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