Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has amended U.S. export control regulations to reflect changes made last year to a multilateral export control agreement intended to regulate the export of dual-use items, according to a notice published today in the Federal Register (see GSN, March 6).

The bureau has amended the U.S. Commerce Control List, effective today, to reflect the changes made last year to the control list of the Wassenaar Arrangement — a 33-member export control regime that seeks to control the transfer of dual-use goods by coordinating national export control policies. During a December 2002 plenary meeting held in Vienna, Wassenaar members agreed to a number of revisions to the regime’s control list in several categories of goods and technologies, including advanced materials, electronics, computers and sensors and lasers.

Members are meeting this week in Vienna for the 2003 plenary meeting of the regime, a bureau spokesman told Global Security Newswire today.