Government Weighing How to Tackle Unimplemented 2015 Wassenaar Language
The Bureau of Industry and Security could take regulatory action as soon as May toward implementing language the U.S. agreed to during the December 2015 Wassenaar Plenary meeting that hasn’t yet been formalized through rulemaking, BIS Office of National Security…
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and Technology Transfer Controls Director Eileen Albanese said Dec. 14 during a Practising Law Institute export controls conference. After getting significant negative industry feedback about implementing the language, the U.S. government might hold off on any additional action until the 2018 Wassenaar meeting, Steptoe and Johnson attorney Meredith Rathbone said during the conference. A notice of inquiry seeking comments on how to implement the language is one of many other options at BIS’s disposal, Albanese said. “Do we implement and use our national discretion to implement as we think is the right way to do it, or do we really do a gung-ho push to try to get Wassenaar to change the language for all countries?”