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1. BIS Eliminates Reporting Requirements for Certain Encryption Items Effective March 29, 2021, BIS eliminated or reduced reporting requirements for certain encryption items. For encryption source code and beta test software that is made publicly available, companies will no longer have to notify BIS unless the cryptography used is “non-standard.” Only source code that implements proprietary or unpublished encryption must be reported to the U.S. government before release from control under the Export Administration regulations. Additionally, most “mass market” encryption products will...
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In response to a variety of activities allegedly undertaken by Russia, the U.S. Government has imposed a series of additional sanctions and export control measures since early March. Collectively, the March and April sanctions take a variety of forms, including the suspension of entry into the United States and the denial of visas to certain non-U.S. citizens, denial of government credit and financial assistance, cessation of all foreign military financing, export controls changes, expand...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 29, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced two settlements of potential civil liability with two companies over their apparent violations of its regulations. The companies, MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. (MoneyGram) and SAP SE (SAP), operate in sectors of the economy—payments and software—that present unique sanctions risks and compliance challenges. The two settlements highlight many of those risks, such as the reliance on third-party resellers, the integration of...