Implementation of the 2008 Australia Group (AG) Intersessional Decisions; Additions to the List of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Agency: Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce.
Volume: 74, Number: 127
Date: 2009-07-06
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is publishing this
final rule to amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to
implement the 2008 Australia Group (AG) intersessional decisions, which
were recommended at the Intersessional Implementation Meeting held at
The Hague on October 8-9, 2008, and adopted under the AG intersessional
silent approval procedures in December 2008. This final rule amends the
EAR to reflect changes to the AG ``Control List of Dual-Use Chemical
Manufacturing Facilities and Equipment and Related Technology and
Software'' affecting valves and toxic gas monitoring systems.
Consistent with these changes, this rule expands the EAR controls on
valves to include those having contact surfaces lined with certain
ceramic materials. In addition, this rule clarifies the types of
dedicated detecting components that are subject to the EAR controls on
toxic gas monitoring systems and expands these controls to include
dedicated software for such systems.
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