The Bureau of Industry and Security
Outreach and Educational Services Division

Cosponsored by: Georgia District Export Council

"How to Develop an Export Management and Compliance Program
August 15, 2013

Atlanta Executive Conference Center
Atlanta, Georgia

How to Develop an Export Management and Compliance Program

Developing and maintaining an export management and compliance program is highly recommended to ensure that export transactions comply with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and to prevent export control violations.

This one-day workshop provides an overview of the steps a company may take to implement an internal Export Management and Compliance Program. Agenda topics include guidance on how to establish an Export Management and Compliance Program; strategies to improve your company’s compliance program; how to avoid common compliance errors; and how to build a solid framework for your company’s compliance program. This program includes small group discussion, hands on exercises and compliance peer networking. This program will be led by senior export compliance specialists from the Bureau of Industry and Security.

Note: The information presented in this program is not a legal requirement of the Export Administration Regulations. It is intended to give informational advice and guidance based on industry best practices in the field of compliance.

Recommended prerequisite: Essentials of Export Controls or Complying with U.S. Export Controls or equivalent experience

About the Instructors

The instructors are experienced export policy specialists personnel from BIS's Washington, D.C. headquarters. The instructors will be available throughout the seminar to answer your questions on how the export regulations affect the export activities of your organization or client.

Location/time

The program will be held at the Atlanta Executive Conference Center, 1170 Peachtree Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30309. Registration and continental breakfast will begin at 7:30am on August 15, 2013. The program will begin at 8:30am and end at 5:00pm.

Accommodations

A special conference rate of $164 plus tax (single/double) room has been arranged with the Marriott Suites Midtown Atlanta, 35 14^th Street, NE, Atlanta, GA 40202. (404) 876-8888 and a special conference rate of $182 plus tax (single/double) room has been arranged with the Lowes Atlanta Hotel, 1065 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, GA 40202. (404) 745-5000. Please mention AMA to receive the special conference rates.

Registration

The registration fee for the "How to Develop an Export Management and Compliance Programs" is $200.00 per person. (If you are attending the Complying with the U.S. Export Controls program on August 13th-14th, the fee is $590.00 for both). The fee includes continental breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches and materials for the entire seminar. Registration fees are nonrefundable. Substitutions may be made at any time. For additional information, please contact Eric Johnson by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

To guarantee placement for the BIS seminar: Click here to register.  If registering and paying by check, make your check payable to Georgia District Export Council and mail to 75th Street, NW, Suite 1060, Atlanta, GA  30308.

Other Questions?

For more information or questions on the topics to be covered, please call BIS's Outreach and Educational Services Division at (202) 482-6031 or by email.

The Bureau of Industry and Security Presents

Update 2013

July 23-25, 2013

Registration Information

Registration Fee:

The registration fee for Update 2013 is $1,100.00 and includes breakfasts and lunches.  It also includes a Networking Reception on July 23rd and an Exhibitor Networking Reception on July 24th. 

Payment Method

Online registration is required regardless of payment method.  You may pay by credit card (M/C, VISA, and American Express) or by check.  Checks should be made out to the BIS Seminar Trust Fund 96B2308.   All checks must be received by BIS on or before July 12, 2013.   Checks must be sent by courier to:  U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1099D, Washington, DC 20230.  Attn:  Christine Wheeler
                                                                            
Refund/Cancellation Policy

A refund, less a $50 administrative charge, is available for cancellations made on or before Monday, July 8, 2013.  No refunds are available after this date.

Cancellation requests must be made by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  Please put “Cancellation Request” in the subject line.

Transferring Your Registration Authorization

If you would like to transfer your registration to someone else in your organization, you must receive prior approval from BIS.  Transfer requests must be made by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., on or before Friday, July 12.  Please put "Registration Code Transfer Request" in the subject line along with the new contact information, including email address.  BIS will then send an email confirmation to both you and the new registrant with registration instructions.  Registrations may NOT be transferred outside of your organization.  Registrations may NOT be resold.

Important Deadlines

July   8 - last day to cancel your registration
July 12 - last day to transfer your registration
July 12 - check payments must be received by BIS

Questions?

If you have questions regarding Update 2013, please e-mail us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The Bureau of Industry and Security
Presents

Update 2013

July 23-25, 2013

Exhibitor Registration Information

Registration Fee:

The registration fee for Update 2013 Exhibit Hall is $3,125.00 and includes one full conference registration, two passes for the Networking Reception on July 23, breakfasts, breaks and the Exhibitor Networking Reception on July 24. 

Payment Method

Online registration is required regardless of payment method.  You may pay by credit card (M/C, VISA, and American Express) or by check.  Checks should be made out to the BIS Seminar Trust Fund 96B2308.   All checks must be received by BIS on or before July 12, 2013.   Checks must be sent by courier to: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1099D, Washington, DC 20230.  Attn:  Christine Wheeler
                                                                            
Refund/Cancellation Policy

A refund, less a $50 administrative charge, is available for cancellations made on or before Monday, July 8, 2013.  No refunds are available after this date.

Cancellation requests must be made by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  Please put “Cancellation Request” in the subject line.

Transferring Your Registration Authorization

If you would like to allow someone else from your organization to register in your place, you must receive prior approval from BIS.  Transfer requests must be made by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., on or before Friday, July 12.  Please put "Registration Code Transfer Request" in the subject line along with the new contact information, including email address.  BIS will then send an email confirmation to both you and the new registrant with registration instructions.  Registrations may NOT be transferred outside of your organization.  Registrations may NOT be resold.

Important Deadlines

July  8  - last day to cancel your registration
July 12 - last day to transfer your registration
July 12 - check payments must be received by BIS

Questions?

If you have questions regarding Update 2013, please e-mail us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Register Now

The Bureau of Industry and Security
Presents

Update 2013

July 23-25, 2013

Program Summary
(Subject to Change)

Plenaries:

Tuesday, July 23
Welcome and Opening Remarks
                   
Lunch Keynote Speaker
                            
Wednesday, July 24
Interagency Panel

Lunch Keynote Speaker

Export Enforcement Panel

Breakout Sessions:

Tuesday, July 23 - Wednesday, July 24

Aerospace:  Jurisdiction and Regulatory Changes Panel
This session will focus on the Initial Implementation of Export Control Reform rule provisions affecting aircraft, gas turbine engines, and related items, with a focus on the Commerce Control List’s new Export Control Classification Numbers 9_610 and 9_619. 

Anatomy of an Investigation
The Office of Export Enforcement will take you through a full criminal investigation.  We will bring you from case inception and development all the way through prosecution and final disposition.  This forum will allow exporters to see and understand the complexities and differences between a crime and an administrative violation.

Military Vehicles, Vessels, and Miscellaneous Equipment Rule
This panel will discuss any additional final Export Control Reform rules and the most recent proposed regulations involving these categories of items.

Export Control Reform – Changes for Shippers, and Automated Export System Changes
This panel will discuss recent changes being made to the Automated Export System (AES) as a result of the Initial Implementation Rule for Export Control Reform.  The panel will also discuss the evolution of AES to reflect changes to the Foreign Trade Regulations of the Bureau of the Census.  The material will be of particular interest to exporters who will be shipping items subject to the Export Administration Regulations.  Topics will include EAR parts 758.1 and 758.2 regarding changes to BIS's AES filing and post-departure filing requirements and what specific AES changes may impact software providers and companies with in-house programs that interface with AES.  Attendees will also hear presentations from a statistical (Census), and enforcement (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) perspective.

Export Control Reform – License Exceptions
The first final rules have been published implementing the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative.  The objective of the Export Control Reform Initiative is to protect and enhance U.S. national security interests, by fundamentally reforming the export control system.  Changes to many of the Export Administration Regulations license exceptions which will be effective October 15 will facilitate the realignments being made in the Commerce Control List and the International Traffic      in Arms Regulations of the Department of State.  This session will discuss implementation of these changes. 

Export Control Reform – New Order of Review and the “600 series”
The first final rules have been published implementing the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative.  The objective of the Export Control Reform Initiative is to protect and enhance U.S. national security interests, by fundamentally reforming the export control system.  The new “600 series” of Export Control Classification Numbers within the Export Administration Regulations allows for identification, classification, and control of items transferred from the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List.  This session will discuss progress to date in this effort. 

Export Control Reform – “Specially Designed”
The first final rules have been published implementing the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative.  The objective of the Export Control Reform Initiative is to protect and enhance U.S. national security interests, by fundamentally reforming the export control system.  The new definition of “specially designed” which will be effective October 15 in the Export Administration Regulations corresponds with a new definition in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations of the Department of State.  This session will discuss implementation of that definition. 

Export Control Reform – Transition Issues
State Department and BIS experts will discuss the Initial Implementation of Export Control Reform rules, with emphasis on the State Department transition plan, and reexport issues.

Meeting the Deemed Export Challenge
The BIS Deemed Export requirements continues to be of strong interest for companies, research and development centers, universities and laboratories that hire foreign students and scientists working on technologies and equipment that are export controlled.  The U.S. Government continues to receive numerous petitions for skilled foreign worker (H-1B) visas.  The panel will address issues relating to:  the effect of export control reform on deemed exports; the control of emerging technology; guidance on  “use technology” and " fundamental research"; export control requirements for government contracts with industry and universities; enforcement of deemed export violations; visa requirements; sought after technologies; major deemed export country destinations; and deemed export compliance programs.

Nuclear Technology Policy, Licensing Issues and Trends
This interagency panel will discuss the status of U.S. export controls pertaining to nuclear related items.  The U.S. maintains export controls on nuclear-related items under the authority of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978 (NNPA) to further U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy.  The U.S. carries out its nuclear nonproliferation obligations through its support of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime which entails membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and Zangger Committee (ZC).  BIS administers export licensing requirements for items that have significance for nuclear explosive purposes and other items that may be used in sensitive nuclear activities.  In addition the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission controls the export of items related to nuclear reactor vessels and the Department of Energy administers export controls for technology related to the production of special nuclear materials.

Regulatory Review
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is currently undertaking a retrospective review of its regulations to determine how they may be clarified or streamlined, and is also formulating  new regulations to keep abreast of changes in the multilateral export control regimes.  In this session, the staff of BIS’s Regulatory Policy Division will review the regulations that have been published and those under development which are not directly related to Export Control Reform.  Normally, this will include regulatory changes to conform to Wassenaar Arrangement decisions.

Sanctions
Interagency representative from BIS, the Department of State's Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation (SPI), and the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will discuss export licensing policy with regard to countries, entities, and individuals subject to sanctions.  Panel members will address sanctions within the context of U.S. foreign policy and national security concerns and provide an overview of recent changes to licensing policy. 

Satellites
This session will discuss the proposed rule published May 24, 2013 dealing with how spacecraft and related items would be controlled on the Commerce Control List (CCL).  Such items would be controlled by new Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) 9A515, 9B515, 9D515, and 9E515 proposed by this rule and existing ECCNs.

Use of the Entity List Today:  IED Counter-Proliferation Efforts
As one of the proscribed parties lists administered by BIS, the Entity List is a flexible tool that facilitates the U.S. Government’s effort to counter the ongoing threat to U.S. soldiers and marines and coalition forces in Afghanistan caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).  In adding persons proliferating IEDs to the Entity List, the U.S. Government highlights these persons’ nefarious activities and is better able to coordinate multilateral action against them.  This panel’s speakers will provide an overview of the Entity List in the context of the evolution of BIS’s IED counter-proliferation efforts, and highlight the military’s experience with counter-IED efforts.  The panel session will conclude by opening the floor to questions and answers, whether specific to IEDs or about the Entity List in general. 

Special Sessions and Activities:

Tuesday, July 23 - Thursday, July 25

BIS Online Services
Learn about online services and online training provided through the BIS Website.  The staff of BIS's Office of the Chief Information Officer will be there to demonstrate and answer any questions pertaining to the SNAP-R Online Registration and Self-Management System and SNAP-R enhancements.  Staff from the Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division will be on hand to demonstrate AESDirect and AESPcLink – the free, widely used systems that allow exporters and their authorized filers to report export information electronically.  In addition,  you may explore the electronic Export Administration Regulations (e-cfr) hosted on the Government Printing Office’s website and learn helpful tools and search techniques.

SNAP-R Introduction for New Users
The Outreach and Educational Services Division will periodically present a live demonstration of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s on-line electronic registration and application system for license applications and commodity classification requests.  BIS personnel will assist new users to complete the registration form and activate a new account.  This session may be especially useful for exporters new to the Commerce Control List.

Internet Café
An internet café will be open to provide internet access and printers.  Program materials may be downloaded for printing on the BIS web site at www.bis.doc.gov to save on the provided flash drive or to print.

Exhibit Hall
The Exhibit Hall will be open throughout the entire conference, Tuesday, July 23-Thursday, July 25.  Check the conference agenda for hours.  Private sector and U.S. Government exhibitors will be on hand to present the services they offer to help companies meet various export control responsibilities and marketing goals.  Such services include global logistics management, compliance strategies, and education and counseling on international trade management and regulations.  Invited U.S. Government exhibitors include Bureau of Industry and Security’s Outreach and Educational Services and Treaty Compliance Divisions, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Commercial Service, Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee Export Pavilion, Bureau of the Census, and the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, Inc.

Thursday, July 25

Roundtables and Open Forums

Throughout the day there will be roundtable and open forums designed to permit attendees to move about, listen, engage in discussion, and interact with colleagues and government representatives on several important topics.  The open forums will run from 9:00am-11:00am, and then continue from 1:00pm-3:30pm.  Check the agenda for exact times and locations.

Roundtable Discussions

A full day of specific topic roundtables will give attendees the opportunity to meet and network with officials of BIS and other agencies as well as export control peers in an informal setting.  There will be four (4) one-hour sessions throughout the day from 9:00am-10:00am; 10:30am-11:30am; 1:00pm-2:00pm; and 2:30pm-3:30pm.  You may participate in all sessions but, to provide sufficient opportunities for all, you are required to select a different table for each session.  There will be program material to identify the topic of discussions and facilitator for each table.  The tables will be numbered and this event will be on a first come, first served basis