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ENTITY LISTQ: Which government agency controls this list?A: This list is controlled by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which is part of the Commerce Department. Q: What is the Entity List? A: It is a list of parties whose presence in a transaction can trigger a license requirement under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The list specifies the license requirements that apply to each listed party. It was established in February 1997 to inform the public of entities whose activities imposed a risk of diverting exported and re-exported items into programs related to weapons of mass destruction. Since then, the grounds for listing an entity on Entity List have expanded to include entities sanctioned by the State Department for which United States foreign policy goals are served by imposing additional license requirements on exports and re-exports to those entities. Q: What are the license requirements that the Entity List imposes? A: The Entity List specifies the license requirements that it imposes on each listed entity. Those license requirements are independent of and in addition to any license requirements imposed elsewhere in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Q: What is the license application review policy? A: The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) evaluates license applications to any listed entity according to the policy stated in the "License Review Policy" column for that entity. If there is more than one license requirement for a particular transaction, the exporter would submit only one license application, but BIS would evaluate it according to the licensing policies of all applicable license requirements. If any applicable policy required denial, BIS would deny the application, even if the others provided for approval. Q: Where is the Entity List published? A: The Entity List is available on the Government Printing Office EAR website. | |