corona-virus
11 June 2020
DDTC invites comments on ITAR provisions during Covid-19 emergency
The US Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (‘DDTC’) is inviting comments regarding the temporary suspensions, modifications, and exceptions to several provisions of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (‘ITAR’) taken during the Covid-19 crisis.
‘The suspensions, modifications, and exceptions are to ensure continuity of operations within the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) and among entities registered with DDTC pursuant to the ITAR during the current SARS-COV2 public health emergency,’ the DDTC said in a statement.
The DDTC said it is limiting comments ‘to the efficacy and termination dates of the current suspensions, modifications, and exceptions, and whether additional measures should be considered in response to specific difficulties in operating conditions under the regulations that have arisen as a direct result of the crisis.’
DDTC said that it will consider comments on:
- The efficacy of each of the temporary suspensions, modifications, and exceptions to the ITAR on the operating environments of the regulated community members during the Covid-19 emergency.
- Expiration dates of suspensions, modifications, and exceptions to the ITAR – for each expiration date, is the period of efficacy sufficient, or should DDTC consider an extension of the expiration date, and why?
- Are there additional temporary suspensions, modifications, or exceptions to the ITAR that DDTC should consider in response to specific difficulties in operating conditions under the regulations that have arisen for the regulated community as a direct result of the crisis, and why?
Comments are due by 25 June 2020.
