Export control and end use
Control lists, end use and licenses for recovery and protection systems — and which frameworks actually bind a European buyer.
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Export control and end use
Whether a recovery or protection system may be delivered is not settled by the purchase contract. It is settled by the control list, the end use and the license of the exporting state.
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The Wassenaar Arrangement
The Wassenaar Arrangement puts no export rule directly into force. It supplies the lists that the participating states feed into their national export law.
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ITAR explained for Europe
ITAR is US law. It binds US defense articles, technical data of US origin and US persons — and it reaches across the border wherever such elements sit inside a system.
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DFARS and US procurement
DFARS, the Berry Amendment and the Buy American Act are United States procurement law. They work through contract clauses in US awards — not through export law and not through where a supplier is based.