special report on multilateral export controls

special report on multilateral export controls Sec. 117. Not later than 12 months after the enactment of this section, the President shall submit to the Congress a special report on multilateral export controls in which the United States participates pursuant to the Export Administration Act of 1969 and pursuant to the Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951. The purpose of such special report shall be to assess the effectiveness of such multi-lateral export controls and to formulate specific proposals for increasing the effectiveness of such controls. That special report shall include— (1) the, current list of commodities controlled for export by agreement of the group known as the coordinating Committee of the Consultative Group (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Committee”) and an analysis of the process of reviewing such list and of the changes which result from such review; (2) data on and analysis of requests for exceptions to such list; (3) a description and an analysis of the process by which decisions are made by the Committee on whether or not to grant such requests; (4) an analysis of the uniformity of interpretation and enforcement by the participating countries of the export controls agreed to by the Committee (including controls over the re-export of such commodities from countries not participating in the Committee), and information on each case where such participating countries have acted contrary to the United States interpretation of the policy of the Committee, including United States representations to such countries and the response of such countries; (5) an analysis of the problem of exports of advanced technology by countries not participating in the Committee, including such exports by subsidiaries or affiliates of United States businesses in such countries; (6) an analysis of the effectiveness of any procedures employed, in cases in which an exception for a listed commodity is granted by the Committee, to determine whether there has been compliance with any conditions on the use of the excepted commodity which were a basis for the exception: and 91 STAT. 243 (7) detailed recommendations for improving, through formalization or other means, the effectiveness of multilateral export controls, including specific recommendations for the development of more precise criteria and procedures for collective export decisions and for the development of more detailed and formal enforcement mechanisms to assure more uniform interpretation of and compliance with such criteria, procedures, and decisions by all countries participating in such multilateral export controls.