ANNUAL REPORTS ON IMPROVING EXPORT CONTROL MECHANISMS AND ON MILITARY ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 1324. ANNUAL REPORTS ON IMPROVING EXPORT CONTROL MECHANISMS AND ON MILITARY ASSISTANCE. (a) Joint Reports by Secretaries of State and Commerce.— Not later than April 1 of each of 1996 and 1997, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to Congress a joint report, prepared in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, relating to United States export-control mechanisms. Each such report shall set forth measures to be taken to strengthen United States export-control mechanisms, including— (1) steps being taken by each Secretary (A) to share on a regular basis the export licensing watchlist of that Secretary’s department with the other Secretary, and (B) to incorporate the export licensing watchlist data received from the other Secretary into the watchlist of that Secretary’s department; (2) steps being taken by each Secretary to incorporate into the watchlist of that Secretary’s department similar data from systems maintained by the Department of Defense and the United States Customs Service; and 110 STAT. 481 (3) a description of such further measures to be taken to strengthen United States export-control mechanisms as the Secretaries consider to be appropriate. (b) Reports by Inspectors General.— (1) Not later than April 1 of each of 1996 and 1997, the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce shall each submit to Congress a report providing that official’s evaluation of the effectiveness during the preceding year of the export licensing watchlist screening process of that official’s department. The reports shall be submitted in both a classified and unclassified version. (2) Each report of an Inspector General under paragraph (1) shall (with respect to that official’s department)— (A) set forth the number of export licenses granted to parties on the export licensing watchlist; (B) set forth the number of end-use checks performed with respect to export licenses granted to parties on the export licensing watchlist the previous year; (C) assess the screening process used in granting an export license when an applicant is on the export licensing watchlist; and (D) assess the extent to which the export licensing watchlist contains all relevant information and parties required by statute or regulation. (c) Annual Military Assistance Report.— The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by inserting after section 654 (22 U.S.C. 2414) the following new section;