UK ECJU ‘substantially amends’ information security licences to include China, HK, Macau
The United Kingdom’s Export Control Joint Unit (‘ECJU’) has said that it has ‘substantially amended’ two licences:
• Open general export licence information security items – from December 2019, and
• Open general export licence information security items
It said: ‘The purpose of these open general export licences (OGELs) is to allow the export of “low risk” information security items deploying encryption to a wide range of destinations. ‘The OGELs have been amended to include China, Hong Kong and Macao as permitted destinations although this has been balanced by a reduced list of permitted items.
‘All items specified in Schedule 1 of the new licence must only use:
- standard encryption algorithms that have been approved or adopted by recognised international standards bodies (examples: 3GPP, ETSI, GSMA, IEEE, IETF, ISO, ITU, TIA)
- any cryptographic functionality used by the item cannot be easily changed by the user
‘Items in schedule 1 must not have an open cryptographic interface. In addition, the requirements for pre-export reporting, that must be completed prior to the first export of each item, and additional technical data reporting have been simplified.’
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