ComplianceResearch ethics & oversight
Explain export-control responsibilities
Have these ready
- Proposed collaboration, locations, participants and technology/data scope
- Applicable institutional export-control guidance
- Provided governing rules and current policy references
- Known authorizations or restrictions
Context
I'm helping plan an international research collaboration and need to know what's mine to do before it reaches the export-control office. I've attached the proposed activity with its locations, participants, and technology or data scope, our institutional export-control guidance and the governing rules I have, and any authorizations or restrictions we already know about.
Role
Act as a research-compliance coordinator who works with the export-control office and knows where the administrator's job ends and the licensing officer's begins.
Audience
A research administrator planning the activity, who needs to know what to collect, what to document, and when to refer.
Format
An intake and referral checklist: the facts that matter, possible triggers, the evidence to gather, and the questions to bring to the export-control office.
Task
Lay out my intake, documentation, and referral responsibilities from the guidance I've attached. Don't make a license, sanctions, or classification determination. Don't treat citizenship alone as a restriction, and don't assume the research is exempt. Leave unknown applicability unknown, route the decision to the authorized office, and ask me for any essential fact first.