IRELAND AND DTI

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 17:03 2/07/1998 -0400, nigel hickson <nigelhickson@compuserve.com> wrote:

>Ireland:  As the text (which someone found) makes clear; Ireland is member
>of Wassenaar and hence is bound by controls on crypto.  Also it is a member
>of EU and hence the Dual Use Good Regulation applies.  Latter is directly
>applicable which (and Mr Bohm may correct me here) means it applies to all
>people exporting from Ireland irrespective of what Government says.

Nigel may well be right that the regulations are directly applicable, but I
am doubtful that even directly applicable EU regulations can create UK law
criminal offences - this would be done, I would expect, by implementing UK
regulations.  But this a fairly minor issue; more significant is the
freedom of governments within Wassenaar to form their own views about what
to license and on what conditions.  Here I thought there was room for
different views, and it may be that Ireland will take a different view from
that of the UK on its licensing regime.

	Regards,

		Nicholas Bohm

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