# Revisions to Definitions in the Export Administration Regulations
> **Bureau of Industry and Security** · Final rule. · Published 2016-06-03 · Effective 2016-09-01 · 81 FR 35586
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-12734
- **Category:** bis-export-control
- **Sub-agency:** Bureau of Industry and Security
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 35586
- **CFR reference:** 15 CFR 734
- **Publication date:** 2016-06-03
- **Effective date:** 2016-09-01
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. 141016858-6004-02
## Abstract

This final rule is part of the Administration's Export Control Reform (ECR) Initiative. The Initiative will enhance U.S. national and economic security, facilitate compliance with export controls, update the controls, and further the goal of reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens on U.S. exporters. As part of this effort, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), in publishing this rule, makes revisions to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to include certain definitions to enhance clarity and consistency with terms also found in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which is administered by the Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), or that DDTC expects to publish in proposed rules. This final rule also revises the Scope part of the EAR to update and clarify application of controls to electronically transmitted and stored technology and software, including by way of cloud computing. DDTC is concurrently publishing comparable amendments to certain ITAR definitions for the same reasons. Finally, this rule makes conforming changes to related provisions.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/06/03/2016-12734/revisions-to-definitions-in-the-export-administration-regulations)
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