> **POLAND**
>
> 1994 Poland **Symposium for Foreign Export Control Officials,  March
> 28 - April 1, 1994**, for 24 export control government officials from
> 14 nations: Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia,
> Hungary, Kazakstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia,
> Slovakia and Ukraine, for interagency sessions on export control
> issues. The program was in two parts: attendance at the BXA Update
> \'94 Conference, held on March 29 - 30 on export administration
> regulations, licensing policy, and U.S. export control law; and a
> special Foreign Visitors Export Control Program featuring a technical
> forum at the Commerce Department. The program was designed to provide
> a basic introduction and outline to the essential elements of an
> international multi-purpose export control system. A panel of
> Commerce\'s Technical Advisor Committee (TAC) representatives
> presented industry views on U.S. export controls.
>
> 1994 Poland As a direct result of progress in **adopting export
> control programs**, Commerce removed Poland, the Czech Republic and
> Slovakia from its controlled country list.
>
> 1995 Poland In December 1994 (FY95), at the invitation of the Ministry
> of Foreign Economic Relations, BXA participated in a **Government
> Interagency Export Control Program** in Poland that focused on
> improving coordination procedures between Poland\'s various export
> control ministries. Approximately 30 officials representing seven
> agencies and ministries attended.
>
> 1995 Poland In January 1995, BXA automation experts met in Paris with
> Norwegian and Polish officials to begin work on an **automated export
> license tracking system for Poland** which will eventually serve as
> the model for automated systems in the Baltic countries of Lithuania,
> Latvia, and Estonia.
>
> 1995 Poland In February 1995, BXA officials met with government
> officials in Poland to discuss the **enforcement aspects** of
> Poland\'s export control system.
>
> 1995 Poland In March 1995, BXA automation experts began a concerted
> interagency development effort of a **Model Export Control Information
> System (MECIS)** in conjunction with the licensing authorities in
> Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
>
> 1995 Poland In March 1995, a BXA team participated in an **Export
> Control and Nonproliferation Seminar** in Budapest, Hungary.
> Representatives from 12 Central European and Baltic states (Albania,
> Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
> Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) attended this
> seminar. The U.S. and Hungary co-hosted this seminar.
>
> 1995 Poland In June 1995, a BXA representative was the keynote speaker
> at **Export Control Seminars** in Poland for key industry executives
> and Customs officials.
>
> 1995 Poland In July 1995, Polish officials attended seminars in
> Washington to discuss the **licensing of chemical and nuclear
> products**. In addition, legal, licensing and automation specialists
> from Poland\'s Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations spent a week in
> training with their counterparts in BXA and OCC.
>
> 1995 Poland In September 1995, BXA and OCC experts traveled to Poland
> to conduct additional on-site training for Polish export control and
> customs officials on **legal, licensing and enforcement topics**.
>
> 1995 Poland In August 1995, BXA export licensing automation experts
> again met with Norwegian and Polish officials to review and finalize
> the **specifications for the automated export control information
> system** for Poland and the Baltic countries, MECIS.
>
> 1996 Poland In July 1996, BXA hosted its **Third Annual Symposium for
> Export Control Officials in Washington, DC ** for 37 senior export
> control government officials from 16 nations \-- Albania, Belarus,
> Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia,
> Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and
> Ukraine.
>
> 1996 Poland In July 1996, BXA automation experts participated in the
> testing and acceptance phase of the **Model Export Control Information
> System** in Warsaw, Poland. The system was accepted and placed in a
> limited operational status. BXA automation experts continued to
> support modification of the system in order to provide a platform with
> broader applications.
>
> 1999 Poland **Authorware Software Training Automation Program,
> Washington, DC, February, 1999**. As part of an undertaking to assist
> Poland in improving its systems automation efforts, BXA trained
> automation experts in how to modify and customize their countries\'
> Internal Compliance Programs (ICP) using Authorware software.  This
> enables Poland to make modifications in their ICP to reflect changes
> in the laws, regulations, and policies of their export control
> regimes.

1999 Poland **Conference on Export Control Cooperation Between Business
and Government Administration, Warsaw, Poland, May, 1999**. BXA led a
delegation of U.S. officials and U.S. industry representatives to a
conference organized by the Polish Chamber of Commerce in cooperation
with the Department of Export Control of the Polish Ministry of Economy,
and BXA. The Polish Deputy Prime Minister attended the conference, as
did some 350 Polish industry representatives. This was the first
occasion where both Polish industry and government focused on export
control cooperation. During the conference, the U.S. delegation provided
assistance to Poland for developing an industry-government partnership
in export control and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
and deployed a Polish language version of the U.S.-developed Internal
Control Program (ICP) for Polish munitions and dual-use industry
sectors.