Regulations govern not only the physical transportation of the goods or information outside of the United States, but also electronic disclosure of information and disclosure of information or delivery of goods to foreign nationals within the United States. The regulations also vary depending on the intermediate and final destinations of the items to be exported. The other members include Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Exports to these countries, and other industrialized countries friendly to the United States are relatively simple. The CCL is reviewed each year.
All software is technical data.
Technical data generally available to the public may be released to all foreign nationals. For example, this would permit the disclosure of public data at open conferences, lectures, trade shows, and other events open to the public, and data available from libraries. In it, the recipient makes certain promises about handling the technical data, including agreement to restrictions about providing it to others. There are some exceptions to the written re-assurance requirement, such as for software updates and bug fixes, certain mass market software and sales technical data. The export laws also include many record keeping requirements.