Registration

Chair’s Opening Remarks

The Changing Landscape of International Developments: Impact of the New U.S. Administration and Brexit on the Trade Compliance Community

• The impact of US Foreign Policy following the new US Administration
• An outline of the changes that will need to be closely observed following the UK Brexit
• The impact of Brexit on EU sanctions Policy

Latest Key Developments on Changes in Trade Compliance in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

• The EU approach to export controls
• Reviewing the new European Commission proposal for modernisation of EU export control policy
• What are the issues for Nordic agencies?
• How do the Nordics governmental bodies interpret EU classifications?

Morning Refreshments Break

Navigating Iran: Assessing the Benefits and Risks of Re-entering

• Scope of doing business in Iran, future outlook
• Due Diligence and preparing for potential future changes
• How to prepare to enter or expand business in Iran
• Comparing and contrasting the US and EU view on Iran
• Key regulations to consider to ensure compliance with the EU
• Assessing the possibility of sanction snap back and how to proceed
• Where are the key areas that you should focus your due diligence and screening plans?
• Maintaining key government alignment with the US and Iran in a volatile environment

Networking Lunch

Isolating US Legal Entities and US Personnel: How to Avoid Breaches with US Export Controls and Sanctions Regulations

• Key risks for US Persons and US involvement
• How to identify who qualifies as a US person within your company
• What are your obligations for isolation of third party US citizens?

Investigating Potential Trade Compliance Violations in Export Controls or Sanctions

• Knowing the factors to consider when deciding whether to investigate internally or contract external counsel
• Who should conduct the investigation?
• What should be the timelines for an investigation?
• What are the procedures to follow when investigating?
• What to look for and the resulting potential penalties
• How to know whether to submit a voluntary self disclosure
  • How to submit a voluntary self-disclosure

Afternoon Refreshments

Death of a Salesman – How Compliance Dominates the Supply Chain

• Digitalisation is moving the need for resources from sales to compliance
• Rules and regulations are meant to help markets, but are becoming barriers
• Solutions need to come from within the supply chains
• Every organisation strives to solve their own problems but compliance is a joint effort.
• Results even at a minimum implementation will be evident and force changes in the rest of the supply chain

Benchmarking: What are the Optimum Trade Compliance Programmes and Systems You Need to have in Place when Operating in Russia

• Clarifying US and EU sanction rules for Russia
• Comparing and contrasting U.S. and EU regulations on Russia
• Risk Factors – establishing risk sensitive compliance procedures
• How to know which products are relevant to the US Sanctions and whether you are doing indirect or direct business with a sanctions entity
• Future outlook on Russia sanctions in light of the EU and new US administration
• Ensuring bank compliance and due diligence
• Arranging compliance when you are using subcontractor or souring components subject to export controls.
• How to cover due diligence on end users
• The legal obligations and risks to not ensuring a compliant supply chain

Networking

Registration

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Managing Reputational Risk in a Volatile Trade Compliance Environment

• How to deal with and maintain agreements with key governments which have volatile relationships with each other
• What are the main ways that yours and your company’s reputation can be put at risk in trade compliance environment
• How to shield yourself and your company from reputational risk
• Managing reputational damage in the worst case scenario

Achieving Export Controls Compliance When Exporting Encrypted Products

• What is controlled under US and EU export controls?
  • Identifying encryption controls under the EAR and EU rules
• What is decontrolled under US and EU export controls?
• How to interpret the Cryptography Note
• The similarities and difference between EU and US licensing
• How to comply with export controls when exporting products containing or using data encryption
• What is new and what is coming up in encryption controls

Morning Refreshments

Roundtable Clinics:

The Roundtable Clinics provide the unique opportunity for groups to come together to discuss and benchmark on the key issues you are facing as a trade compliance professional over coffee and pastries. Each participant can choose to join two out of the following topics.

Calculating the EAR De Minimis Rule for the Export and Re-export of Dual Use Goods

Practical Tools for Getting the Correct Data from your Clients and End Users

Re-exporting of Repairs

How to Train on Export Controls and Sanctions:

Roundtable Clinics:

Each participant can choose to join two out of the following topics.

Calculating the EAR De Minimis Rule for the Export and Re-export of Dual Use Goods

Practical Tools for Getting the Correct Data from your Clients and End Users

Re-exporting of Repairs

How to Train on Export Controls and Sanctions: Teaching your Company and Colleagues

Effective tools to Managing Sanctions Screening and Due Diligence Including Screening Customers Demo: Showcasing the tools of Screening

Session Partner

• Key extra territorial regulations from the US
• How to know what is applicable for a European or Nordic Country
• Best practices for complying with US screening against OFAC
• Screening and obtaining necessary information
• When to escalate red flags
• Key considerations to knowing your customer
• Navigating the Initial screening of customers to continued monitoring
• How to best use screen tools to capture prohibitive parties first time around before a violation

Refreshment Break

US Re-Export Controls 101: Ensuring Compliance within your Company Programme

• The US Jurisdiction for re-export controls
  • How to comply with the rules governing the re- export pf US origin goods and software
  • What are the exceptions for US origin items?
  • Export of foreign produced items manufactured or produced from U.S. origin technology or technical data
  • Export of foreign produced items manufactured or produced from U.S.-origin technology or technical data to terroristsupporting countries
• When are European exporters subject to the EAR US re-export controls?
• Procurement and manufacturing operations: how to make sure as a European company you are relatively free to export to Iran and take appropriate care to not engage in illegal re-export of U.S. origin controlled items
• Who can apply for a re- export license?
  • What are the licensee responsibilities?
  • What are the license exceptions?

Conference Ends