§2799c — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The President must notify the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at least 15 days before sending any defense articles under section 2799b(a), using the usual reprogramming notice rules. By February 1 each year, the President must give those two committees and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees a report that lists all U.S. transfers under 2799b(a) from the prior calendar year, explains how they meet the purposes in section 2799(1)–(3), and provides country-by-country lists of CFE-limited armament transfers by NATO/CFE countries (except the United States) and by Eastern Group states.

Title 22, §2799c

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(a)Not less than 15 days before transferring any defense articles pursuant to section 2799b(a) of this title, the President shall notify the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate in accordance with the procedures applicable to reprogramming notifications pursuant to section 2394–1 of this title.

(b)Not later than February 1 each year, the President shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report that—

(1)lists all transfers made to each recipient NATO/CFE country by the United States under section 2799b(a) of this title during the preceding calendar year;

(2)describes how those transfers further the purposes described in paragraphs (1) through (3) of section 2799 of this title; and

(3)lists, on a country-by-country basis, all transfers to another country of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the CFE Treaty—

(A)by each NATO/CFE country (other than the United States) in implementing the CFE Treaty, and

(B)by each country of the Eastern Group of States Parties in implementing the CFE Treaty.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1993—Subsec. (b)(3)(B). Pub. L. 103–199 substituted “country of the Eastern Group of States Parties” for “Warsaw Pact country”.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of Defense by Memorandum of President of the United States, Feb. 13, 1992, 57 F.R. 6663, set out as a note under section 2799b of this title.

§2799c Notifications and reports to Congress