22 U.S.C. § 2799c: Notifications and reports…

Summary

The President must notify the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations at least 15 days before transferring any defense articles under section 2799b(a). That notice must follow the same reprogramming notification process used under section 2394–1. By February 1 each year, the President must send a report to the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Armed Services and the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services. The report must list all transfers made under section 2799b(a) during the prior year, explain how those transfers meet the goals in section 2799 (paragraphs 1–3), and, for each country, list transfers of conventional weapons and equipment limited by the CFE Treaty made by NATO/CFE countries (other than the U.S.) and by the Eastern Group States Parties.

Title 22, §2799c

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(a)Notifications

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)Annual reports

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