UKR-GL-25

Summary

This general license authorizes U.S.-person news reporting organizations and their U.S.-person employees (journalists, photojournalists, and supporting broadcast or technical personnel) to engage in transactions ordinarily incident and necessary to journalistic activities in the Covered Regions (Crimea, DNR, LNR, and any other regions of Ukraine designated by the Secretary of the Treasury). It also authorizes U.S.-person news reporting organizations to establish and operate news bureaus in those Covered Regions. Authorized transactions include hiring staff, leasing office space, purchasing goods and services, using telecommunications facilities, exporting/reexporting EAR99-designated equipment, and paying all ordinary expenses including taxes.

Authorized activities

• Hiring and compensating support staff in the Covered Regions (e.g., stringers, translators, interpreters, camera operators, technical experts, freelance producers, or drivers), persons to handle logistics, or other office personnel as needed
• Leasing or renting office space
• Purchasing, leasing, or renting Covered Regions-origin goods and services (e.g., mobile phones and related air time), selling such goods when no longer needed, or importing them into the United States
• Renting and using telecommunications facilities in the Covered Regions and paying fees or taxes related to the dissemination of information and transmission of news feeds (e.g., fees for satellite uplink facilities, or live news feeds)
• Exporting and reexporting to the Covered Regions, and subsequently reexporting from the Covered Regions, equipment necessary for and ordinarily incident to journalistic activities, provided such equipment is designated as EAR99 under the Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR parts 730 through 774 (the "EAR"), and further provided that such equipment is reexported from the Covered Regions to the United States or a third country when no longer needed for journalistic activities in the Covered Regions
• Paying for all expenses ordinarily incident and necessary to journalistic activities, including sales or employment taxes
• Establishing and operating news bureaus in the Covered Regions (for U.S.-person news reporting organizations)

Conditions

The license does not authorize: (1) any new investment in the Covered Regions prohibited by E.O. 13685 or E.O. 14065 other than as expressly authorized in paragraphs (a) or (b), unless separately authorized; or (2) any transactions involving any person blocked pursuant to E.O. 13685 or E.O. 14065, unless separately authorized. All authorized transactions must be ordinarily incident and necessary to journalistic activities or the establishment/operation of a news bureau. Exported/reexported equipment must be EAR99-designated and must be reexported from the Covered Regions when no longer needed. Nothing in the license relieves any person from compliance with other Federal laws or requirements of other Federal agencies.