HEXDI Integrates Airbus SE Consent Agreement

Pursuant to the terms of a January 2020 Consent Agreement entered into by the Department of State and Airbus SE (“Airbus”)*, the Department of State and Airbus agreed to settle administrative proceedings for alleged violations of the Arms Export Control Act arising from Airbus’ ITAR Part 130 reports, records maintenance, and re-exports and retransfers of defense articles.

As part of the Consent Agreement, Airbus agreed to institute a variety of remedial measures and to pay a civil penalty of $10 million dollars, $5 million of which is suspended for the costs of remedial compliance measures. Airbus also agreed to perform audits of its compliance program during the Consent Agreement term and to implement certain compliance measures.

HEXDI has integrated 18 additional government standards reflected in the remedial measures contained in the Airbus Consent Agreement, which are now included in HEXDI modules 1 through 12.  Many of these standards appeared in previous Department of State Consent Agreements, which are already integrated in HEXDI.

*See DDTC Consent Agreement, Airbus SE (2020), available at www.pmddtc.state.gov/ddtc_public

This case is also indexed in HEXDI's Cost of Non-Compliance dataset, alongside other public export-control and sanctions enforcement actions.

The above is not intended as an exhaustive list of restrictions that may apply to a particular transaction nor advice for a specific transaction because the specifics of an individual case may implicate application of other U.S. laws as well as foreign laws that carry added or different requirements. In addition, U.S. export control and sanctions laws are frequently subject to change. Such changes can affect the continued validity of the information above.