1964_IMPORT_AND_EXPORT_(STRATEGIC_COMMODITIES)_REGULATIONS — Page 118

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CAP. 60]

Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations

[1988 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

“diagnostic system”-

"Software" to isolate or detect "software" or equipment malfunctions.

"maintenance system”-

"Software" to:

(a) Modify "software" or its associated documentation in order to correct faults, or for other updating purposes; or

(b) Maintain equipment.

"operating system”-

"Software" to control:

(a) The operation of a “digital computer” or of "related equipment”; or

(b) The loading or execution of "programmes".

"application software"--

"Software" not falling within any of the other defined categories of “software”.

3. "Specially designed software" is defined as:

The minimum "operating systems", "diagnostic systems", "maintenance systems" and "application software" necessary to be executed on a particular equipment to perform the function for which it was designed. To make other, incompatible equipment perform the same function requires:

(a) Modification of this "software”; or

(b) Addition of "programmes".

(This ends the Technical Notes. For a complete list of definitions of terms used in the Item, see Note 12 below; see also Item IL 1565 for additional definitions relating to electronic computers.)

Listed as Follows:

(a) "Software" of whatever category, as follows:

(1) "Software" designed or modified for any computer that is part of a computer series designed and produced within a proscribed area; except “application software" designed for and limited to:

(i) Accounting, general ledger, inventory control, payroll, accounts receivable, personnel records, wages calculation or invoice control;

(ii) Data and text manipulation such as sort/merge, text editing, data entry or word processing;

(iii) Data retrieval from established data files for purposes of report generation or inquiry for the functions described in (i) or (ii) above; or

(iv) The non "real time processing" of pollution sensor data at fixed sites or in civil vehicles for civil environmental monitoring purposes;

(2) "Software" designed or modified for the design, development or production of items embargoed in these Lists;

(3) "Software" designed or modified for:

(i) Embargoed "hybrid computers";

(ii) One or more of the functions described in Item IL 1565(h)(1)(1)(a) to (j) and (m) or for "digital computers" or "related equipment" designed or modified for such functions, except the minimum "specially designed software" in machine-executable form for "digital computers" and "related equipment" therefor which are freed from embargo only by Item IL 1565(h)(2)(i) or (ii), and only when supplied with the equipment or systems;

(4) "Software" for computer-aided design, manufacture, inspection or test of items embargoed in these Lists;

(5) "Software" designed or modified to provide certifiable multi-level security or certifiable user-isolation applicable to government-classified material or to applications requiring an equivalent level of security, or "software" to certify such "software";