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HomeGuidance and Procedures for Export Control ComplianceAppendix 1: Terms as Used in the Guidance/Procedures Documents

Appendix 1: Terms as Used in the Guidance/Procedures Documents 

Note: These are not regulatory definitions.  See Common Definitions and Terms for regulatory definitions. 

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  • Access to a Laboratory

    Entry into a laboratory for any purpose including but not limited to research, education, tour, equipment repair, meetings, workshops, consultations. For the purposes of this procedure, access also includes visual exposure through glass or open doors if the laboratory has export controlled items and/or information.

  • Activity

    Research, education, service, or business purpose.

  • Campus Community

    Stony Brook University Export Control Policy defines Campus Community.  Campus Community includes but is not limited to all faculty (including voluntary, lecturers, and adjuncts); research personnel (including research staff, post-doctoral fellows, research associates); visiting scientists and scholars, students (graduate and undergraduate involved in research activities); visiting scholars, consultants or other volunteers involved in research activities; non-research staff in departments, centers, institutes, colleges, administrative offices that are involved with transactions covered under the policy. 

  • Export Classification

    Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) for items controlled under the Export Administration Regulations, the US Munitions List (USML) category for any items controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or the category for any items controlled under the Nuclear Regulatory regulations.

  • Host

    Member of the Campus Community that is inviting the International Visitor to the University.

  • International Visitor

    A foreign person that is neither salaried by the University nor a student accepted into a formal program of study at the University.

  • Information

    Technology or technical data. Export controlled information is: proprietary information, restricted access government information, research data subject to publication/dissemination restrictions, information being provided as part of a defense service (whether or not the information is publicly available),

  • Item

    Acquired hardware, materials, or software for use in the conduct of research, education, or service as well as items created in the course of fundamental or restricted research.

  • Laboratory

    This definition is not to be used for EH&S purposes

    A building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.

    Any place, situation, set of conditions, or the like, conducive to experimentation, investigation, observation, etc., anything suggestive of a scientific laboratory.

  • Shipper

    The member of the Campus Community that initiates the shipment or transfer and has the capacity to provide the information required to classify the items being shipped/transferred. 

  • Traveler

    Any faculty, staff or student traveling internationally to conduct any Activity on behalf of the University in a foreign country.