Export Compliance Information

It is the policy of National Instruments Corporation and its branches that all export and re-export sales or shipments of its products and technical data will be made in accordance with all applicable global export control laws, including without limitation:

• United States export laws and regulations; and
• European Union and national export laws and regulations.

The United States export laws and regulations include, but are not limited to, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), U.S. State Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”), U.S. Treasury Department’s Foreign Assets Control Regulations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulations and the U.S. Energy Department’s Assistance to Foreign Atomic Energy Activities Regulations. The European Laws and Regulations include, but are not limited to, the Council Regulation (EC) No. 428/2009 and the Hungarian Government Decree No. 50/2004 (III. 23.)

Diversion contrary to U.S. and E.U. law is strictly prohibited.

National Instruments products or technology MAY NOT BE exported or re-exported, either directly or indirectly, to the following:

• Any country subject to a comprehensive embargo by the United States, currently:
• Cuba
• Iran
• North Korea
• Sudan
• Syria
• An entity that you know or have reason to know is involved in any of the following end uses:
• Biological Weapons
• Chemical Weapons
• Maritime Nuclear Propulsion
• An entity (person, address or company/university) that is listed on the Denied Persons List, Unverified List, Entity List, Specially Designated Nationals List, Debarred List and Nonproliferation Sanctions List. The full lists are available are on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security webpage:
  http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/liststocheck.htm

All National Instruments high-speed digitizers that can acquire a signal at a rate greater than 2 giga-samples per second (-5152, -5153 and -5154 product families) MAY NOT BE exported or re-exported, either directly or indirectly, without an export license from the United States government to the following countries:

• Iraq
• Israel
• Libya
• Pakistan
• Any embargoed country listed in the above section

National Instruments products MAY be prohibited from shipping to an entity involved with any of the following end uses, depending upon the destination country:

• Military End Use
• Missle Technology
• Nuclear Technology
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

It is the policy of National Instruments to require End Use Information, in order to verify that the intended end use would not constitute a violation of the U.S. export control laws, for any shipment of product into the following countries:

• Afghanistan
• China
• India
• Iraq
• Malta
• Pakistan
• Russia
• The United Arab Emirates

End Use Information, which includes end user name, company name, address and intended use of NI products, may be sent for review via fax to 1 512 683 5357 or to export.screening@ni.com.

NI reserves the right not to ship NI products ordered if, at any time, NI believes that such shipment may violate U.S. or E.U. export control laws.

Although we provide this information to assist you, you remain responsible for exporting or re-exporting NI products in accordance with all applicable global export control laws, including without limitation, U.S. and E.U. laws.

For questions, contact NI’s Global Trade Compliance Department:

Phone: 1(512) 683-6010

Email: trade.compliance@ni.com

For an overview of United States export controls, please visit the website of the Bureau of Industry and Security:
http://www.bis.doc.gov/licensing/exportingbasics.htm

For European Union export controls, please view Council Regulation (EC) No. 428/2009 at the below link:
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2009/june/tradoc_143390.pdf