Jessa Bush

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Tips for Travel to Croatia

• Jessa Bush
• Export Control Analyst
• The University of Oklahoma

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How do we stay safe, healthy, and secure in
Croatia?
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Considerations when traveling abroad

• Safety Issues
• Travel Advisories and Consular Information Sheets
• Registration with U.S. Department of State
• Health Issues
• CDC Information
• Insurance, prescriptions, finding doctors and
  hospitals
• TB Policy
• Security Issues
• Export controls
• Sensitive information

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Be safe

• How much do you know about Croatia?
• travel.state.gov
• De-mining operations
• Croatian Mine Action Center
• http//www.hcr.hr/en/minskaSituacija.asp

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Be safe

• Hostilities in Croatia
• ended in 1995, however
• demining along former
• confrontation lines is
• not complete.

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Be safe

• Travelers to the following areas should use
  extreme caution
• Eastern Slavonija
• Brodsko-Posavska county
• Karlovac county
• Zadar and surrounding areas
• Plitvice Lakes National Park

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Be safe

• Traffic Safety
• No right turns on red
• No use of hand-held cellular phones while driving
• Headlights on at all times
• Zero tolerance of driving under the influence
• 0.00 Blood Alcohol level

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Registration with State

• Why register?
• Death or injury abroad
• Arrest or detention abroad
• Unforeseen crisis
• Natural disasters
• Terrorist events
• https//travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs/ui/

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Privacy Act5 U.S.C. 522(a)

• Expressed (written) consent must be given in
  order for consular officials to share information
  with next of kin and/or congressional
  representatives

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Stay healthy

• Centers for Disease Control
• Vaccinations
• Routine vaccinations such as measles/mumps/rubella
  (MMR) vaccine, diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus
  (DPT) vaccine, etc.
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Typhoid
• Rabies

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Stay healthy

• Infectious diseases
• Tickborne encephalitis (TBE)
• Tuberculosis
• OU Staff and faculty residing overseas for eight
  weeks or longer must comply with OUs TB policy
  prior to returning to work
• http//hr.ou.edu

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Stay healthy

• Bring the prescription medicines you take every
  day
• Keep them in their original prescription bottles
• Keep in carry-on luggage

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Stay healthy

• Health insurance
• Domestic health insurance policies are generally
  not accepted outside the U.S.
• Supplemental insurance info
• http//travel.state.gov
• Health Care in Croatia
• Hospitals are good, but medicines may be in short
  supply
• Upfront payment may be necessary

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Security travel and export controls

• Are you taking equipment, materials, tangible
  items?
• Export issues for the exporter of record
• Temporary exports should get a TMP letter/laptop
  letter
• Permanent exports
• May require export license

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Security travel and export controls

• Import Issues
• Increase in laptops being stopped at the border
  in other countries
• Requiring proof that the laptop was not
  purchased overseas and therefore subject to
  taxes/tariffs

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Security issues for OU employees

• Sensitive information
• FERPA (student records)
• HIPAA (protected health information)
• Intellectual Property/Export controlled
  information
• The Risk
• Loss
• Theft
• Compromise

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Increasing the risk

• Government sponsored trips
• Security clearances, past or present
• Travel to countries with sophisticated or
  aggressive intelligence communities
• China, France, Israel, Russia, Taiwan

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Tips for securing information

• Best advice Do not travel with your laptop
• Use disposable thumb drives for presentations
• Send copies of slides via disposable TD, CD,
  paper copy
• Keep antivirus and security programs current
• Be prepared to say NO

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If you must take a laptop

• Encrypt HIPPAA and FERPA
• Take a generic (blank) laptop with TMP letter
• If you travel frequently, annual TMP
  certification and letter is an option

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Also suggested

• Pre-travel briefing
• Post-travel debriefing
• Equipment or materials
• Lost
• Stolen
• Comprised
• Suspicious contacts

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Recap Be safe

• Know your destination
• Check travel warnings, PAs, CISs
• Register with State
• Leave a copy of itinerary and passport info with
  next of kin
• Privacy Act waiver with next of kin

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Recap Be healthy

• http//www.cdc.gov/travel
• Check on health insurance, prescriptions
• OU Tb policy

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Recap Be secure

• Be aware of
• Export controls
• Sanctions
• Keep yourself, items, and information secure
• Take laptop only if necessary and with proper
  security measures in place
• Pre-travel briefing
• Post-travel debriefing

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Contact info

• Jessa Bush
• Export Control Analyst
• 405.325.5726
• jessa_at_ou.edu