Legal Control Data in Material Master Records

Definition

Data that determines whether a material is subject to legal control, and if it is, to which export control class the material belongs.

Use

Export Control Class and Grouping for a Material

The material master record contains a segment so that you can assign the appropriate export control class to each material within a given legal regulation when you enter the material-specific data relevant to legal control.

Within a legal regulation, each material has a specific legal control class and can only be assigned to one grouping for legal control. Since there are also cases in which products with identical export control numbers have to be treated differently from the point of view of export law, groupings are also recorded in the material master.

Note Note

The legal regulations relevant for the exporting country are marked in the first column. Only these are checked. You can also maintain preemptive export control classes and groupings for legal regulations that are not yet active.

End of the note.

Materials Exempted from Export Control

When you activate legal control, every material in the system is subject to legal control. However, there are also materials that are never subject to legal control and should never be checked by the system.

You can ensure that these materials are never checked by maintaining data to indicate an exemption certificate. If a material is exempted from export control, you need to enter relevant data into the Foreign Trade Export view of the material master record. The system only recognizes the material as not relevant for legal control if the material meets the following three conditions in the Legal Control section of the data screen:

  • The Exemption Certificate code is set to "B" – Accepted

  • The Exemption Certificate Number is maintained

  • The Exemption Certificate Issue Date falls before the goods issue date of the export

Material masters maintained in this way are ignored by the system during legal control in sales orders.

Individual Maintenance of the Material Master for Export Control

At the legal regulation level you determine which material masters the system selects for legal control. For each legal regulation, you can define whether all or no materials are subject to the regulation by default. In Customizing for Foreign Trade/Customs , choose Start of the navigation path Legal control Next navigation step Define Legal Regulations and Assign by Country End of the navigation path . For the selected legal regulation, do one of the following:

  • Select Indiv. maint. matl master (Individual maintenance of material master) if you do not want materials to be subject to the legal regulation. Then if you do want a particular material to be subject to this regulation, you must mark it explicitly in its material master record.

  • Clear Indiv. maint. matl master if you want all materials to be subject to this legal regulation by default. Then you must define the export control class and grouping for all materials in their material master records.

Maintaining Legal Control Data

You can maintain the legal control data in material master records in the Controlling section of the Legal Control Cockpit .