FCC Adopts Expansive New Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements In Latest Order

Key Takeaways:

• The FCC adopted a Foreign Adversary Report & Order imposing broad new ownership reporting requirements. Holders of FCC authorizations must certify or report whether they are "owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a foreign adversary." Reporting is required based on three categories or "schedules" of licenses.
• "Foreign adversary" countries, as determined by the Department of Commerce, currently include: China, Hong Kong, Macau, Cuba, Iran, Korea, Russia and the Venezuelan Maduro Regime.
• This information will be made publicly available. The FCC has not indicated whether or for what purposes it may use this data.

The Foreign Adversary Report and Order (Foreign Adversary R&O) aims to increase transparency of foreign adversary ownership in Commission regulatees and enhance the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC or Commission) ability to "assess and protect the U.S. against emerging national security