[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR806.5]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
    CHAPTER VIII--BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 806--DIRECT INVESTMENT SURVEYS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 806.5  Confidentiality.

    Information collected pursuant to Sec. 806.3 is confidential (see 
section 5(c) of the Act, 22 U.S.C. 3104).
    (a) Access to this information shall be available only to officials 
and employees (including consultants and contractors and their 
employees) of agencies designated by the President to perform functions 
under the Act.
    (b) Subject to paragraph (d) of this section, the President may 
authorize the exchange of information between agencies or officials 
designated to perform functions under the Act.
    (c) Nothing in this part shall be construed to require any Federal 
Agency to disclose information otherwise protected by law.
    (d) This information shall be used solely for analytical or 
statistical purposes or for a proceeding under Sec. 806.6.
    (e) No official or employee (including consultants and contractors 
and their employees) shall publish or make available to any other person 
any information collected under the Act in such a manner that the person 
to whom the information relates can be specifically identified.
    (f) Reports and copies of reports prepared pursuant to the Act are 
confidential and their submission or disclosure shall not be compelled 
by any person without the prior written permission of the person filing 
the report and the customer of such person where the information 
supplied is identifiable as being derived from the records of such 
customer.