[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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.



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    (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.