[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1218.62]

[Page 156-157]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1218_BLUEBERRY PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER--Table of 
 
     Subpart A_Blueberry Promotion, Research, and Information Order
 
Sec. 1218.62  Confidential treatment.

    All information obtained from books, records, or reports under the 
Act, this subpart, and the regulations issued thereunder shall be kept 
confidential by all persons, including all employees and former 
employees of the Council, all officers and employees and former officers 
and employees of contracting and subcontracting agencies or agreeing 
parties having access to such information. Such information shall not be 
available to Council members, producers, importers, exporters, or first 
handlers. Only those persons having a specific need for such information 
to effectively administer the provisions of this subpart shall have 
access to such information. Only such information so obtained as the 
Secretary deems relevant shall be disclosed by them, and

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then only in a judicial proceeding or administrative hearing brought at 
the direction, or on the request, of the Secretary, or to which the 
Secretary or any officer of the United States is a party, and involving 
this subpart. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit:
    (a) The issuance of general statements based upon the reports of the 
number of persons subject to this subpart or statistical data collected 
therefrom, which statements do not identify the information furnished by 
any person; and
    (b) The publication, by direction of the Secretary, of the name of 
any person who has been adjudged to have violated this subpart, together 
with a statement of the particular provisions of this subpart violated 
by such person.

[65 FR 43963, July 17, 2000, as amended at 66 FR 37119, July 17, 2001]

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