15 CFR § 701.5 - Confidentiality.

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title: "15 CFR § 701.5 - Confidentiality."
title_number: 15
title_name: "Commerce and Foreign Trade"
section_number: "701.5"
section_name: "Confidentiality."
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL SECURITY INDUSTRIAL BASE REGULATIONS"
part_number: "701"
part_name: "REPORTING OF OFFSETS AGREEMENTS IN SALES OF WEAPON SYSTEMS OR DEFENSE-RELATED ITEMS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES OR FOREIGN FIRMS"
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authority: "50 U.S.C. 4568; E.O. 12919, 59 FR 29525, 3 CFR, 1994 Comp., p. 901; E.O. 13286, 68 FR 10619, 3 CFR, 2003 Comp., p. 166."
regulatory_source: "59 FR 61796, Dec. 2, 1994, unless otherwise noted."
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# 701.5 Confidentiality.

(a) As provided by § 309(c) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, BIS shall not publicly disclose the information it receives pursuant to this part, unless the firm furnishing the information subsequently specifically authorizes public disclosure.

(b) Public disclosure must be authorized in writing by an official of the firm competent to make such an authorization.

(c) Nothing in this provision shall prevent the use of data aggregated from information provided pursuant to this part in the summary report to the Congress described in § 701.1.