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§ 6744. Confidentiality of information
(a) Freedom of Information Act exemption for certain Convention information
(b) Exceptions
(1) Information for the Technical Secretariat
(2) Information for Congress
(3) Information for enforcement actions
(c) Information disclosed in national interest
(1) Authority
(2) Notice of disclosure
(A) Requirement
If any Department or agency of the United States Government proposes pursuant to paragraph (1) to publish or disclose or otherwise provide information exempt from disclosure under subsection (a), the United States National Authority shall, unless contrary to national security or law enforcement needs, provide notice of intent to disclose the information—
(i) to the person that submitted such information; and
(ii) in the case of information about a person received from another source, to the person to whom that information pertains.
The information may not be disclosed until the expiration of 30 days after notice under this paragraph has been provided.
(B) Proceedings on objections
(d) Criminal penalty for wrongful disclosure
(e) Criminal forfeiture
(f) International inspectors
(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 404, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–882.)