---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 120.56"
title: "22"
number: "120.56"
heading: "Release."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/120.56"
---

# §120.56. Release.

- (a) **Release.** Technical data is released through:
  - (1) Visual or other inspection by foreign persons of a defense article that reveals technical data to a foreign person;
  - (2) Oral or written exchanges with foreign persons of technical data in the United States or abroad;
  - (3) The use of access information to cause or enable a foreign person, including yourself, to access, view, or possess unencrypted technical data; or
  - (4) The use of access information to cause technical data outside of the United States to be in unencrypted form.
- (b) **Provision of access information.** Authorization for a release of technical data to a foreign person is required to provide access information to that foreign person, if that access information can cause or enable access, viewing, or possession of the unencrypted technical data.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2651a, 2752, 2753, 2776, 2778, 2779, 2779a, 2785, 2794, 2797; E.O. 13637, 78 FR 16129, 3 CFR, 2013 Comp., p. 223.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 16411, Mar. 23, 2022, unless otherwise noted.