---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 206.6"
title: "22"
number: "206.6"
heading: "Considerations in determining whether production or disclosure should be made pursuant to a demand."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/206.6"
---

# §206.6. Considerations in determining whether production or disclosure should be made pursuant to a demand.

- (a) In deciding whether to make disclosures pursuant to a demand, the General Counsel, or his designee, may consider, among things:
  - (1) Whether such disclosure is appropriate under the rules of procedure governing the case or matter in which the demand arose, and
  - (2) **Whether disclosure is appropriate under the relevant substantive law concerning privilege.**
- (b) Among the demands in response to which disclosure will not be made are those demands with respect to which any of the following factors exist:
  - (1) Disclosure would violate a statute or a rule of procedure,
  - (2) Disclosure would violate a specific regulation,
  - (3) Disclosure would reveal classified information, unless appropriately declassified by the originating agency,
  - (4) Disclosure would reveal trade secrets or proprietary information without the owner's consent,
  - (5) Disclosure would otherwise adversely affect the foreign policy interets of the United States or impair the foreign assistance program of the United States, or
  - (6) **Disclosure would impair an ongoing Inspector General or Department of Justice investigation.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 621, Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 75 Stat. 424 (22 U.S.C. 2381).

### Source

Source: 53 FR 24260, June 28, 1988, unless otherwise noted.