---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 600.1"
title: "28"
number: "600.1"
heading: "Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/600.1"
---

# §600.1. Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel.


The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and—

- (a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and
- (b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, 515-519.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 37042, July 9, 1999, unless otherwise noted.