---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 263c"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "263c"
heading: "Anti-piracy information sharing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/263c"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
---

# §263c. Anti-piracy information sharing


The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) is authorized to provide for the participation by the United States in the Information Sharing Centre located in Singapore, as established by the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–81, div. E, title LI, § 5107, Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2347.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

Pub. L. 117–81, div. E, § 5002, Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2341, provided that: “In this division [see Tables for classification]: Appropriate congressional committees.—The term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ means the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. Department.—If not otherwise specified, the term ‘Department’ means the Department of State. Secretary.—If not otherwise specified, the term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of State.”