---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6842"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6842"
heading: "Certification requirement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6842"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Assistance to Countries with Large Populations Having Hiv/aids"
  - "Subchapter II — World Bank Aids Trust Fund"
  - "Part C — United States Financial Participation"
---

# §6842. Certification requirement

- (a) **In general—** Prior to the initial obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated pursuant to [section 6841 of this title](/usc/22/6841.md), the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall certify that adequate procedures and standards have been established to ensure accountability for and monitoring of the use of funds contributed to the Trust Fund, including the cost of administering the Trust Fund.
- (b) **Transmittal of certification—** The certification required by [subsection (a)](#a), and the bases for that certification, shall be submitted by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury to Congress.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–264, title I, § 142, Aug. 19, 2000, 114 Stat. 758.)