12 C.F.R. § 912.4 Closed meetings.
Title 12 - Banks and Banking
(a) The Board of Directors may close a meeting, or portion thereof, to public observation, or withhold information from the public pertaining to a meeting, when it determines that opening the meeting, or a portion thereof, or the public disclosure of information pertaining to such meeting, or portion thereof, is likely to: (1) Disclose matters that are: (i) Specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive Order to be kept secret in the interests of national defense or foreign policy; and (ii) Are, in fact, properly classified pursuant to such Executive Order; (2) Relate solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of the Finance Board; (3) Disclose matters specifically exempt from disclosure by statute (other than the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552)), provided that such statute: (i) Requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue; or (ii) Establishes particular criteria for withholding matters from the public or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld; (4) Disclose trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is obtained from a person and is privileged or confidential; (5) Involve accusing any person of a crime, or formally censuring any person; (6) Disclose information of a personal nature where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; (7) Disclose investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes, or information which if written would be contained in such records, but only to the extent that the production of such records or information would: (i) Interfere with enforcement proceedings; (ii) Deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication; (iii) Constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; (iv) Disclose the identity of a confidential source and, in the case of a record compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, confidential information furnished only by the confidential source; (v) Disclose investigative techniques and procedures; or (vi) Endanger the life or physical safety of law enforcement personnel; (8) Disclose information contained in or related to examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of the Finance Board or another agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of Banks or other financial institutions; (9) Disclose information the premature disclosure of which would be likely to: (i) (A) Lead to significant financial speculation in currencies, securities, or commodities; (B) Significantly endanger the stability of any of the Banks or any other financial institution; or (ii) Significantly frustrate implementation of a proposed Finance Board action, except that this paragraph shall not apply in any instance where the Finance Board has already disclosed to the public the content or nature of its proposed action, or where the Finance Board is required by law to make such disclosure on its own initiative prior to taking final action on such proposal; or (10) Specifically concern the issuance of a subpoena by the Board of Directors, or the Finance Board's participation in a civil action or proceeding, an action in a foreign court or international tribunal, or an arbitration, or the initiation, conduct or disposition of a particular case of formal adjudication pursuant to the procedures in 5 U.S.C. 554 or otherwise involving a determination on the record after opportunity for a hearing. (b) A meeting or portions of a meeting shall not be closed nor information withheld pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section if the Board of Directors finds that the public interest requires otherwise. [58 FR 19202, Apr. 13, 1993. Redesignated at 65 FR 8256, Feb. 18, 2000, as amended at 67 FR 12844, Mar. 20, 2002]
Title 12: Banks and Banking
PART 912—INFORMATION REGARDING MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD
§ 912.4 Closed meetings.
