§ 6202. — Investigations to assist foreign antitrust authority in obtaining antitrust evidence.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC6202]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 88--INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
Sec. 6202. Investigations to assist foreign antitrust authority
in obtaining antitrust evidence
(a) Request for investigative assistance
A request by a foreign antitrust authority for investigative
assistance under this section shall be made to the Attorney General, who
may deny the request in whole or in part. No further action shall be
taken under this section with respect to any part of a request that has
been denied by the Attorney General.
(b) Authority to investigate
In accordance with an antitrust mutual assistance agreement in
effect under this chapter, subject to section 6207 of this title, and
except as provided in section 6204 of this title, the Attorney General
and the Commission may, using their respective authority to investigate
possible violations of the Federal antitrust laws, conduct
investigations to obtain antitrust evidence relating to a possible
violation of the foreign antitrust laws administered or enforced by the
foreign antitrust authority with respect to which such agreement is in
effect under this chapter, and may provide such antitrust evidence to
the foreign antitrust authority, to assist the foreign antitrust
authority--
(1) in determining whether a person has violated or is about to
violate any of such foreign antitrust laws, or
(2) in enforcing any of such foreign antitrust laws.
(c) Special scope of authority
An investigation may be conducted under subsection (b) of this
section, and antitrust evidence obtained through such investigation may
be provided, without regard to whether the conduct investigated violates
any of the Federal antitrust laws.
(d) Rights and privileges preserved
A person may not be compelled in connection with an investigation
under this section to give testimony or a statement, or to produce a
document or other thing, in violation of any legally applicable right or
privilege.
(Pub. L. 103-438, Sec. 3, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4597.)
Codification
Section is comprised of section 3 of Pub. L. 103-438. Subsec. (e) of
section 3 of Pub. L. 103-438 amended sections 46, 57b-1, 1311, and 1312
of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 57b-1, 1312, 6204, 6207,
6210, 6211, 6212 of this title.
