§22 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

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The Commission must set up and run research and information programs as part of its regular work. The programs must study whether computer trading and other modern information and communication technologies can be used by exchanges, boards of trade, and the Commission to improve, strengthen, or regulate futures trading. The programs must also create educational materials for producers, market users, and the public, and support the chapter’s overall goals. Each year the Commission must include its plans and findings about these programs in its report to Congress.

Title 7, §22

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(a)The Commission shall establish and maintain, as part of its ongoing operations, research and information programs to (1) determine the feasibility of trading by computer, and the expanded use of modern information system technology, electronic data processing, and modern communication systems by commodity exchanges, boards of trade, and by the Commission itself for purposes of improving, strengthening, facilitating, or regulating futures trading operations; (2) assist in the development of educational and other informational materials regarding futures trading for dissemination and use among producers, market users, and the general public; and (3) carry out the general purposes of this chapter.

(b)The Commission shall include in its annual reports to Congress plans and findings with respect to implementing this section.

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of section, see section 418 of Pub. L. 93–463, set out as an

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of 1974 Amendment note under section 2 of this title.

§22 Research and information programs; reports to Congress

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