§6728 Annual Report on Inspections

Summary

The President must send a report, in both classified (secret) and unclassified (public) form, to certain congressional committees not later than one year after October 21, 1998, and every year after that. The report covers inspections done under the Convention during the previous year. Each annual report must give eight kinds of information, including the names of U.S.-subject companies that reported data under subchapter III; how many inspections happened in the United States; who the inspectors were and who was barred; the cost to the United States and the costs to U.S. businesses; descriptions of the inspections, including possible industrial espionage or inspector misconduct; who claimed loss of trade secrets and what the U.S. did about it; and any inspections outside the U.S. that were delayed or disrupted. The reports go to these committees: the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on International Relations, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.