5 C.F.R. § 2635.105 Supplemental agency regulations.
Title 5 - Administrative Personnel
Link to an amendment published at 71 FR 45736, August 10, 2006. In addition to the regulations set forth in this part, an employee shall comply with any supplemental agency regulations issued by his employing agency under this section. (a) An agency that wishes to supplement this part shall prepare and submit to the Office of Government Ethics, for its concurrence and joint issuance, any agency regulations that supplement the regulations contained in this part. Supplemental agency regulations which the agency determines are necessary and appropriate, in view of its programs and operations, to fulfill the purposes of this part shall be: (1) In the form of a supplement to the regulations in this part; and (2) In addition to the substantive provisions of this part. (b) After concurrence and co-signature by the Office of Government Ethics, the agency shall submit its supplemental agency regulations to the (c) This section applies to any supplemental agency regulations or amendments thereof issued under this part. It does not apply to: (1) A handbook or other issuance intended merely as an explanation of the standards contained in this part or in supplemental agency regulations; (2) An instruction or other issuance the purpose of which is to: (i) Delegate to an agency designee authority to make any determination, give any approval or take any other action required or permitted by this part or by supplemental agency regulations; or (ii) Establish internal agency procedures for documenting or processing any determination, approval or other action required or permitted by this part or by supplemental agency regulations, or for retaining any such documentation; or (3) Regulations or instructions that an agency has authority, independent of this part, to issue, such as regulations implementing an agency's gift acceptance statute, protecting categories of nonpublic information or establishing standards for use of Government vehicles. Where the content of any such regulations or instructions was included in the agency's standards of conduct regulations issued pursuant to Executive Order 11222 and the Office of Government Ethics concurs that they need not be issued as part of an agency's supplemental agency regulations, those regulations or instructions may be promulgated separately from the agency's supplemental agency regulations.
Title 5: Administrative Personnel
PART 2635—STANDARDS OF ETHICAL CONDUCT FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Subpart A—General Provisions
§ 2635.105 Supplemental agency regulations.
