140.22—Procedures.
(a) Original classification.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has no original classification authority.
(b) Derivative classification.
Personnel of the Commission shall respect the original classification markings assigned to information they receive from other agencies.
(c) Declassification and downgrading.
Since the Commission does no original classification of material, declassification and downgrading of sensitive material is not applicable.
(d) Dissemination.
All classified national security information which the Commission receives from any agency will be cared for and returned in accordance with the particular agency's policy guidelines and may not be disseminated to any other agency without the consent of the originating agency.