No. agency or bureau within the Executive Office of the President may be designated as a separate departmental or agency component. The component's exercise of separate and distinct subject matter or geographical jurisdiction. Provided that a component has a separate statutory basis or exercises distinct and separate subject matter or geographical jurisdiction, the parent will generally be deemed by the Director of the Office of Government Ethics to be distinct and separate from that component notwithstanding that the parent may exercise general supervisory authority over the component. However, the degree of a parent's supervision over a component will be a factor in determining whether subject matter or geographical jurisdiction is in fact distinct and separate. The Director will not ordinarily consider two components as distinct and separate from one another where one component exercises supervisory authority over another.
All exemptions are effective as of the date indicated.
Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as otherwise indicated, all designations are effective as of January 1, 1991. United States Attorneys shall not be considered separate from any Office of the United States Attorney for a judicial district, but only from other designated components of the Department of Justice. The Executive Office for United States Trustees shall not be considered separate from any Office of the United States Trustee for a region, but only from other designated components of the Department of Justice. Each Office of the United States Trustee for a region shall be considered a separate component from each other such office.