July 16, 1996
The Office of Personnel Management, with the concurrence of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), is issuing an interim rule for employees of OPM that supplements the executive branch-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct (Standards) issued by OGE. The interim rule contains a notice requirement designed to ensure that OPM employees do not use their official positions or nonpublic information to obtain an advantage for themselves or for certain other persons on competitive and other examinations relating to Federal service, and a requirement for OPM employees to obtain prior approval before engaging in certain types of outside activities. The Office of Personnel Management is also repealing that portion of its internal standards of conduct regulations that was retained on an interim basis pending issuance of its supplemental regulations, and those portions of its internal standards of conduct regulations that were superseded by the new Standards or by the executive branch financial disclosure regulations issued by OGE. The Office of Personnel Management is retaining in its internal standards of conduct regulation a separate Privacy Act conduct code and adding a cross-reference to ethics and other conduct-related statutes and regulations.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1996-07-16/pdf/96-18020.pdf