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 114 STAT. 834 PUBLIC LAW 106-279—OCT. 6, 2000 (C) USE OF SOCIAL SERVICE PROFESSIONALS. — The agency has established procedures designed to ensure that social service functions requiring the application of clinical skills and judgment are performed only by professionals with appropriate qualifications and credentials. (D) RECORDS, REPORTS, AND INFORMATION MATTERS. — The agency is capable of— (i) maintaining such records and making such reports as may be required by the Secretary, the United States central authority, and the accrediting entity that accredits the agency; (ii) cooperating with reviews, inspections, and audits; (iii) safeguarding sensitive individual information; and (iv) complying with other requirements concerning information management necessary to ensure compliance with the Convention, this Act, and any other applicable law. (E) LIABILITY INSURANCE.—The agency agrees to have in force adequate liability insurance for professional negligence and any other insurance that the Secretary considers appropriate. (F) COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE RULES.—The agency has established adequate measures to comply (and to ensure compliance of their agents and clients) with the Convention, this Act, and any other applicable law. (G) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH STATE LICENSE TO PROVIDE ADOPTION SERVICES.— The agency is a private nonprofit organization licensed to provide adoption services in at least one State. (2) APPROVAL.— The standards prescribed under subsection (a) shall include the requirement that a person shall not be approved under this title unless the person is a private forprofit entity that meets the requirements of subparagraphs (A) through (F) of paragraph (1) of this subsection. (3) RENEWAL OF ACCREDITATION OR APPROVAL.—The standards prescribed under subsection (a) shall provide that the accreditation of an agency or approval of a person under this title shall be for a period of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years, and may be renewed on a showing that the agency or person meets the requirements applicable to original accreditation or approval under this title. (c) TEMPORARY REGISTRATION OF COMMUNITY BASED AGEN- CIES. — (1) ONE-YEAR REGISTRATION PERIOD FOR MEDIUM COMMU- NITY BASED AGENCIES. —For a 1-year period after the entry into force of the Convention and notwithstanding subsection (b), the Secretary may provide, in regulations issued pursuant to subsection (a), that an agency may register with the Secretary and be accredited to provide adoption services in the United States in cases subject to the Convention during such period if the agency has provided adoption services in fewer than 100 intercountry adoptions in the preceding calendar year and meets the criteria described in paragraph (3). (2) TWO-YEAR REGISTRATION PERIOD FOR SMALL COMMUNITY- BASED AGENCIES.— For a 2-year period after the entry into

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