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 124 STAT. 1750 PUBLIC LAW 111–203—JULY 21, 2010 appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, swap counterparties, and security-based swap counterparties. (b) In order to promote effective and consistent global regulation of contracts of sale of a commodity for future delivery and options on such contracts, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall consult and coordinate with foreign regulatory authorities on the establishment of consistent international standards with respect to the regulation of contracts of sale of a commodity for future delivery and options on such contracts, and may agree to such information-sharing arrangements as may be deemed nec- essary or appropriate in the public interest for the protection of users of contracts of sale of a commodity for future delivery. SEC. 753. ANTI -MANIPULATION AUTHORITY. (a) PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION AND FALSE INFORMATION.—Subsection (c) of section 6 of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 9, 15) is amended to read as follows: ‘‘(c) PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION AND FALSE INFORMATION.— ‘‘(1) PROHIBITION AGAINST MANIPULATION.—It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to use or employ, or attempt to use or employ, in connection with any swap, or a contract of sale of any commodity in interstate commerce, or for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any registered entity, any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance, in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Commis- sion shall promulgate by not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Con- sumer Protection Act, provided no rule or regulation promul- gated by the Commission shall require any person to disclose to another person nonpublic information that may be material to the market price, rate, or level of the commodity transaction, except as necessary to make any statement made to the other person in or in connection with the transaction not misleading in any material respect. ‘‘(A) SPECIAL PROVISION FOR MANIPULATION BY FALSE REPORTING.—Unlawful manipulation for purposes of this paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, delivering, or causing to be delivered for transmission through the mails or interstate commerce, by any means of communica- tion whatsoever, a false or misleading or inaccurate report concerning crop or market information or conditions that affect or tend to affect the price of any commodity in interstate commerce, knowing, or acting in reckless dis- regard of the fact that such report is false, misleading or inaccurate. ‘‘(B) EFFECT ON OTHER LAW.—Nothing in this para- graph shall affect, or be construed to affect, the applicability of section 9(a)(2). ‘‘(C) GOOD FAITH MISTAKES.—Mistakenly transmitting, in good faith, false or misleading or inaccurate information to a price reporting service would not be sufficient to violate subsection (c)(1)(A). ‘‘(2) PROHIBITION REGARDING FALSE INFORMATION.—It shall be unlawful for any person to make any false or misleading statement of a material fact to the Commission, including in any registration application or any report filed with the Regulations. Deadline. Contracts.