# Reporting Line for the Commission's Ethics Counsel
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2011-11-18 · Effective 2011-11-18 · 76 FR 71449
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-29802
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 71449
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 200
- **Publication date:** 2011-11-18
- **Effective date:** 2011-11-18
- **Docket:** Release No. 34-65742
## Abstract

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is amending its rules to reflect that the Commission's Office of the Ethics Counsel is now a stand-alone Office of the Commission and that the head of the Office, the Ethics Counsel, reports directly to the Chairman of the Commission.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/11/18/2011-29802/reporting-line-for-the-commissions-ethics-counsel)
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