§10.03California's Political Reform Act of 1974, embodied in the University of California Conflict of Interest Code, requires that all state employees and officials must disqualify themselves from making or participating in certain decisions when a financial conflict of interest is present. As University employees, all Berkeley Lab employees are covered by the provisions of the Act.
Under California law and University policy, certain designated Laboratory officials are required to file financial interest statements when they assume a designated official position, annually while they hold such a position, and when they leave it. These employees are notified directly of the applicable requirements for their specific designated official positions. A list of designated official positions for the Laboratory is available from the Conflict of Interest page on the UCOP Web site.