(a) These regulations establish policy, assign responsibilities and prescribe procedures with respect to:
(1) The production or disclosure of official information or records by employees, members, advisors, and consultants of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority or the Federal Service Impasses Panel; and
(2) The testimony of current and former employees, members, advisors, and consultants of the Authority, the General Counsel or the Panel relating to official information, official duties or official records, in connection with civil federal or state litigation in which the Authority, the General Counsel or the Panel is not a party.
(b) The FLRA intends these provisions to:
(1) Conserve the time of employees for conducting official business;
(2) Minimize the involvement of employees in issues unrelated to the mission of the FLRA;
(3) Maintain the impartiality of employees in disputes between private litigants; and
(4) Protect sensitive, confidential information and the deliberative processes of the FLRA.
(c) In providing for these requirements, the FLRA does not waive the sovereign immunity of the United States.
(d) This part provides guidance for the internal operations of the FLRA. It does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, that a party may rely upon in any legal proceeding against the United States.