[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR31.205-43]

[Page 612]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 31--CONTRACT COST PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart 31.2--Contracts With Commercial Organizations
 
Sec. 31.205-43  Trade, business, technical, and professional activity costs.

    The following types of costs are allowable:
    (a) Memberships in trade, business, technical, and professional 
organizations.
    (b) Subscriptions to trade, business, professional, or other 
technical periodicals.
    (c) When the principal purpose of a meeting, convention, conference, 
symposium, or seminar is the dissemination of trade, business, technical 
or professional information or the stimulation of production or improved 
productivity:
    (1) Costs of organizing, setting up, and sponsoring the meetings, 
conventions, symposia, etc., including rental of meeting facilities, 
transportation, subsistence, and incidental costs;
    (2) Costs of attendance by contractor employees, including travel 
costs (see 31.205-46); and
    (3) Costs of attendance by individuals who are not employees of the 
contractor, provided;
    (i) Such costs are not also reimbursed to the individual by the 
employing company or organization, and
    (ii) The individual's attendance is essential to achieve the purpose 
of the conference, meeting, convention, symposium, etc.

[48 FR 42301, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 53 FR 27467, July 20, 1988; 
60 FR 42660, Aug. 16, 1995]