You might be prohibited from receiving outside compensation for teaching, speaking, or writing when the activity relates to your official duties. The teaching, speaking, or writing is related to your official duties if:
- The activity is undertaken as part of your official duties
- The circumstances indicate that the invitation to engage in the activity was extended to you primarily because of your official position rather than your expertise on a particular subject matter
- the invitation to engage in the activity or the offer of compensation for the activity was extended to you (directly or indirectly) by a person who has interests that may be affected substantially by performance or nonperformance of your duties
- The information conveyed through the activity draws substantially on ideas or official data that are nonpublic information
- During a 1-year period of your current appointment
- if you serve for more than 60 days and the subject of the activity deals in significant part with any matter to which you are presently assigned or were assigned during the previous 1-year period, or
- if you serve 60 days or less and the subject deals in significant part with a particular matter involving specific parties in which you participated or are participating personally and substantially.
Check with your ethics officials for more details. (Link to 5 C.F.R. 2635.807 more information).