Incorrect answer:

YES, because payment of your airfare, hotel accommodations, and registration is essentially payment of an honoraria for your participation on the panel discussion is INCORRECT.

You may only accept the gift if the donor is a nonprofit entity that receives less than 5% of its funding from for-profit sources or if the donor is a governmental exchange organization to which the state pays dues that are invoiced expressly to cover travel and other expenses to attend its events. IEC PS 08-01 from the Independent Ethics Commission only permits the acceptance of an honorarium in an amount that is reasonably related to the services the covered individual is being asked to perform. Here, participation on a one-hour panel discussion would not warrant the payment of airfare, hotel accommodations, and registration for a three-day conference.

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