Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Commission for Labor Cooperation, Border Environment Cooperation Commission, and North American Development Bank
Signed March 16, 1994·William J. Clinton·59 FR 13179
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Designates the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Commission for Labor Cooperation, the Border Environment Cooperation Commission, and the North American Development Bank as public international organizations under the International Organizations Immunities Act. These bodies were established under the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, and the designation entitles them to the privileges, exemptions, and immunities that law confers on such organizations. The order states that this designation does not limit any privileges, exemptions, or immunities these organizations may otherwise have gained, or may later gain, through international agreements or acts of Congress.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and having found that the United States participates in the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Commission for Labor Cooperation, the Border Environment Cooperation Commission, and the North American Development Bank pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, Public Law 103-182, I hereby
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Executive Order 12904 of March 16, 1994
Commission for Environmental Cooperation,
Commission for Labor Cooperation, Border Environment
Cooperation Commission, and North American Development
Bank
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 1 of the International
Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and
having found that the United States participates in the
Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the
Commission for Labor Cooperation, the Border
Environment Cooperation Commission, and the North
American Development Bank pursuant to the North
American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act,
Public Law 103-182, I hereby designate the Commission
for Environmental Cooperation, the Commission for Labor
Cooperation, the Border Environment Cooperation
Commission, and the North American Development Bank as
public international organizations entitled to enjoy
the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by
the International Organizations Immunities Act. This
designation is not intended to abridge in any respect
privileges, exemptions, or immunities that such
organizations may have acquired or may acquire by
international agreements or by congressional action.
(Presidential Sig.)>
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 16, 1994.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed March 16, 1994. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.