Council of Europe in Respect of the Group of States Against Corruption
Signed December 18, 2001·George W. Bush·66 FR 66257
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Plain-language summary
Designates the Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act. This designation grants GRECO the privileges, exemptions, and immunities the Act provides to such organizations, based on a finding that GRECO is a public international organization in which the United States participates. The order specifies that this designation does not limit or reduce any privileges, exemptions, or immunities GRECO may already have or later acquire through international agreements or other laws.
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Claimed authority
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288) (the “Act”), and having found that the Council of Europe in Respect of the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) is a public international organization in which the United States participates within the meaning of the Act, I hereby
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 11957, January 13, 1977; Amended by: EO 13261, March 19, 2002
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13240 of December 18, 2001
Council of Europe in Respect of the Group of
States Against Corruption
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States,
including section 1 of the International Organizations
Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288) (the “Act”), and
having found that the Council of Europe in Respect of
the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) is a
public international organization in which the United
States participates within the meaning of the Act, I
hereby designate GRECO as a public international
organization entitled to enjoy the privileges,
exemptions, and immunities conferred by the Act. This
designation is not intended to abridge in any respect
privileges, exemptions, or immunities that such
organization may have acquired or may acquire by
international agreement or by law.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 18, 2001.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 18, 2001. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.