Designating the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
Signed November 19, 2007·George W. Bush·72 FR 65653
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Designates the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act, making it eligible for certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities granted to such organizations under that law. The designation is based on U.S. participation in ITER authorized by acts of Congress, including provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and Department of Energy appropriations laws. The order clarifies that this designation does not limit or reduce any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the organization may have already acquired or may acquire under other laws.
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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 finding that the United States participates in the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization under the authority of acts of Congress authorizing such participation and making an appropriation for such participation, including sections 971 and 972 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16311 and 16312) and laws making appropriations for the Department of Energy, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13451 of November 19, 2007
Designating the ITER International Fusion Energy
Organization as a Public International Organization
Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and
Immunities
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
finding that the United States participates in the ITER
International Fusion Energy Organization under the
authority of acts of Congress authorizing such
participation and making an appropriation for such
participation, including sections 971 and 972 of the
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16311 and 16312)
and laws making appropriations for the Department of
Energy, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Designation. I hereby designate the ITER
International Fusion Energy Organization as a public
international organization entitled to enjoy the
privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided by the
International Organizations Immunities Act.
Sec. 2. Non-Abridgement. This designation is not
intended to abridge in any respect privileges,
exemptions, or immunities that the ITER International
Fusion Energy Organization otherwise may have acquired
or may acquire by law.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 19, 2007.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed November 19, 2007. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.