Extending Provisions of the International Organizations Immunities Act to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Civilian Office in Kosovo
Signed March 8, 2011·Barack Obama·76 FR 13497
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Extends the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided under the International Organizations Immunities Act to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, along with their officers and employees. Invokes authority granted by a 2010 law, the Extending Immunities to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Civilian Office in Kosovo Act. States that if either organization is dissolved, these privileges, exemptions, and immunities continue for the organization and its officers and employees. Clarifies that this extension does not limit any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities these organizations or their staff 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 (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C. 288), and the Extending Immunities to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Civilian Office in Kosovo Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-177, 124 Stat. 1260), it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13568 of March 8, 2011
Extending Provisions of the International
Organizations Immunities Act to the Office of the High
Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
International Civilian Office in Kosovo
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 (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C.
288), and the Extending Immunities to the Office of the
High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
International Civilian Office in Kosovo Act of 2010
(Public Law 111-177, 124 Stat. 1260), it is hereby
ordered that all privileges, exemptions, and immunities
provided by the International Organizations Act be
extended to the Office of the High Representative in
Bosnia and Herzegovina and to its officers and
employees, and to the International Civilian Office in
Kosovo and to its officers and employees. In the event
either the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia
and Herzegovina or the International Civilian Office in
Kosovo is dissolved, the privileges, exemptions, and
immunities of that organization under the International
Organizations and Immunities Act, as well as those of
its officers and employees, shall continue to subsist.
This extension is not intended to abridge in any
respect privileges, exemptions, or immunities that the
Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and
Herzegovina or the International Civilian Office in
Kosovo, or the officers and employees thereof,
otherwise may have acquired or may acquire by law.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 8, 2011.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed March 8, 2011. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.