Designating the World Organisation for Animal Health as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
Signed January 12, 2017·Barack Obama·82 FR 5323
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Designates the World Organisation for Animal Health, also known by its historical acronym OIE, as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act, making it eligible for certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided by that law. The designation does not limit any privileges or immunities the organization already has or may later acquire under other laws. The order clarifies that it does not affect the existing legal authority of federal agencies or the budgetary and legislative functions of the Office of Management and Budget, and it does not create any new legally enforceable rights for private parties against the federal government.
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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 World Organisation for Animal Health (also known by its historical acronym OIE) is a public international organization in which the United States participates within the meaning of the International Organizations Immunities Act, I hereby
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Executive Order 13759 of January 12, 2017
Designating the World Organisation for Animal
Health as a Public International Organization Entitled
To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
Section 1. Designation. 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 World Organisation for
Animal Health (also known by its historical acronym
OIE) is a public international organization in which
the United States participates within the meaning of
the International Organizations Immunities Act, I
hereby designate the World Organisation for Animal
Health as a public international organization entitled
to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities
provided by the International Organizations Immunities
Act. This designation is not intended to abridge in any
respect privileges, exemptions, or immunities that such
organization otherwise may have acquired or may acquire
by law.
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(1) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; or
(2) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(d) This order is not intended to, and does not,
impair any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity that arises as a
consequence of the designation in section 1 of this
order.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 12, 2017.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 12, 2017. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.