Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the Situation in the Western Balkans

Executive Order 14140 of January 8, 2025

Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the
Situation in the Western Balkans

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)
(NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section
301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States
of America, in view of events in the Western Balkans,
including continued attempts by individuals to
challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Western Balkans nations, to undermine post-war
agreements and institutions, to engage in significant
corruption that erodes the rule of law and trust in
democratic governance, and to evade United States
Government sanctions, and in order to take additional
steps with respect to the national emergency declared
in Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001 (Blocking
Property of Persons Who Threaten International
Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans), as
amended by Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003
(Termination of Emergencies With Respect to Yugoslavia
and Modification of Executive Order 13219 of June 26,
2001), and expanded in scope by Executive Order 14033
of June 8, 2021 (Blocking Property and Suspending Entry
Into the United States of Certain Persons Contributing
to the Destabilizing Situation in the Western Balkans),
hereby order:

Section 1. Amendments to Executive Order 14033.
Executive Order 14033 is hereby amended by striking
section 1 and inserting, in lieu thereof, the
following:

    “Section 1. (a) All property and interests in
property that are in the United States, that hereafter
come within the United States, or that are or hereafter
come within the possession or control of any United
States person of the following persons are blocked and
may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or
otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State:

(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or
indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, actions or policies that
threaten the peace, security, stability, or territorial integrity of any
area or state in the Western Balkans;

(ii) to be responsible for or complicit in, including by involvement in
developing, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to
engage in, actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or
institutions in the Western Balkans;

(iii) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or
indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, a violation of, or an act
that has obstructed or threatened the implementation of, any regional
security, peace, cooperation, or mutual recognition agreement or framework
or accountability mechanism, or to pose a significant risk of committing
such an act, related to the Western Balkans, including the Prespa Agreement
of 2018; the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001; United Nations Security
Council Resolution 1244; the Dayton Accords; or the Conclusions of the
Peace Implementation Conference Council held in London in December

1995, including the decisions or conclusions of the High Representative,
the Peace Implementation Council, or its Steering Board; or the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or, with respect
to the former Yugoslavia, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal
Tribunals;

(iv) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or
indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, serious human rights abuse in
the Western Balkans;

(v) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or
indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, corruption related to the
Western Balkans, including corruption by, on behalf of, or otherwise
related to a government in the Western Balkans, or a current or former
government official at any level of government in the Western Balkans, such
as the misappropriation of public assets, expropriation of private assets
for personal gain or political purposes, or bribery;

(vi) to be a leader, official, or member of an entity, including a
government entity, that has engaged in, or attempted to engage in, any of
the activities described in subsections (1)(a)(i)-(v) of this order, or
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this
order;

(vii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in
support of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to this order;

(viii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act
for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order;

(ix) to own or control, directly or indirectly, any person whose property
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(x) to be a spouse or adult child of any person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to subsections (1)(a)(i)-(v) of
this order.

    (b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this
section apply except to the extent provided by
statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or
licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and
notwithstanding any contract entered into or any
license or permit granted before the date of this
order.”

Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) 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 persons.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    January 8, 2025.