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Executive Order 13240—Council of Europe in Respect of the Group of States Against Corruption

December 18, 2001

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.

GEORGE W. BUSH

The White House,

December 18, 2001.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., December 20, 2001]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on December 21, and it was published in the Federal Register on December 21.

George W. Bush, Executive Order 13240—Council of Europe in Respect of the Group of States Against Corruption Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/217684

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