[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 19, 2019)]
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Part IV





The President





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Executive Order 13863--Taking Additional Steps to Address the National 
Emergency With Respect to Significant Transnational Criminal 
Organizations
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                Executive Order 13863 of March 15, 2019

                
Taking Additional Steps to Address the National 
                Emergency With Respect to Significant Transnational 
                Criminal Organizations

                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.), the National 
                Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 
                301 of title 3, United States Code;

                I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of 
                America, in order to take additional steps to deal with 
                the national emergency with respect to significant 
                transnational criminal organizations declared in 
                Executive Order 13581 of July 24, 2011 (Blocking 
                Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations), in 
                view of the evolution of these organizations as well as 
                the increasing sophistication of their activities, 
                which threaten international political and economic 
                systems and pose a direct threat to the safety and 
                welfare of the United States and its citizens, and 
                given the ability of these organizations to derive 
                revenue through widespread illegal conduct, including 
                acts of violence and abuse that exhibit a wanton 
                disregard for human life as well as many other crimes 
                enriching and empowering these organizations, hereby 
                order:

                Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 3 of Executive 
                Order 13581 is hereby amended to read as follows:

                    ``(e) the term ``significant transnational criminal 
                organization'' means a group of persons that includes 
                one or more foreign persons; that engages in or 
                facilitates an ongoing pattern of serious criminal 
                activity involving the jurisdictions of at least two 
                foreign states, or one foreign state and the United 
                States; and that threatens the national security, 
                foreign policy, or economy of the United States.''

                Sec. 2. (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.

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                    (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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    March 15, 2019.

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