    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 51 (Monday, December 24, 2001)]
    [Page 1813]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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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.