[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.