[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 12 (Monday, March 25, 2002)]
[Pages 452-453]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13259--Designation of Public International Organizations 
for Purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Foreign 
Corrupt Practices Act of 1977

March 19, 2002

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 
30A(f)(1)(B)(ii) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78dd-
1(f)(1)(B)(ii)) and sections 104(h)(2)(B)(ii) and 104A(f)(2)(B)(ii) of 
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (15 U.S.C. 78dd-
2(h)(2)(B)(ii), 78dd-3(f)(2)(B)(ii)), I hereby designate as ``public 
international organizations'' for the purposes of application of section 
30A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and sections 104 and 104A of 
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977:
    (a) The European Union, including: the European Communities (the 
European Community, the European Coal & Steel Community, and the 
European Atomic Energy Community); institutions of the European Union, 
such as the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the 
European Parliament, the European Court of Justice, the European Court 
of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the 
Regions, the European Central Bank, and the European Investment

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Bank; and any departments, agencies, and instrumentalities thereof; and
    (b) The European Police Office (Europol), including any departments, 
agencies, and instrumentalities thereof.
    Designation in this Executive Order is intended solely to further 
the purposes of the statutes mentioned above and is not determinative of 
whether an entity is a public international organization for the purpose 
of other statutes or regulations.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 March 19, 2002.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:10 p.m., March 20, 
2002]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
March 21.