OBAMA AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425

Executive Order 12425


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(Jan. 3, 2009) — On December 17, 2009, an amendment to Executive Order #12425 was issued by the White House. The original version, signed on June 16, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, reads:
Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983International Criminal Police Organizations
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including Section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C. 288), it is hereby ordered that the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), in which the United States participates pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 263a, is hereby designated as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act; except those provided by Section 2(c), the portions of Section 2(d) and Section 3 relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act. This designation is not intended to abridge in any respect the privileges, exemptions or immunities which such organization may have acquired or may acquire by international agreement or by Congressional action.

Ronald ReaganThe White House,June 16, 1983.
Source: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1983.html

The EO was amended by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1995. Clinton’s amendment, Executive Order #12971, signed September 15, 1995, reads:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities upon the International Criminal Police Organization (“INTERPOL”) it is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 12425 be amended by deleting, in the first sentence, the words “the portions of Section 2(d) and” and the words “relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes.

Source: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1995.html#12971

Obama’s amendment appearing on the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425), dated December 17, 2009, reads as follows:

EXECUTIVE ORDER- – - – - – -AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOLAS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.BARACK OBAMA
According to http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-30413.pdf, Obama’s Executive Order has been renumbered to 13524.

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