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Executive Order 14140 of January 8, 2025 

Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the Situation in the 

Western Balkans 

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.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration 

and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 

3, United States Code, 

I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, in 

view of events in the Western Balkans, including continued attempts by 

individuals to challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Western 

Balkans nations, to undermine post-war agreements and institutions, to engage in significant corruption that erodes the rule of law and trust in democratic governance, and to evade United States Government sanctions, and 

in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency 

declared in Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001 (Blocking Property 

of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Western 

Balkans), as amended by Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003 (Termination of Emergencies With Respect to Yugoslavia and Modification of Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001), and expanded in scope by Executive 

Order 14033 of June 8, 2021 (Blocking Property and Suspending Entry 

Into the United States of Certain Persons Contributing to the Destabilizing 

Situation in the Western Balkans), hereby order: 

Section 1. Amendments to Executive Order 14033. Executive Order 14033 

is hereby amended by striking section 1 and inserting, in lieu thereof, 

the following: 

‘‘Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the 

United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are 

or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States 

person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, 

paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined 

by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of 

State: 

(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly 

engaged or attempted to engage in, actions or policies that threaten the 

peace, security, stability, or territorial integrity of any area or state in 

the Western Balkans; 

(ii) to be responsible for or complicit in, including by involvement in 

developing, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to 

engage in, actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or 

institutions in the Western Balkans; 

(iii) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly 

engaged or attempted to engage in, a violation of, or an act that has 

obstructed or threatened the implementation of, any regional security, 

peace, cooperation, or mutual recognition agreement or framework or accountability mechanism, or to pose a significant risk of committing such 

an act, related to the Western Balkans, including the Prespa Agreement 

of 2018; the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001; United Nations Security 

Council Resolution 1244; the Dayton Accords; or the Conclusions of the 

Peace Implementation Conference Council held in London in December 


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1995, including the decisions or conclusions of the High Representative, 

the Peace Implementation Council, or its Steering Board; or the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or, with respect 

to the former Yugoslavia, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals; 

(iv) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly 

engaged or attempted to engage in, serious human rights abuse in the 

Western Balkans; 

(v) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly 

engaged or attempted to engage in, corruption related to the Western 

Balkans, including corruption by, on behalf of, or otherwise related to 

a government in the Western Balkans, or a current or former government 

official at any level of government in the Western Balkans, such as the 

misappropriation of public assets, expropriation of private assets for personal gain or political purposes, or bribery; 

(vi) to be a leader, official, or member of an entity, including a government 

entity, that has engaged in, or attempted to engage in, any of the activities 

described in subsections (1)(a)(i)–(v) of this order, or whose property and 

interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; 

(vii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, 

or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, 

any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 

to this order; 

(viii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to 

act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property 

and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; 

(ix) to own or control, directly or indirectly, any person whose property 

and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or 

(x) to be a spouse or adult child of any person whose property and 

interests in property are blocked pursuant to subsections (1)(a)(i)–(v) of 

this order. 

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to 

the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or 

licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding 

any contract entered into or any license or permit granted before the date 

of this order.’’ 

Sec. 2. General Provisions. (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 persons. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 8, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00622 

Filed 1–10–25; 8:45 am] 

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