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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 2589-2591]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00622]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 7 / Monday, January 13, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 8, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-00622
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