Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Transnational Criminal Organizations

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Vol. 84

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Part IV

The President

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Executive Order 13863--Taking Additional Steps to Address the National

Emergency With Respect to Significant Transnational Criminal

Organizations

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The President

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Executive Order 13863 of March 15, 2019

Taking Additional Steps to Address the National

Emergency With Respect to Significant Transnational

Criminal Organizations

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.), the National

Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section

301 of title 3, United States Code;

I, DONALD J

thority 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.), the National

Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section

301 of title 3, United States Code;

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of

America, in order to take additional steps to deal with

the national emergency with respect to significant

transnational criminal organizations declared in

Executive Order 13581 of July 24, 2011 (Blocking

Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations), in

view of the evolution of these organizations as well as

the increasing sophistication of their activities,

which threaten international political and economic

systems and pose a direct threat to the safety and

welfare of the United States and its citizens, and

given the ability of these organizations to derive

revenue through widespread illegal conduct, including

acts of violence and abuse that exhibit a wanton

disregard for human life as well as many other crimes

enriching and empowering these organizations, hereby

order:

Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 3 of Executive

Order 13581 is hereby amended to read as follows:

spread illegal conduct, including

acts of violence and abuse that exhibit a wanton

disregard for human life as well as many other crimes

enriching and empowering these organizations, hereby

order:

Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 3 of Executive

Order 13581 is hereby amended to read as follows:

``(e) the term ``significant transnational criminal

organization'' means a group of persons that includes

one or more foreign persons; that engages in or

facilitates an ongoing pattern of serious criminal

activity involving the jurisdictions of at least two

foreign states, or one foreign state and the United

States; and that threatens the national security,

foreign policy, or economy of the United States.''

Sec. 2. (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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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 person.

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