Modernizing Sanctions To Combat Terrorism

Citation84 FR 48041
Record Number2019-19895
Published date12 September 2019
SectionPresidential Documents
CourtExecutive Office Of The President
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2019)]
                [Presidential Documents]
                [Pages 48041-48043]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-19895] Presidential Documents
                Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 177 / Thursday, September 12, 2019 /
                Presidential Documents
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                Title 3--
                The President
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                 Executive Order 13886 of September 9, 2019
                
                Modernizing Sanctions To Combat Terrorism
                 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.), the
                 United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C.
                 287c) (UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, United States
                 Code; and in view of multiple United Nations Security
                 Council resolutions, including Resolution 1373 of
                 September 28, 2001, Resolution 1526 of January 30,
                 2004, Resolution 1988 of June 17, 2011, Resolution 1989
                 of June 17, 2011, Resolution 2253 of December 17, 2015,
                 Resolution 2255 of December 21, 2015, Resolution 2368
                 of July 20, 2017, and Resolution 2462 of March 28,
                 2019,
                 I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of
                 America, find that it is necessary to consolidate and
                 enhance sanctions to combat acts of terrorism and
                 threats of terrorism by foreign terrorists, acts that
                 are recognized and condemned in the above-referenced
                 United Nations Security Council resolutions.
                 Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national emergency
                 declared in Executive Order 12947 of January 23, 1995,
                 and revoke Executive Order 12947, as amended by
                 Executive Order 13099 of August 20, 1998. In order to
                 build upon the initial steps taken in Executive Order
                 12947, to further strengthen and consolidate sanctions
                 to combat the continuing threat posed by international
                 terrorism, and in order to take additional steps to
                 deal with the national emergency declared in Executive
                 Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, with respect to the
                 continuing and immediate threat of grave acts of
                 terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign
                 terrorists, which include acts of terrorism that
                 threaten the Middle East peace process, it is hereby
                 ordered as follows:
                 Section 1. Section 1 of Executive Order 13224 is hereby
                 amended to read as follows:
                 ``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:
                (i) persons listed in the Annex to this order;
                (ii) foreign persons determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation
                with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and the Secretary
                of Homeland Security:
                 (A) to have committed or have attempted to commit, to pose a significant
                risk of committing, or to have participated in training to commit acts of
                terrorism that threaten the security of United States nationals or the
                national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States; or
                 (B) to be a leader of an entity:
                (1) listed in the Annex to this order; or
                (2) whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to a
                determination by the Secretary of State pursuant to this order;
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                (iii) persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
                with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the
                Attorney General:
                 (A) to be owned, controlled, or directed 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;
                 (B) to own or control, directly or indirectly, any person whose property
                and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order;
                 (C) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
                material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in
                support of, an act of terrorism as defined in section 3(d) of this order,
                or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant
                to this order;
                 (D) to have participated in training related to terrorism provided by any
                person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to
                this order;
                 (E) to be a leader or official of an entity whose property and interests
                in property are blocked pursuant to:
                (1) a determination by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to this
                order; or
                (2) subsection (a)(iv) of this section; or
                 (F) to have attempted or conspired to engage in any of the activities
                described in subsections (a)(iii)(A) through (E) of this section;
                (iv) persons whose property and interests in property were blocked pursuant
                to Executive Order 12947, as amended, on or after January 23, 1995, and
                remained blocked immediately prior to the effective date of this order.
                 (b) The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
                 authorized to prohibit the opening, and prohibit or
                 impose strict conditions on the maintaining, in the
                 United States, of a correspondent account or payable-
                 through account of any foreign financial institution
                 that the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
                 with the Secretary of State, has determined, on or
                 after the effective date of this order, has knowingly
                 conducted or facilitated any significant transaction on
                 behalf of any person whose property and interests in
                 property are blocked pursuant to this order.
                 (c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) 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 prior to the effective date
                 of this order.''
                 Sec. 2. Section 5 of Executive Order 13224 is amended
                 by replacing the reference to subsection 1(d) with a
                 reference to subsection 1(a)(iii).
                 Sec. 3. (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
                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.
                 (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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                 Sec. 4. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern
                 daylight time on September 10, 2019.
                
                
                 (Presidential Sig.)
                 THE WHITE HOUSE,
                 September 9, 2019.
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