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Executive Order on Imposing Sanctions on Certain Persons Destabilizing Sudan and Undermining the Goal of a Democratic Transition
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.), 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, hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13067 of November 3, 1997 (Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan), and expanded by Executive Order 13400 of April 26, 2006 (Blocking Property of Persons in Connection With the Conflict in Sudan’s Darfur Region), finding that the...
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[UPDATE - On 3-5-24, OFAC implemented this EO into 31 CFR Part 546 and renamed the "Darfur Sanctions Regulations" the "Sudan Stabilization Sanctions Regulations". The below as not yet been amended to reflect this fact, but see generally General Note on the Darfur Sanctions Regulations and Underlying Authorities, EO 14098 and Relationship with the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations for more on the relationships between the various Sudan-related authorities.]
1) BACKGROUND; “COMMON NATIONAL EMERGENCY”
This EO “expand[s] the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13067 of November 3, 1997”—which is the national emergency that served as the basis for the now-repealed Sudanese Sanctions Regulations and the basis for the Darfur Sanctions Regulations—this EO is a sanctions program legally distinct from both of those. OFAC will, at some point in the...