---
kind: "executive_order"
citation: "E.O. 13377"
number: "13377"
title: "Designating the African Union as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities"
president: "George W. Bush"
signing_date: "2005-04-13"
publication_date: "2005-04-18"
url: "https://uscodex.org/eo/13377"
---

# Executive Order 13377: Designating the African Union as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities

*By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 1 and 12 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 and 288f-2), as amended by section 569(h) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 (Division D of Public Law 108-447), it is hereby ordered as follows:*

## Sec. 1 — Designation


The African Union is hereby designated as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided by the International Organizations Immunities Act.


## Sec. 2 — Non-Abridgement


The designation in section 1 of this order is not intended to abridge in any respect privileges, exemptions, or immunities that the African Union otherwise may have acquired or may acquire by law.


## Sec. 3 — Revocation


Executive Order 11767 of February 19, 1974, is revoked.