---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 279c"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "279c"
heading: "Congressional authority necessary for acceptance of new obligations in Organization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/279c"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter VI — United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization"
---

# §279c. Congressional authority necessary for acceptance of new obligations in Organization


Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall on behalf of the United States accept any amendment under paragraph 1 of article XX of the Constitution of the Organization involving any new obligation for the United States.


## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 4, 59 Stat. 530.)