---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 5462"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "5462"
heading: "SEED Information Center System"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/5462"
units:
  - "Chapter 63 — Support for East European Democracy (seed)"
  - "Subchapter V — Additional Seed Program Actions"
---

# §5462. SEED Information Center System

- (a) **Establishment—** The President shall establish a SEED Information Center System, using existing Executive branch agencies and acting in cooperation with the Government of Poland and the Government of Hungary.
- (b) **Functions—**
  - (1) **In general—** The SEED Information Center System shall serve as a central clearinghouse mechanism for information relating to—
    - (A) business needs and opportunities in Eastern Europe, and
    - (B) voluntary assistance to countries in Eastern Europe.
  - (2) **Private enterprise development—** The SEED Information Center System shall be organized, among other purposes, to encourage—
    - (A) the submission of economically sound proposals to the Polish-American Enterprise Fund and Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, and
    - (B) other sources of finance for the development of private enterprise in Eastern Europe.
- (c) **Location—** The SEED Information Center System shall be based jointly in Washington, District of Columbia; Warsaw, Poland; and Budapest, Hungary; and should it become appropriate, the capitals of other East European countries.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–179, title VI, § 602, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1319.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of Commerce by section 3 of Ex. Ord. No. 12703, Feb. 20, 1990, 55 F.R. 6351, set out as a note under section 5401 of this title.