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Executive Order 12884: Delegation of Functions Under the FREEDOM Support Act and Related Provisions of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act

President: Bill Clinton

Allocated FREEDOM Support Act determinations, reports and assistance functions among State, the statutory coordinator and program agencies; EO 13118 later reorganized part of the delegation.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 12884 still in effect? No. Executive Order 12884 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 12884 do?

EO 12884 delegated presidential functions under the FREEDOM Support Act and related foreign-assistance provisions. State received specified eligibility determinations and reporting duties; the statutory coordinator received strategy, directive and program functions; assistance agencies and Agriculture received program-specific duties. EO 13118 later replaced references to the International Development Cooperation Agency by assigning section 3 functions to State and preserving other agency responsibilities.

Administration position: The order treated coordinated assistance as the way to implement Congress’s post-Soviet transition program. Each underlying eligibility or funding decision still depended on the statutes and appropriations.
SignedDecember 1, 1993
Principal departmentState
Statutory coordinatorCoordinator under section 102 of the FREEDOM Support Act

Before and after

Before the order

The statutes vested numerous determinations and reports in the President without this detailed allocation among departments.

After the order

State, the coordinator and program agencies could exercise the specified functions and redelegate them where lawful.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Secretary of StateMake specified eligibility determinations and reportsAs the statutes require
FREEDOM Support CoordinatorCoordinate strategy, directives and assigned assistance functionsDuring program administration
Agriculture and program agenciesExercise subject-specific delegated functionsFor relevant activities

What happened next

EO 12884 allocated the functions.

EO 13118 reassigned former IDCA functions to State and amended section 6.

The delegation was reviewed as a legacy framework operating only where the underlying provisions remain applicable.