Defense and national security

Executive Order 13695: Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation Created by the Accumulation of a Large Volume of Weapons-Usable Fissile Material in the Territory of the Russian Federation

President: Barack Obama

Ended the national emergency protecting payments and property associated with Russian weapons-grade plutonium disposition.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13695 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13695 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13695 do?

EO 13695 ended the national emergency declared by EO 13159 in 2000 over litigation risks to Russian property and payments linked to disposing of weapons-usable fissile material. It revoked EO 13159 and ended the special protection that order had provided against attachment or other judicial process. The order dealt with that particular property-protection emergency; it did not resolve the broader US–Russia nuclear-security relationship.

Administration position: The order ended a narrow property-protection emergency; it did not certify that all nuclear-proliferation risks involving Russia had ended.
SignedMay 26, 2015
Earlier orderEO 13159
Emergency beganJune 21, 2000

Before and after

Before the order

EO 13159 protected specified Russian assets linked to plutonium disposition.

After the order

The national emergency and executive-order immunities ended immediately.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Treasury and StateImplement termination and noticeCompleted
Courts and partiesCease relying on EO 13159 immunityCompleted
Nuclear-security agenciesAddress other risks under separate authoritiesContinuing

What happened next

EO 13159 declared the emergency and protected specified property.

EO 13695 terminated the emergency and revoked EO 13159.