PARTNER with ASEAN, CERN, and PIF Act

This bill lets the President treat three groups—the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)—like other recognized international organizations under an existing U.S. law. It authorizes the President to extend that law’s provisions to these groups, on terms the President sets, in the same way the law already applies to other public international bodies the U.S. works with . The goal is to make cooperation with these organizations clearer and more consistent under U.S. rules .

• Key points
  • Affected groups: ASEAN, CERN, PIF
  • What changes: The President is allowed to extend existing legal provisions for international organizations to these three groups, under conditions the President decides
  • When: When the President chooses to extend those provisions