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PUBLIC LAW 102-583—NOV. 2, 1992 106 STAT. 4927 Not later than January 1 of each year, the President shall notify the appropriate committees of the Congress of which countries have been determined to be m£gor drug-transit countries, and which countries have been determined to be msgor illicit drug producing countries, for purposes of this Act. "(i) EFFECTIVE DATES OF SECTIONS.— This section applies only during fiscal years 1993 and 1994. During those fiscal years, section 490A does not apply and the definitions provided in section 481(e)(2) and (5) do not apply.

  • «£€. 490A. ANNUAL CERTIFICATION PROCEDURES AFTER SEPTEM-

BER 30, 1994. "(a) WITHHOLDING OF BILATERAL ASSISTANCE AND OPPOSITION TO MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE.— "(1) BILATERAL ASSISTANCE. —Fifty percent of the United States assistance allocated each fiscal year in the report required by section 653 for each msgor illicit drug producing country or major drug-transit country shall be withheld from obligation and expenditure, except as provided in subsection (b). "(2) MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE.— The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to vote, on and after March 1 of each year, against any loan or other utilization of the funds of their respective institution to or for any mi^or iliicit drug producing country or major drug-transit country, except as provided in subsection (b). For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'multilateral development bank' means the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. " (b) CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE. — "(1) WHAT MUST BE CERTIFIED. — Subject to subsection (d), the assistance withheld from a country pursuant to subsection (a)(l) may be obligated and expended, and the requirement of subsection (a)(2) to vote against multilateral development bank assistance to a country shall not apply, if the President determines and certifies to the Congress, at the time of the submission of the report required by section 489A(a), that— "(A) during the previous year the country has cooperated fully with the United States, or has taken adequate steps on its own— "(i) in satisfying the goals agreed to in an applicable bilateral narcotics agreement with the United States (as described in paragraph (2)) or a multilateral agreement which achieves the objectives of paragraph (2), "(ii) in preventing narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances produced or processed, in whole or in part, in such country or transported through such country, from being sold illegally within the jurisdiction of such country to United States Government personnel or their dependents or from being transported, directly or indirectly, into the United States, President. 22 USC 2291k.