22 USC § 5462 - SEED Information Center System

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identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s5462"
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title: "22 USC § 5462 - SEED Information Center System"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "5462"
section_name: "SEED Information Center System"
chapter_number: 63
chapter_name: "SUPPORT FOR EAST EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY (SEED)"
subchapter_number: "V"
subchapter_name: "ADDITIONAL SEED PROGRAM ACTIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 101–179, title VI, § 602, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1319.)"
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# § 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.

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

## Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

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