COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
COM(93) 480flnal 
Brussels, 1 October 1993 
Proposal for a 
rfflfNçii RELATION (EEC) 
preventing the supply of certain goods to Angola 
(presented by the Commission) 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
The United Nat..ions Security Council, in Resolution 864 (1993) of 15 
September 1993, decided that a trade embargo concerning UNITA - limited 
to petroleum, petroleum products, arms and arms related material -
shall be effective from 25 September 1993. From that date, supplies of 
petroleum and petroleum products shall only be made through ports in 
Angola communicated to the UN Secretary General by the government of 
Angola. 
in order that the oil embargo be implemented by Member States, the 
Commission has proposed that the Council adopt the attached Regulation 
which loi lows closely tormer Regulations imposing trade embargoes (e.g. 
Irak, Libya, Serbia/Montenegro and Haiti). 
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Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC.) 
preventing the supply of certain goods to Angola 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
Whereas the United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of 
the Charter of the United Nations, has decided in its Resolution 
864(1993) of 15 September 1993, upon the measures all States have to take 
with regard to trade with Angola in order to obtain compliance by UNITA 
with the demands made by the Council in its previous Resolutions and the 
fulfillment of the "Acordos de Paz"; 
Whereas the Security Council has also called upon the UN Member States 
that these measures shall apply not withstanding the existance of any 
rights or obligations conferred or imposed by any international agreement 
or any contract entered into or any licence or permit granted prior to 
the date of adoption of Resolution 864(1993); whereas, therefore, the 
fourth ACP-EEC Convention, to which the Community and Angola are parties, 
does not pose an obstacle to the implementation of the said Security 
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Whereas t lie Community and its Member States, meeting within the framework 
o! polit ic.il coopei.it ion, have expressed their strong support for these 
measures ; 
Whereas under these conditions the Community has to restrict trade with 
Angola ; 
Whereas the Community and its Member States have agreed to have recourse 
to a Community instrument, inter alia, in order to insure an uniform 
implementation throughout the Community of these measures; 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 
and in particular Article 113 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
As from 1993, shall be prohibited: 
the sale and supply to UNITA of arms and related material of all 
types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and 
equipment and spare parts for the above-mentioned; 
the sale or supply of the petroleum and petroleum products as listed 
in the Annex, whether or not originating in the Community, to the 
territory of Angola other than through the following points of entry: 
Cahinda, Luanda, Lobito and Namibe; 
any activity the object or effect of which it is, directly or 
indirectly, t<» promote such a sale or supply. 
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Article 2 
The sale or supply to Angola of petroleum and petroleum products which is 
not prohibited under Article 1 shall be subject to prior authorization to 
be issued by the competent authorities of the Member States. 
Article 3 
This regulation shall apply notwithstanding any rights or obligations 
conferred or imposed by any international agreement or any contract 
entered into or any licence or permit granted before the entry into force 
of this Regulation. 
Article 4 
Each member State shall determine the sanctions to be imposed where the 
provisions of this Regulation are Infringed. 
Article 5 
This Regulation shall apply within the territory of the Community, 
including Its air space and in any aircraft or on any vessel under the 
jurisdiction of a Member State, and to any person elsewhere who is a 
national of a Member state and anybody elsewhere which is incorporated or 
constituted under the taw of a Member State. 
Art icle 6 
This Regulation shall enter Into force on the day of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Communities; 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable 
in a I I Member States. 
Done at 
For the CounclI 
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ANNEX 1 
CN c«Mlr Product description 
2709 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude 
2710 Petroleum nils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude ; prepara­
tions not elsewhere st>ecified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more or 
petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic 
constituents of the prcpaiatious 
2711 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons 
2712 10 Petroleum jelly 
2712 20 00 Paraffin wan containing by weight less than 75 % of oil 
ex 2712 90 'Slack wax', 'scale wax* 
2713 Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils 
obtained from bituminous minerals 
2714 Bitumen and asphalt, natural ; bituminous or oil shale and tar sands; asphaltites and 
asphaltic rocks 
Z7\S Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on natural bitumen, on petroleum 
biiumen. on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (for example, bituminous mastics, cut-
hacks) 
2901 Acyclic hydrocarbons 
2902 11 00 Cyt lohcxanc 
2902 20 Hcnzenc 
2902 JO Toluene 
2902 4100 o Xylene 
2902 42 00 m- Xylene 
29(12 4J00 p Xylene 
2902 44 Mixed xylene isomers 
2902 50 00 Slyienc 
2902 60 00 lithylbenzene 
2902 70 00 Cumene 
J'WS 11 (Ml Methanol (methyl alcohol) 
M1M I'» 1(1 l.uhiiciiiiu* preparations (imlinlm/; cutiin/> oil preparations, boh or nut release prcpa-
laiitiiis, and rust or ami coirostnu preparations and mould release preparations, based 
<ni lulu liants) and picpaiatious containing, as basic constituents, 70 % or more by 
weight of |M-iioleiiin oils m ol oik obtained from bituminous minerals but not as the 
l).IM« « Oll'.llllU-llf 
IK 11 .'I (HI Additives loi liibiitaiini; oils containing peirolouin oils or oils obtained from bitumi­
nous rnmeials 
tK.M 90 |0 IViioletuii siilpbouaies, em ludiiu» |M.-trolcum sulphonatcs of alkali metals, of ammo­
nium oi of etlianolainiiies , tliiophenateil sulphonic acids of oils obtained from bitumi­
nous minerals, anil then sails 
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