Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) preventing the supply of certain goods to Angola
Date: 1993-10-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP-EU Convention, Angola, national independence, petroleum, political group, trading operation

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

COM(93)  480flnal 

Brussels,  1 October  1993 

Proposal  for a 

rfflfNçii R E L A T I ON  (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 

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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. 

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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 

CN  c«Mlr 

Product  description 

2709 

2710 

Petroleum  oils  and  oils  obtained  from  bituminous  minerals,  crude 

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 

2714 

Z7\S 

Petroleum  coke,  petroleum  bitumen  and  other  residues  of  petroleum  oils  or  of  oils 
obtained  from  bituminous  minerals 

Bitumen  and  asphalt,  natural ;  bituminous  or  oil  shale  and  tar  sands; asphaltites  and 
asphaltic  rocks 

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 4 1 00 

o  Xylene 

2902 42 00 

m- Xylene 

29(12 4 J 00 

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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