2000/56/CFSP: Council Common Position of 24 January 2000 amending and supplementing Common Position 1999/318/CFSP concerning additional restrictive measures against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)
Date: 2000-01-24
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU visa policy, Serbia, Yugoslavia, international sanctions, international security, restriction of liberty

L 21/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

26. 1. 2000

COUNCIL COMMON POSITION

of 24 January 2000

amending and supplementing Common Position 1999/318/CFSP concerning additional restrictive
measures against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)

(2000/56/CFSP)

— persons whose activities support President Milosevic
(including publishers,
financially

politically
editors-in-chief and SPS party members);

and/or

— leaders of

the military and police forces and those

responsible for intelligence or security services;

— persons involved in repression activities.

3.
Persons to whom the criteria referred to in paragraph
2 are no longer applicable shall be deleted from the list of
persons reported for the purposes of non-admission.

4.
Implementing Decisions taken by the Council shall be
updated as the need arises and, at the latest, every two
months.

The Presidency shall ensure that appropriate proced-
5.
ures are put in place for the purposes of implementing
paragraphs 1 to 4.

6.
Paragraphs 2 to 5 above shall also apply in respect of
the visa ban measures decided under Article 4 of Common
Position 1998/240/CFSP and Article 1 of Common Position
1998/725/CFSP.

7.
In exceptional cases, exemptions may be made if this
would further vital Union objectives and be conducive to
to prior notification by the
political settlement, subject
Member State granting the exception to the other Member
States.’

Article 2

This Common Position shall take effect on the date of its
adoption.

Article 3

This Common Position shall be published in the Official
Journal.

Done at Brussels, 24 January 2000.

For the Council

The President

J. GAMA

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in par-
ticular Article 15 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Common Position 1999/318/CFSP (1) needs
to be
amended and supplemented in the light of developments
since the date of its adoption;

The same criteria should apply in respect of the visa ban
measures decided by Common Positions 1998/240/
CFSP (2) and 1998/725/CFSP (3),

HAS ADOPTED THIS COMMON POSITION:

Article 1

Common Position 1999/318/CFSP shall be amended as
follows:

1. Recital 2 shall be replaced by the following:

‘(2) Whereas the Council has expressed its support for the
maintenance or strengthening of the sanctions targeted
at the regime, without penalising the Serbian people,’;

2. Article 1 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

1.
No visas shall be issued for President Milosevic, his
family, all Ministers and senior officials of the Federal and
Serbian Governments, and for persons whose activities
support President Milosevic.

For the purposes of paragraph 1, the Council shall
2.
identify,
in an implementing Decision, the persons to be
reported for the purposes of non-admission in the Member
States in accordance with any or all of the following criteria:
— persons indicted for crimes as defined in Articles 1 to 5
of the International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia
statute;

— the following persons: President Milosevic, his family
and all Ministers and senior officials of the Federal and
Serbian Governments;

(1) OJ L 123, 13.5.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 95, 27.3.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 345, 19.12.1998, p. 1.