Commission Regulation (EC) No 1610/2000 of 24 July 2000 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3769/92 implementing and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3677/90 laying down measures to be taken to discourage the diversion of certain substances to the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
Date: 2000-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: acid, chemical product, drug traffic, export (EU), illicit trade, psychotropic substance, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1610/2000

of 24 July 2000

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3769/92 implementing and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No
3677/90 laying down measures to be taken to discourage the diversion of certain substances to the
illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

the Agreement or referred to in the pre-export noti-
fication requests.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(3)

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3677/90 of 13
December 1990 laying down measures
to be taken to
discourage the diversion of certain substances to the illicit
manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (1),
as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3769/
92 (2), and in particular Article 10(3) thereof,

Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 3769/92, as
last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2093/97 (3), implementing
and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3677/90,

Having regard to the Agreement on precursors and chemical
substances concluded between the Community and Chile (4),

Having regard to Section 7(a)(i) of Part B of the United Nations
General Assembly Resolution S-20/4 as adopted at the 20th
the United Nations, whereby pre-export
Special Session of
notifications can be requested for acetic anhydride and potas-
sium permanganate by contracting parties to the United
Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances,

(4)

(5)

(6)

Whereas:

Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, the Cayman Islands,
Costa Rica, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Indo-
nesia, Japan, Jordan, Macao, Malaysia, Moldova, Nigeria,
Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, the Russian Federation,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey
and Venezuela have invoked Article 12.10 of the United
Illicit Traffic in Narcotic
Nations Convention against
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances by requesting pre-
export notifications for substances in Table 1 to that
Convention, and in a number of cases, acetic anhydride
and potassium permanganate.

to this Regulation must

Annexes II and III
thus be
updated to ensure full compliance with the abovemen-
tioned Agreement and the requests for pre-export noti-
fication.

For reasons of transparency, these Annexes need to be
replaced.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Drugs Precursors
Committee,

(1)

(2)

The Community is contracting party to the United
Nations Convention against
Illicit Traffic in Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (5).

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The obligations from the abovementioned Agreement as
well as the mentioned requests for pre-export notifica-
tions for acetic anhydride and potassium permanganate
can be complied with only in so far as prior export
authorisation requirements
the
substances and countries concerned listed in Annex A to

introduced for

are

Annexes II and III
replaced by the Annex hereto.

to Regulation (EEC) No 3769/92 are

(1) OJ L 357, 20.12.1990, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 383, 29.12.1992, p. 17.
(3) OJ L 292, 25.10.1997, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 336, 11.12.1998, p. 48.
(5) Council Decision of 22 October 1990 concerning the conclusion,
on behalf of
the United Nations
Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances (OJ L 326, 24.11.1990, p. 56).

the European Community, of

Article 2

This Regulation enters
into force on the twentieth day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2000.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

Substance

Destination

Acetic anhydride (1)

Anthranilic acid (1)

Phenylacetic Acid (1)
Piperidine (1)

Argentina
Benin
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Chile
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Jordan
Lebanon
Macao
Malaysia

Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
India

Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Mexico

Mexico
Moldova
Myanmar (Burma)
Nigeria
Paraguay
Peru
Singapore
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
The Cayman Islands
Philippines
Russian Federation
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela

Mexico
Peru
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela

Peru
United Arab Emirates
United States of America
Venezuela

(1) This includes the salts of these substances, except for sulphuric acid and hydrochloric acid whenever the existence of such salts is

possible.

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ANNEX III

Substance

Destination

Methylethyl ketone (1)
Toluene (1)
Sulphuric acid (1)

Potassium permanganate (1)

Acetone (1)
Ethyl ether (1)

Hydrochloric acid

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras

Argentina
Benin
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Jordan
Macao
Malaysia

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iran
Lebanon

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iran

Hong Kong
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Syria
Thailand
Uruguay
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela

Moldova
Nigeria
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
Cayman Islands
Philippines
Russian Federation
Turkey
Uruguay
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela

Mexico
Myanmar (Burma)
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Singapore
Syria
Thailand
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
Venezuela

Lebanon
Myanmar (Burma)
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Singapore
Syria
Thailand
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
Venezuela

(1) This includes the salts of these substances, except for sulphuric acid and hydrochloric acid whenever the existence of such salts is

possible.’