Proposal for a Council Regulation suspending, for an additional limited period of time, Council Regulation (EC) No 2151/1999 imposing a ban on flights between the territories of the Community and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia other than the Republic of Montenegro or the Province of Kosovo, and modifying Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000
Date: 2000-07-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Yugoslavia, air transport, international sanctions, suspension of sentence

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 26.7.2000
COM(2000) 490 final

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

suspending, for an additional limited period of time, Council Regulation (EC) No
2151/1999 imposing a ban on flights between the territories of the Community and the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia other than the Republic of Montenegro or the Province
of Kosovo, and modifying Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

(1)

(2)

(3)

By means of Council Regulation (EC) No 2151/1999 of 11 October 1999 the Council
confirmed the ban on flights between the territories of the Community and the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), first imposed in May 1999, granting exemptions for
flights to the Republic of Montenegro and the Province of Kosovo.

Further to Common Position 2000/176/CFSP of 28 February 2000, the ban on flights
was suspended by means of Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000 of 20 March 2000.
This suspension is effective until 28 August 2000.

The attached proposal is for an extension of this suspension, under the conditions
defined in Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000, for an additional period of seven
months, as foreseen in Common Position 2000/... /CFSP of ...July 2000.

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Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

suspending, for an additional limited period of time, Council Regulation (EC) No
2151/1999 imposing a ban on flights between the territories of the Community and the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia other than the Republic of Montenegro or the Province
of Kosovo, and modifying Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles
60 and 301 thereof,

Having regard to Common Position 2000/.../CFSP of .. July 2000, adopted by the Council on
the basis of Article 15 of the Treaty on European Union, concerning a suspension, for an
additional
limited period of time, of Article 4 of Common Position 1999/318/CFSP
concerning restrictive measures against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia1,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission2,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The Council determined that the ban on flights between the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and the European Community, should be suspended for an additional
limited period of time, while maintaining its overall policy framework of applying
maximum pressure on President Milosevic and his regime;

The ban on flights,
laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 2151/1999, was
suspended until 28 August 2000 by means of Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000
under a number of specific conditions;

Monitoring of the implementation of that suspension has not shown that
conditions need to be amended;

these

Therefore, it is appropriate to extend the validity of Council Regulation (EC) No
607/2000 until the end of March 2001.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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Article 1

Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000 shall be replaced by the following:

“1. This Regulation shall apply

- within the territory of the Community including its airspace,

- on board any aircraft or any vessel under the jurisdiction of a Member State,

- to any person elsewhere who is a national of a Member State,

- to any body which is incorporated or constituted under the law of a Member
State

2.

It shall apply until 31 March 2001.”

Article 2

In Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 607/2000, the following paragraph 3 is inserted:

“3.
In case of any direct or indirect action by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
which negatively affects the normal commercial operational and business activities
of Community air carriers operating under this Regulation, the Council shall, on the
basis of a Commission proposal, take proportional and effective measures by putting
additional conditions on the operation of Yugoslav air carriers (as defined in Article
1(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2151/1999) to the Community, or by limiting or
prohibiting such operations, where necessary.”

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of
the European Communities.

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels,

For the Council
The President

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