Council Common Position of 10 November 2000 on the maintenance of specific restrictive measures directed against Mr Milosevic and persons associated with him
Date: 2000-11-10
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU visa policy, Yugoslavia, head of State, international sanctions, minister, restriction of liberty

14.11.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 287/1

(Acts adopted pursuant to Title V of the Treaty on European Union)

COUNCIL COMMON POSITION

of 10 November 2000

on the maintenance of specific restrictive measures directed against Mr Milosevic and persons
associated with him

(2000/696/CFSP)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in partic-
ular Article 15 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

In the Declaration which it adopted in Luxembourg on 9
October 2000 the Council indicated that the Union had
decided to lift all the sanctions against the FRY since
1998 with the exception of
the provisions directed
against the former President of the FRY, Mr Slobodan
Milosevic and persons associated with him as they
continue to represent a threat to the consolidation of
democracy in the FRY.

Article 3 of Common Position 2000/599/CFSP (1) stipu-
lates that Common Positions 1998/240/CFSP (2), with
the exception of Articles 1 and 2 thereof, 1998/326/
CFSP (3), 1998/374/CFSP (4) and 1999/318/CFSP (5) will
be revised in order to maintain only those restrictive
provisions directed against Mr Milosevic and the natural
persons associated with him.

For reasons of transparency and clarity, the provisions
relating to Mr Milosevic and the natural persons asso-
ciated with him should be incorporated into a single
text.

Community level action is necessary in order to apply
some of the measures listed below,

HAS ADOPTED THIS COMMON POSITION:

Article 1

1.
The ban on the issue of visas referred to in Article 4 of
Common Position 1998/240/CFSP, Article 1 of Common Posi-
tion 1998/725/CFSP (6) and Article 1 of Common Position

1999/318/CFSP shall be confined to the former President of
the FRY, Mr Slobodan Milosevic and the natural persons
associated with him.

2.
The list of persons identified or falling within the scope
of paragraph 1 shall be drawn up and updated by means of a
Council

implementing decision.

Article 2

The freezing of funds held abroad referred to in Article 1 of
Common Position 1998/326/CFSP and Article 2 of Common
Position 1999/318/CFSP shall be confined to Mr Milosevic and
the natural persons associated with him.

Article 3

Common Position 1998/374/CFSP, Article 3 of Common Posi-
tion 1998/240/CFSP as well as Articles 3 and 5 of Common
Position 1999/318/CFSP shall be repealed.

Article 4

This Common Position shall take effect on the day of
adoption.

its

Article 5

This Common Position shall be published in the Official
Journal.

Done at Brussels, 10 November 2000.

For the Council

The President

C. JOSSELIN

(1) OJ L 255, 9.10.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 95, 27.3.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 143, 14.5.1998, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 165, 10.6.1998, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 123, 13.5.1999, p. 1. Common Position as last amended and
supplemented by Common Position 2000/56/CFSP (OJ L 21,
26.1.2000, p. 4).

(6) OJ L 345, 19.12.1998, p. 1.