Council Common Position of 8 October 2001 amending Common Position 96/184/CFSP concerning arms exports to the former Yugoslavia and Common Position 98/240/CFSP on restrictive measures against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Date: 2001-10-08
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Yugoslavia, export, international sanctions, military equipment

9.10.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 268/49

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

COUNCIL COMMON POSITION

of 8 October 2001

amending Common Position 96/184/CFSP concerning arms exports to the former Yugoslavia and
Common Position 98/240/CFSP on restrictive measures against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

(2001/719/CFSP)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS COMMON POSITION:

Article 1

Common Position 96/184/CFSP is hereby amended as follows:
in point 2(i) the words ‘the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’
1.
shall be deleted;

2. point 2(ii) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(ii) Subject to the provisions of UN Security Council Reso-
lutions 1021(1995) and 1244(1999), export
licence
applications to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Mace-
donia, to Croatia and to the Federal Republic of Yugo-
slavia shall be considered on a case-by-case basis.
This provision is adopted on the understanding that the
Member States will apply strictly the European Union
Code of Conduct for arms exports adopted on 8 June
1998. They will also take into account the objectives of
the European Union policy in the region, fundamentally
aimed at pacification and stabilisation in the area,
including the need for arms control and reduction to
the lowest possible level and confidence-building meas-
ures.’

Article 2 of Common Position 98/240/CFSP is hereby repealed.

Article 2

Article 3

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

its

Article 4

This Common Position shall be published in the Official
Journal.

Done at Luxembourg, 8 October 2001.

For the Council

The President

L. MICHEL

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

On 26 February 1996 the Council adopted Common
Position 96/184/CFSP concerning arms exports to the
former Yugoslavia (1), which was amended by Decisions
98/498/CFSP (2)
by
Common Position 2000/722/CFSP (4).

1999/481/CFSP (3)

and

and

On 10 September 2001 the United Nations Security
Council adopted Resolution 1367(2001) terminating the
to the Federal
prohibition to sell or
Republic of Yugoslavia imposed by United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1160(1998). Common Posi-
tion 96/184/CFSP therefore needs
to be amended
accordingly.

supply arms

It is understood that, with respect to arms exports to the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Member States will
apply strictly the European Union Code of Conduct for
arms exports adopted on 8 June 1998.

Having regard to the progress accomplished by the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia towards the strength-
ening and democratisation of its political structures, the
ban on the supply of equipment which might be used
for internal repression or for terrorism to the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia laid down in Common Position
98/240/CFSP of 19 March 1998 on restrictive measures
against
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (5) has
become redundant.

(5)

Community action is necessary to implement certain
measures,

(1) OJ L 58, 7.3.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 225, 12.8.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 188, 21.7.1999, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 292, 21.11.2000, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 95, 27.3.1998, p. 1.