CELEX: 51991PC0091
Language: en
Date: 1991-03-15
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING FOR THE THIRD TIME COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2340/90 OF 8 AUGUST 1990 PREVENTING TRADE BY THE COMMUNITY AS REGARDS IRAQ AND KUWAIT

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                      C0M(91) 91 final
                                      Brussels, 15 March 1991
                        Proposal for a
                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
    amending for the third time Council Regulation (EEC)
    No 2340/90 of 8 August 1990 preventing trade by the
            Community as regards Iraq and Kuwait
                (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                     EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.  By Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2340/90 of 8th August
    199o(1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No.
    542/9l(2), the Community imposed an embargo on Iraq,
    thereby implementing the Resolutions of the United Nations
    Security Council adopted following the invasion and
    subsequent occupation of Kuwait by Iraqi forces. However,
    certain medical products and foodstuffs were exempted from
    this embargo.
2.  In Resolution 686 (1991) adopted by the United Nations
    Security Council on 2 March 1991 note was taken that
    offensive combat operations had been suspended.
3.  In these circumstances it is considered desirable to
    facilitate humanitarian actions and to enlarge as of
    2 March 1991 the possibility for supplies of products
    strictly intended for medical purposes within the
    conditions laid within the relevant resolutions of the
    United Nations Security Council.
(1) OJ No. L 213 of 09.08.1990, p. 1
(2) OJ NO. L 60, 7.03.1991, p. 5
 ---pagebreak---             Draft Council Regulation (EEC) No.     /91
           of    March 1991 amending for the third time
                Council Regulation (EEC) no. 2340/90
                         of 8th August 1990
                 preventing trade by the Community
                     as regards Iraq and Kuwait
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Whereas under Regulation (EEC) no. 2340/90^), as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No. 542/91(2), trade between the Community
on the one hand, and Iraq on the other, was forbidden, with the
exception of certain medical products and foodstuffs, following
the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council
establishing an embargo against these two countries after the
invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Iraqi forces;
whereas Resolution 686 (1991) adopted by the United Nations
Security Council on 2 March 1991 has taken note that offensive
combat operations have been suspended;
whereas, in these circumstances, the Community and its Member
States consider it desirable to facilitate humanitarian actions
and, therefore, appropriate to enlarge, as of 2 March 1991, the
possibility for supplies of products intended strictly for
medical purposes within the conditions laid down in the relevant
resolutions of the United Nations Security Council;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,
(1)   OJ no. L 213 of 09.08.1990, p. 1
(2)   OJ no. L 60 of 7.03.1991, p. 5
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                            Article 1
The annex to Regulation (EEC) No. 2340/90 is completed by the
text given in annex to this Regulation as of 2nd March 1991.
                             Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels,
                                For the Council
                                The President
 ---pagebreak---                         Annex
Other products
All products other than those listed under A intended
strictly for medical purposes provided that these are
exported under the strict supervision of the Community or
the Government of the exporting Member state or by
appropriate humanitarian agencies
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