CELEX: 32020D0408
Language: en
Date: 2020-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/408 of 17 March 2020 amending Decision 2013/798/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against the Central African Republic

17.3.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  LI 80/1
               
            
         COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2020/408
         of 17 March 2020
         amending Decision 2013/798/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against the Central African Republic
         THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
         Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,
         Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
         Whereas:
         
                     (1)
                  
                  
                     On 23 December 2013, the Council adopted Decision 2013/798/CFSP (1) concerning restrictive measures against the Central African Republic.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     On 31 January 2020, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2507 (2020), which extends the exemptions to the arms embargo.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Decision 2013/798/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            Point (g) of Article 2(1) of Decision 2013/798/CFSP is replaced by the following:
            
                        ‘(g)
                     
                     
                        the sale, supply, transfer or export of weapons with a calibre of 14,5 mm or less and ammunition and components specially designed for such weapons, and of unarmed ground military vehicles and ground military vehicles mounted with weapons with a calibre of 14,5 mm or less, to the CAR security forces, including state civilian law enforcement institutions, where such weapons, ammunition, components and vehicles are intended solely for support of, or use in, the CAR process of SSR, as notified in advance to the Committee;’.
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 17 March 2020.
            
               
                  For the Council
               
               
                  The President
               
               A. METELKO-ZGOMBIĆ
            
         
         
            (1)  Council Decision 2013/798/CFSP of 23 December 2013 concerning restrictive measures against the Central African Republic (OJ L 352, 24.12.2013, p. 51).