CELEX: 51991PC0221
Language: en
Date: 1991-06-12
Title: RE-EXAMINED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON CONTROL OF THE ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF WEAPONS

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES
                                            C0M(91) 221 final - SYN 98
                                            Brussels, 12 June 1991
                     Re-examined proposal for a
                          COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
           CN CONTROL OF THE ACQDISrEICN AND POSSESSION
                             OF WEAPONS
     (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149.2(d)
                         of the EEC treaty)
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEM3RAUD0M
At its sitting of 15 May, Parliament aooepted the common position adopted
by the Council on 4 February, subject to one amendment.
The present proposal takes account of that amendment, which the ^Commission
aooepts as being a drafting improvement which does not alter the substance
of the text.
Since it is to the whole of the second subparagraph of Article 12(2) that
Article 8(3) relates, the reference to the latter provision has been moved
 in the new version to make clear that it does not cover only the statement
 entered on the pass (which, in reality, is merely a consequence of the
 prohibition or the subjection to authorization).
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 ---pagebreak---                 KE-EXAMINED PBOPOSAL FOR A OCCNCTL DIRECTIVE
                CN CONTROL OF THE AOQOISITICN AND POSSESSION
                                 OF WEAPONS
In the light of the opinion delivered by Parliament (second reading) at its
sitting of 15 May 19911 on the proposal for a Council Directive ^xn control
of the acquisition and possession of weapons,2 the Commission has decided
to amend the proposal as follows:
The second subparagraph of Article 12(2) is replaced by the following:
"However, this derogation shall not apply to journeys to a Member State
which, pursuant to Article 8(3), prohibits the acquisition and possession
of the firearm in question or makes it subject to authorization;    in that
case, an express statement to that effect shall be entered on the European
firearms pass".
1  Not yet published.
2  Common position adopted by      the Council   on  4  February 1991, not
   published.
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