CELEX: 51993PC0480
Language: en
Date: 1993-10-01
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) preventing the supply of certain goods to Angola

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                              COM(93)  480flnal
                                              Brussels,   1 October 1993
                            Proposal for a
                     rfflfNçii R E L A T I O N (EEC)
         preventing the supply of certain goods to Angola
                   (presented by the Commission)
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                         EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The United Nat..ions Security Council, in Resolution 864 (1993) of 15
September 1993, decided that a trade embargo concerning UNITA - limited
to petroleum, petroleum products, arms and arms related material -
shall be effective from 25 September 1993. From that date, supplies of
petroleum and petroleum products shall only be made through ports in
Angola communicated to the UN Secretary General by the government of
Angola.
in order that the oil embargo be implemented by Member States, the
Commission has proposed that the Council adopt the attached Regulation
which loi lows closely tormer Regulations imposing trade embargoes (e.g.
Irak, Libya, Serbia/Montenegro and Haiti).
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 ---pagebreak---                                Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC.)
                 preventing the supply of certain goods to Angola
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Whereas the United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of
the Charter of the United Nations, has decided in its Resolution
864(1993) of 15 September 1993, upon the measures all States have to take
with regard to trade with Angola in order to obtain compliance by UNITA
with the demands made by the Council in its previous Resolutions and the
fulfillment of the "Acordos de Paz";
Whereas the Security Council has also called upon the UN Member States
that these measures shall apply not withstanding the existance of any
rights or obligations conferred or imposed by any international agreement
or any contract entered into or any licence or permit granted prior to
the date of adoption of Resolution 864(1993); whereas, therefore, the
fourth ACP-EEC Convention, to which the Community and Angola are parties,
does not pose an obstacle to the implementation of the said Security
l '< nine i 1 metisurea ;
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 ---pagebreak--- Whereas t lie Community and its Member States, meeting within the framework
o! polit ic.il coopei.it ion, have expressed their strong support for these
measures ;
Whereas under these conditions the Community has to restrict trade with
Angola ;
Whereas the Community and its Member States have agreed to have recourse
to a Community instrument, inter alia, in order to insure an uniform
implementation throughout the Community of these measures;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
As from        1993, shall be prohibited:
    the sale and supply to UNITA of arms and related material of all
    types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and
    equipment and spare parts for the above-mentioned;
    the sale or supply of the petroleum and petroleum products as listed
     in the Annex, whether or not originating in the Community, to the
    territory of Angola other than through the following points of entry:
    Cahinda, Luanda, Lobito and       Namibe;
    any activity the object or effect of which it is, directly or
     indirectly, t<» promote such a sale or supply.
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Article 2
The sale or supply to Angola of petroleum and petroleum products which is
not prohibited under Article 1 shall be subject to prior authorization to
be issued by the competent authorities of the Member States.
Article 3
This regulation shall apply notwithstanding any rights or obligations
conferred or imposed by any international agreement or any contract
entered into or any licence or permit granted before the entry into force
of this Regulation.
Article 4
Each member State shall determine the sanctions to be imposed where the
provisions of this Regulation are Infringed.
Article 5
This Regulation shall apply within the territory of the Community,
including Its air space and in any aircraft or on any vessel under the
jurisdiction of a Member State, and to any person elsewhere who is a
national of a Member state and anybody elsewhere which is incorporated or
constituted under the taw of a Member State.
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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 a I I Member States.
Done at
For the CounclI
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  C N c«Mlr                                       Product description
 2709           Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
 2710           Petroleum nils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude ; prepara-
                tions not elsewhere st>ecified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more or
                petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic
               constituents of the prcpaiatious
 2711           Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
 2712 10        Petroleum jelly
 2712 20 00    Paraffin wan containing by weight less than 75 % of oil
ex 2712 90     'Slack wax', 'scale wax*
2713           Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils
               obtained from bituminous minerals
2714           Bitumen and asphalt, natural ; bituminous or oil shale and tar sands; asphaltites and
               asphaltic rocks
Z7\S           Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on natural bitumen, on petroleum
               biiumen. on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (for example, bituminous mastics, cut-
               hacks)
2901           Acyclic hydrocarbons
2902 11 00     Cyt lohcxanc
2902 20        Hcnzenc
2902 JO        Toluene
2902 4 1 0 0  o Xylene
2902 42 00    m- Xylene
29(12 4 J 0 0 p Xylene
2902 44       Mixed xylene isomers
2902 50 00    Slyienc
2902 60 00    lithylbenzene
2902 70 00    Cumene
J'WS 11 (Ml   Methanol (methyl alcohol)
M1M I'» 1(1   l.uhiiciiiiu* preparations (imlinlm/; cutiin/> oil preparations, boh or nut release prcpa-
              laiitiiis, and rust or ami coirostnu preparations and mould release preparations, based
              <ni lulu liants) and picpaiatious containing, as basic constituents, 70 % or more by
              weight of |M-iioleiiin oils m ol oik obtained from bituminous minerals but not as the
              l).IM«  « Oll'.llllU-llf
IK 11 .'I (HI Additives loi liibiitaiini; oils containing peirolouin oils or oils obtained from bitumi-
              nous rnmeials
tK.M 90 | 0   IViioletuii siilpbouaies, em ludiiu» |M.-trolcum sulphonatcs of alkali metals, of ammo-
              nium oi of etlianolainiiies , tliiophenateil sulphonic acids of oils obtained from bitumi-
              nous minerals, anil then sails
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