CELEX: 51993PC0519
Language: en
Date: 1993-10-18
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) repealing the suspension of the embargo concerning certain trade between the European Economic Community and Haiti and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1608/93 introducing this embargo

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                     COM(93) 519 final
                                                                     Brussels, 18 October 1993
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                                                      Proposal for a
                                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                                      repealing the suspension of the embargo
                      concerning certain trade between the Buropean Economic Community and
                      Haiti and amending Council Regulation (BBC) N° 1608/93 introducing this
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 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
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The developments in Haiti have led the Security Council of the United
Nations to repeal the suspension of the embargo of this country as of
23.59 hours Eastern Standard Time in the United States of America, on
18 October 1993.
Accordingly, the European Community has to repeal the suspension of its
Regulation (EEC) No 2520/93 in order to reactivate the embargo as far
as the European Community is concerned.
The present proposal envisages this repeal.
The Security Council has furthermore allowed some exceptions to the
embargo.
The present proposal therefore contains an amendment to Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1608/93 in order to provide for these exceptions in
the Community legislation instituting the embargo.
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                             Proposal for a
Council Regulation (EEC) repealing the suspension of the embargo
concerning certain trade between the European Economic Community and
Haiti and amending Council Regulation (EEC) N° 1608/93 introducing this
embargo
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) N° 1608/93 of 24 June 1993 introduced
an embargo concerning certain trade between the European Economic
Community and Haiti (1);
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) N° 2520/93 of 13 September   1993
suspended this embargo in accordance with Resolution 861 (1993) of the
Security Council of the United Nations (2);
Whereas the Security Council of the United Nations, in view of the
negative developments in the process towards the normalization of the
political situation in Haiti, and acting under Chapter VII of the
Charter of the United Nations, has adopted on 13 October 1993
Resolution 873 (1993), repealing the abovementioned suspension, while
allowing for exemptions to the reinstated embargo, to be decided upon
on a case-by-case basis by the Committee established by paragraph 10 of
resolution 841 (1993);
Whereas under these conditions the Community, in order to reactivate
the embargo, has to repeal its abovementioned Council Regulation (EEC)
N° 2520/93 and has to amend its Council Regulation (EEC) N° 16(>8/93 in
order to allow for the exemptions referred to above;
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:
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Council Regulation (EEC) N° 2520/93, suspending the embargo concerning
certain trade between the European Economic Community and Haiti, is
hereby repealed.
Article 2
The following paragraph is added to Article 2 of Council Regulation
(EEC) N° 1608/93:
"The prohibition imposed by Article 1 shall neither apply to sales of
supplies of petroleum and petroleum products listed in the Annex for
which the Committee established by paragraph 10 of Security Council
resolution 841 (1993) has granted an exception on a case-by-case basis
under the no-objection procedure in response to requests by President
Aristide or Prime Minister Malval of Haiti."
Article 3
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.
It shall be applicable as of 23.59 hours Eastern Standard Time in the
United States of America, on 18 October 1993.
Done at Brussels
For the Council
 (1) OJ N° L 155, 26.06.1993, p. 2
 (2) OJ N° L 232, 15.09.1993, p. 3
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