Council Regulation (EEC) No 811/91 of 27 March 1991 amending for the third time Regulation (EEC) No 2340/90 preventing trade by the Community as regards Iraq and Kuwait

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 811/91  of 27 March 1991  amending for the third time Regulation (EEC) No 2340/90 preventing trade by the Community as regards Iraq and Kuwait
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Whereas, under Regulation (EEC) No 2340/90 (1), 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, under certain  conditions, foodstuffs, following the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council establishing an embargo after the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi forces;
Whereas the United Nations Security Council adopted on 2 March 1991 Resolution 686 (1991);
Whereas, in these circumstances, the Community and its Member States, meeting within the framework of political cooperation, consider it desirable to facilitate humanitarian action in Iraq and, therefore, appropriate to enlarge, as of 2 March 1991, the  possibility for supplies of products intended strictly for medical purposes within the scope and conditions laid down in the relevant resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, and in particular Resolution 661 (1990)
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,