Legal provisions of JOIN(2012)5 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 147/2003 concerning restrictive measures in respect of Somalia

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dossier JOIN(2012)5 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 147/2003 concerning restrictive measures in respect of Somalia.
document JOIN(2012)5 EN
date July 16, 2012

Contents

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 147/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

(1)The following Article is inserted:

‘Article 3b

1. It shall be prohibited:

(a)to import charcoal into the Union if it:

(i)originates in Somalia; or

(ii)has been exported from Somalia;

(b)to purchase charcoal which is located in or which originated in Somalia;

(c)to transport charcoal if it originates in Somalia, or is being exported from Somalia to any other country;

(d)to provide, directly or indirectly, financing or financial assistance, as well as insurance and re-insurance related to the import, transport or purchase of charcoal from Somalia referred to in points (a), (b) and (c); and

(e)to participate knowingly and intentionally, in activities whose object or effect is, directly or indirectly, to circumvent the prohibition in points (a), (b), (c) and (d).

2. For the purposes of this Article, ‘charcoal’ means the products listed in Annex II.

3. The prohibitions in paragraph 1 shall not apply to the purchase or transport of charcoal which had been exported from Somalia prior to 22 February 2012.’.

(2)In Article 2a, Article 6a and Article 7a(1), references to ‘the Annex’ are replaced by references to ‘Annex I’.

(3)The Annex shall be renamed ‘Annex I’ and shall be replaced by the text of Annex I to this Regulation.

(4)The text set out in Annex II to this Regulation is added as Annex II.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.