The Export of Goods (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) (Control) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1530

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Export of Goods (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) (Control) Order 1998

Made

22nd June 1998

Coming into force

15th July 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 1 of the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939(1) and now vested in her(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Export of Goods (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) (Control) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 15th July 1998.

2.  The export to any destination in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is prohibited of any goods specified in the Annex to Council Regulation (EC) No. 926/98 of 27th April 1998 concerning the reduction of certain economic relations with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia(3), except to the extent that the export in question is also prohibited by the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994(4).

3.  Articles 3(a) and 4 to 8 of the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994 shall apply as if article 2 above were included in that Order and as if the goods the export of which is prohibited by that article were specified in Part III of Schedule 1 to that Order.

Clinton-Davis

Minister for Trade,

Department of Trade and Industry

22nd June 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Council Regulation (EC) 926/98 prohibits the sale or supply to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of specified goods (called “equipment” in the Regulation) which might be used for internal repression or terrorism. This Order supplements that prohibition by prohibiting the export of those goods to Yugoslavia.

(1)

1939 c. 69.

(2)

S.I. 1970/1537.

(3)

OJ No. L130, 1.5.98, p.1.

(4)

S.I. 1994/1191; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/2711, 1996/2663 and 1997/323, 1008 and 2758.