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The Yugoslavia (Prohibition of Flights) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

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Explanatory Note

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These Regulations specify the sanctions that may be imposed where the following provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2151/1999 imposing a ban on flights between the European Community and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia other than authorised flights serving the Republic of Montenegro or the Province of Kosovo. Those provisions are those set out—

(a)  in article 1, which prohibits the take off from or landing in the United Kingdom of—U.K.

aircraft operated, directly or indirectly, by a Yugoslav carrier

aircraft registered in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

civil aircraft operated for commercial or private purposes if it has taken off from or is destined to land in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

(b)  in article 5, which prohibits the participation, knowingly and intentionally, in related activities, the object or effect of which is, directly or indirectly, to circumvent the provisions of articles 1 and 2 of the Council Regulation*.U.K.

These sanctions do not apply where article 102 of the Air Navigation (No. 2) Order 1995 is contravened.

Council Regulation (EC) 2151/1999 superseded Council Regulation (EC) No. 1064/1999, which prohibited any civil aircraft being flown to or from anywhere in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and exempts from the previous ban flights by Montenegro Airlines, whose fleet carries Yugoslavian registration, and non-Federal Republic of Yugoslavia airlines operating to the Republic of Montenegro or the Province of Kosovo.

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