Legal provisions of JOIN(2012)35 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran

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dossier JOIN(2012)35 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and ...
document JOIN(2012)35 EN
date December 20, 2012

Contents

Article 1

Article 1a of Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 is hereby amended as follows:

(1)the existing paragraph is numbered paragraph 1;

(2)the following paragraph is added:

‘2.   By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the competent authorities of the Member States, as listed in Annex II, may authorise, under such conditions as they deem appropriate, the sale, supply, transfer or export of equipment which might be used for internal repression as listed in Annex III provided that it is intended solely for the protective use of the personnel of the Union and its Member States in Iran, or the provision of technical assistance or brokering services or of financing or financial assistance referred to in paragraph 1(b) and (c) related to such equipment.’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 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.