S.I. No. 157/1992:

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (PROHIBITION OF TRADE WITH THE REPUBLICS OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) REGULATIONS, 1992.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (PROHIBITION OF TRADE WITH THE REPUBLICS OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) REGULATIONS, 1992.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1432/92 of 1 June 1992⁽¹⁾ (excluding the Annex), hereby orders as follows:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Prohibition of trade with the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro) Regulations, 1992.

2. (1) A person shall not, after the date of the making of these Regulations, contravene the relevant provisions.

(2) In this Regulation "the relevant provisions" means the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1432/92 of 1 June 1992⁽¹⁾ excluding the Annex.

3. A person may export to the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro commodities and products for strictly medical purposes and foodstuffs provided that he has been granted an export licence for those (or any of those) purposes by the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

4. Without prejudice to any other statutory provision, a person who contravenes Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both.

5. Where a person, after conviction of an offence under Regulation 2 of these Regulations, continues to contravene that Regulation, he shall be guilty of an offence on every day on which the contravention continues and for each such offence he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £200.

⁽¹⁾O.J. No. L 15¼ of 3.6.1992.

6. Where an offence under Regulation 2 of these Regulations is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of any person, being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 25th day of June, 1992.

DESMOND O'MALLEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to prohibit trade with the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro as provided for in EC Regulation 1432/92, and to provide for penalties for infringement of the prohibition.