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S.I. No. 163/1995 - European Communities (Further Discontinuation of Certain Trade With Serb Controlled Areas of Bosnia-Herzegovnia) Regulations, 1995.

S.I. No. 163 of 1995.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (FURTHER DISCONTINUATION OF CERTAIN TRADE WITH SERB CONTROLLED AREAS OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVNIA) REGULATIONS, 1995.

I, ENDA KENNY, Minister for Tourism and Trade, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 2471/94 of 10 October, 1994(1), which extends certain provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 990/93(2), hereby make the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Further Discontinuation of Certain Trade with Serb Controlled Areas of Bosnia-Herzegovnia) Regulations, 1995.

2. In these Regulations the "Council Regulation" means Council Regulation (EC) No. 2471/94 of 10 October, 1994.

3. A designated person or body shall not carry out any economic activities unless they have been authorised by a competent authority in a Member State.

4. A person who contravenes Regulation 3 of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

5. Where an offence under Regulation 4 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.

(1) O.J. No. L139/1 of 02.06.94.

(2) O.J. No. L102/14 of 28.04.93.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 27th day of June, 1995.

ENDA KENNY,

Minister for Tourism and Trade.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to further prohibit certain trade with Serb controlled areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina as provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No. 2471/94 and to provide for penalties for infringement of the prohibition.