Explanatory note

This Order applies to each of the territories specified in Schedule 1. It gives effect to Resolution 1493, adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations on 28th July 2003, which prohibits the delivery or supply of arms and related materiél and the provision of assistance, advice and training related to military activities to the territory of North and South Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are not party to the Global and All Inclusive Agreement on the Transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (signed in Pretoria on 17 December 2002), and to a Common Position adopted by the Council of the European Union on 17th September 2003 which applies the measures in Resolution 1493 to the whole of the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.