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Council Decision 2011/100/CFSP of 14 February 2011 amending Common Position 2003/495/CFSP on Iraq

EU Decision 2011/100 · Adopted 14 February 2011 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Council Decision 2011/100/CFSP

of 14 February 2011

amending Common Position 2003/495/CFSP on Iraq

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

On 7 July 2003, the Council adopted Common Position 2003/495/CFSP on Iraqf1, in implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1483 (2003).

(2)

On 15 December 2010, the UNSC adopted Resolution 1956 (2010) by which it decided, inter alia, to extend until 30 June 2011 the arrangements for the depositing into the Development Fund for Iraq of proceeds from export sales of petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas and the arrangements concerning immunity from legal proceedings of certain Iraqi assets, as referred to in UNSC Resolutions 1483 (2003) and 1546 (2004).

(3)

Common Position 2003/495/CFSP should therefore be amended.

(4)

Further action by the Union is needed in order to implement certain measures,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

OJ L 169, 8.7.2003, p. 72.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature

1

In Article 7 of Common Position 2003/495/CFSP, the second paragraph shall be replaced by the following:

‘Articles 4 and 5 shall apply until 30 June 2011.’.

2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Signature

Done at Brussels, 14 February 2011.

For the Council

The President

Hoffmann R.