Explanatory note

This Order made under the United Nations Act 1946 amends The North Korea (United Nations Measures) (Overseas Territories) Order 2006 (S.I.2006/3327)(“the principal Order”) to provide a means for persons in the Overseas Territories, affected by the prohibition on the supply or export of luxury goods to North Korea, to obtain an opinion from the customs and excise authority in the Territory giving guidance as to whether or not a licence is considered to be required to be obtained from the Governor in order to authorise the supply or export of the goods in question.

The need for such provision arises due to the absence of any definition of luxury goods, prohibited to be exported to North Korea, in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 of 14th October 2006, and due to certain imprecise definitions relating to such goods in the principal Order, which replicated the proposed EC Regulation list of luxury goods now incorporated in Council Regulation (EC) No.329/2007 adopted by the Council of the European Union on 27 March 2007 in implementation of the Resolution. Schedule 4 of the principal Order is deleted as it is now unnecessary. The opportunity has also been taken to incorporate certain definitions omitted from the principal Order.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.