Recommendation of the Council concerning the Application of Competition Laws and Policy to Patent and Know-How Licensing Agreements [ Recommendation of the Council Concerning Action Against Restrictive Business Practices relating to the Use of Patents and Licenses ]

Agreement on the Establishment of the Commission to Clarify Past Human Rights Violations and Acts of Violence That Have Caused the Guatemalan Population to Suffer

Habib Soussou was listed on 20 August 2015 pursuant to paragraphs 11 and 12 (b) and (e) of resolution 2196 (2015) as ‘engaging in or providing support for acts that undermine the peace, stability or security of the CAR, including acts that threaten or violate transitional agreements, or that threaten or impede the political transition process, including a transition toward free and fair democratic elections, or that fuel violence; ’‘involved in planning, directing, or committing acts that violate international human rights law or international humanitarian law, as applicable, or that constitute human rights abuses or violations, in the C ...[+++]AR, including acts involving sexual violence, targeting of civilians, ethnic- or religious-based attacks, attacks on schools and hospitals, and abduction and forced displacement’ and; ‘obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the CAR, or access to, or distribution of, humanitarian assistance in the CAR’.

14. Welcomes the fact that, in a manner broadly consistent with various regional transfer control agreements and instruments, including the Council Common Position of 2008, arms transfers may not be authorised if States Parties consider that there is an overriding risk that the weapons will undermine peace and security or may be used to: (1) violate humanitarian law, (2) violate human rights law, (3) commit organised crime or (4) commit terrorism; encourages all States Parties to develop elaborative guidance so that these criteria are applied with due rigour and consistency;

14. Welcomes the fact that, in a manner broadly consistent with various regional transfer control agreements and instruments, including the Council Common Position of 2008, arms transfers may not be authorised if States Parties consider that there is an overriding risk that the weapons will undermine peace and security or may be used to: (1) violate humanitarian law, (2) violate human rights law, (3) commit organised crime or (4) commit terrorism; encourages all States Parties to develop elaborative guidance so that these criteria are applied with due rigour and consistency;

5. Paragraph 2 shall be without prejudice to the right of the Member States to grant rights of use for and to allow actual use of a harmonised band before the adoption of an implementing act in respect of that band, subject to compliance with the second subparagraph of this paragraph, or in advance of the harmonised date established by an implementing act for that band.