Both countries suffer from Russian trade embargoes on their most important export products wines and foodstuffs.

More attention should be focused on the need for effective arms embargoes.

It is highly incumbent on Member States themselves to strictly enforce United Nations arms embargoes and to implement strong national export controls, including systems of end user certification, to prevent the uncontrolled spread of small arms.

In view of article 2 of the Law on Embargoes of 22 March 2002,

A successful export strategy hinges not on how much countries export, but on what they export and how their export sectors are integrated with other domestic economic activities.

1. As long as international norms do not impose relevant obligations, the Austrian legal system only provides for general export restrictions for armaments (embargoes), which have to be related to specific countries.

First, it would be good to have training for United Nations staff deployed to countries under arms embargoes on the monitoring of such embargoes and on related aspects, such as the collection of baseline data on and the identification of seized weapons.

Secondly, compliance with arms embargoes and sanctions regimes is crucial.

Department on Disarmament and Export Control

The special resolution of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted in 1989 explicitly prohibits embargoes on medical supplies on political grounds.

The EU therefore supports the Secretary General's recommendations on improved enforcement of Security Council sanctions, especially arms embargoes.

The second point pertains to scrupulously observing Security Council arms embargoes.

The relevant economic sanctions and arms embargoes are listed in annexes of the general guidelines for export, transit and brokerage of defence materiel, which are kept up to date by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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Transfers reported on export forms 157 149

As export and outsourcing opportunities increasingly depend on satisfying security regulations in export destinations, undemanding domestic regulation hinders technology or the outsourcing of export development.

Economic sanctions, including embargoes, are not helpful to the settlement thereof. COLOMBIA

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6640 Export restraint arrangements on textiles outside MFA

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To urge Parties that export or re export ozone depleting substances to seek information from the importing country on the import license prior to issuing export or re export license for the shipment concerned

To urge Parties that export or re export ozone depleting substances to seek information from the importing country on the import license prior to issuing export or re export license for the shipment concerned

The first is reflected in the imposition of arms embargoes in conflict areas.

The Security Council must devise new mechanisms to ensure compliance with arms embargoes.

The arms embargoes imposed by the Security Council and the European Union are implemented at the national level by virtue of the Act on the Export and Transit of Defence Materiel (Act No. 242 1990, as amended by Acts 197 1995, 893 2001, 385 2002, and 900 2002).

(v) Recommendations regarding export quotas on goods and commodities

Moratorium on the export of anti personnel land mines

Developing and developed countries differ in their use of export subsidies, the former tending to rely on a more selective approach and the latter tending to use, inter alia, export promotion regimes, export financing and export guarantees.

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