LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1359 of 27 July 2022 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 of 20 December 2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds (1), and in particular Article 19(3) and Article 20 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 lists the participants in the Kimberley Process certification scheme (KP certification scheme) and their respective competent authorities.
(2) At the Seventeenth Kimberley Process Plenary Meeting held in Moscow, Russian Federation, in November 2021, participants agreed to admit Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique and Qatar to the KP certification scheme.
(3) Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 provides for a list of Community authorities to be maintained by the Commission in Annex III to that Regulation.
(4) The addresses of the competent authorities of several participants in the KP certification scheme in Annex II and the addresses of Community authorities in Annex III require an update.
(5) Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee referred to in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 is amended as follows:
(1) Annex II is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation;
(2) Annex III is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 27 July 2022.
For the Commission On behalf of the President Josep BORRELL FONTELLES Vice-President