Regulation (EU) 2019/125 concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Summary:

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 January 2019 codifying Regulation (EC) No 1236/2005.

Further information:

Regulation (EC) No 1236/2005 concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has been substantially amended several times. In the interests of clarity and rationality, that regulation should be codified.

The new regulation, proposed by the European Commission on 24 May 2018, supersedes the various acts incorporated in it while fully preserving the content of the acts being codified, and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.

Background:

In the context of a people’s Europe, the Commission attaches great importance to simplifying and clarifying the law of the Union so as to make it clearer and more accessible to citizens, thus giving them new opportunities and the chance to make use of the specific rights it gives them.

This aim cannot be achieved so long as numerous provisions that have been amended several times, often quite substantially, remain scattered, so that they must be sought partly in the original instrument and partly in later amending ones. Considerable research work, comparing many different instruments, is thus needed to identify the current rules.

For this reason a codification of rules that have frequently been amended is essential if the law is to be clear and transparent.

EUR-Lex: COM(2018)316: Proposal for a Regulation concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (codification) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2018:316:FIN

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