COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION of 12 January 1996 supplementing recommendation 93/216/EEC on the European firearms pass (96/129/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the second indent of Article 155 thereof,

Whereas Council Directive 91/477/EEC of 18 June 1991 on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons (1), provides for the introduction of a European firearms pass;

Whereas, in its recommendation 93/216/EEC (2) on the European firearms pass, the Commission called on the Member States to introduce the pass in conformity with the specimen annexed to that recommendation;

Whereas the specimen European firearms pass must be modified following the accession of the new Member States,

RECOMMENDS THAT:

Article 1

The Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden should introduce the European firearms pass in conformity with the specimen annexed hereto.

Article 2

The other Member States which already issue the European firearms pass in conformity with the specimen annexed to recommendation 93/216/EEC should introduce the pass as based on the specimen annexed hereto as and when stocks of the old pass run out, and at the latest by 1 January 1998.

Done at Brussels, 12 January 1996.

For the Commission

Mario MONTI

Member of the Commission

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(1) OJ No L 256, 13. 9. 1991, p. 51.

(2) OJ No L 93, 17. 4. 1993, p. 39.