European Community legislation

Different types of administrations are involved in drug precursor control, notably Health, Police, and Customs. Today, precursor specific controls through Customs at the EU external frontier are more important than ever. When the EU precursor legislation came into force, the EU used to be an exporter of drug precursors. Today this is still the case, but the EU has also become an importer of drug precursors. Especially those precursors than are generally not produced locally and must be brought into the EU. This situation requires particular attention from EU Customs when securing the EU external frontier.

A new legal arsenal has been put in place in the EU with the entry into force in August 2005 of a set of three regulations aiming at:

• monitoring of trade in drug precursors between the EU and countries outside the Union. It requires that all imports - including transhipment, exports and intermediary activities involving drug precursors be documented by operators, and that drug precursors be clearly identified as such. In addition, businesses trading in drug precursors have to hold a license or must be registered.

• monitoring of trade within the EU.

• implementing rules for the two regulations mentioned above, in order to establish the necessary procedures regarding licensing, and further detailed rules concerning the monitoring of trade. Imports and exports require prior individual authorisations where specific forms must be used. For transshipment consignments the operator must be able to demonstrate the licit purposes of the transaction.

Diversion of drug precursors is a problem with an obviously international dimension, spanning several continents. This is why co-operation between the EU and other countries has a very significant role to play in preventing relevant chemicals from ending up in the illicit manufacture of ecstasy and other dangerous substances.

Answer the questions:

1. What does the term”drug precursors” mean?

2. Why are drug precursors dangerous?

3. What kinds of administrations are involved in drug precursor’s control?

4. The EU has become an importer of drug precursors. Why?

5. What are EU regulations aimed at?

6. Why is ecstasy of a particular concern for the European Union?

Match the words with their Russian equivalents:

1.necessary procedures	a) кроме того, в дополнение к
2. external frontiers	b) источник беспокойства/заботы
3. a problem of international dimension	c) для того, чтобы
4. in addition	d) опасные вещества
5. leading manufacturer	e) по причине
6. in order to	f) вступать в силу
7. dangerous substances	g) необходимые мероприятия (операции)
8. according to	h) дело международной важности
9. to come into force	i) основной(ведущий) производитель
10. a source of concern	j) согласно
11. a set of regulations	k) внешние рубежи
12. on grounds of	l) ряд постановлений/директив

Fill the gaps in these sentences with a suitable preposition from the list.

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