Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1818 is amended as follows:
(1)
Article 12(1) is amended as follows:
(a)
in the first subparagraph, point (a) is replaced by the following:
‘(a)
companies involved in any activities related to prohibited weapons;’;
(b)
the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘For the purposes of point (a), prohibited weapons shall mean anti-personnel mines, cluster munitions, biological and chemical weapons the use, possession, development, transfer, manufacture, and stockpiling of which is expressly prohibited by the international arms conventions to which the majority of Member States are parties, as listed in the Annex.’;
(2)
an Annex is added in accordance with the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. .
It shall apply from 30 June 2026 with regard to already existing benchmarks authorised prior to its date of entry into force.
ANNEXSupplementary provisions
ANNEX
‘ANNEX
Name of the treaty or convention prohibiting a type of weapon
Weapon type prohibited
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons (1972)
Biological weapons, as defined in the convention’s first article.
Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (1993)
Chemical weapons, as defined in the convention’s second article.
Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines (Ottawa Treaty) (1997)
Anti-personnel mines as defined in the convention’s second article.
Convention on Cluster Munitions (2008)
Cluster munition as defined in the convention’s second article.
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