EU Council Regulation 25/2011 - Ivory Coast sanctions
The recently issued Council Regulation (EU) No 25/2011 of 14 January 2011 amends Regulation (EC) No 560/2005 and imposes "certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire".
This document informs the individual sanctions measures published by European Union governments.
The lengthy judicial proceedings in the French courts arising out of the sinking and massive oil spill from the tanker ERIKA off the coast of Brittany in December 1999, gave rise to numerous questions regarding the interaction between the international oil pollution liability conventions as incorporated into French law and other French legislation which claimants argued should apply. As a result legislation has been passed by France since the ERIKA judgements in an attempt to codify the Erika jurisprudence.
