Economic Affairs - Second Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: UK SANCTIONS: PURPOSES, PRINCIPLES
AND CONTEXTS
UK sanctions policy principles
EU sanctions policy principles
The UN Context
The EU Context
CHAPTER 3: COMPREHENSIVE UN SANCTIONS—IRAQ
1990-2003
The fall and possible rise of comprehensive
sanctions
Iraq: Extensive compliance despite conflicting
objectives
The human costs
The overall record of comprehensive sanctions
CHAPTER 4: TARGETED AND GENERAL EU SANCTIONS—BURMA
Sanctions on Burma: General as well as
targeted
An ineffective impasse
Debating the way forward
CHAPTER 5: TARGETED FINANCIAL SANCTIONS
ON INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
The rapid growth of targeted financial
sanctions
The inadequacy of efforts to improve targeting
Assessing the effectiveness of targeted financial
sanctions
US extra-territorial sanctions
CHAPTER 6: TARGETED COMMODITY SANCTIONS
Regulating trade in commodities
Diamonds, conflict prevention and promotion
of good governance
CHAPTER 7: UK SANCTIONS POLICY—PRINCIPLES
AND PRACTICE
Hitting the regime rather than the people?
Exemptions which minimise humanitarian costs?
Clear and realistic objectives linked to
an exit strategy?
Effective implementation and enforcement?
Avoidance of unnecessary economic and commercial
coststo the UK?
Success, failure and sanctions
CHAPTER 8: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY TOWARDS
NORTH KOREA AND IRAN
Iran
Implications for policy towards North Korea
and Iran
CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Targeted and general EU sanctions: The case
of Burma
Targeted financial sanctions
Targeted commodity sanctions
Sanctions policy: Principles and practice
North Korea
Iran
Implications for policy towards North Korea
and Iran
APPENDIX 1: ECONOMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
APPENDIX 2: LIST OF WITNESSES
APPENDIX 3: CALL FOR EVIDENCE
APPENDIX 4: GLOSSARY
NOTE:
References in the text of the report are
as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
The Report of the Committee is published in Volume I, HL Paper
No. 96-I
The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume II, HL Paper
No. 96-II
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 96-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 96-II)
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