Polityka i handel międzynarodowy · 9.02.1995

Prohibition on Assistance to Drug Traffickers

The Bureau of International Narcotics Matters plans to issue regulations to implement Section 487 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. Sec. 2291f). Section 487(a) directs the President to take all reasonable steps to ensure that assistance provided under the Foreign Assistance Act or the Arms Export Control Act is not provided to or through any individual or entity that the President knows or has reason to believe: (1) has been convicted of a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate, any law or regulation of the United States, a State or the District of Columbia, or a foreign country relating to narcotic or psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances; or (2) is or has been an illicit trafficker in any such controlled substance or is or has been a knowing assistor, abettor, conspirator, or colluder with others in the illicit trafficking of any such substance. The law further directs that regulations be issued to carry out the section and be submitted to Congress before they take effect. The proposed regulation will be set forth in a new part of the Code of Federal Regulations, 22 CFR part 140, which will establish a single governmentwide enforcement mec