12. 2. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 36/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 302/93 of 8 February 1993 on the establishment of a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug : Addiction THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European . Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic énd Social Committee (%), : Whereas, at its meeting in Dublin on 25 and 26 June 1990, the. European Council : — ratified the ‘Guidelines for a European Plan to Combat Drugs’ submitted to it by the BEuropean Committee to Combat Drugs (Celad), and in particular the recommendation that ‘a study be conducted by experts on the existing sources of information, their reliability and their usefulness, and on the need for and possible scope of a European Drugs Monitoring Centre and the financial implications of setting up such a Centre, on the understanding that the brief of this Centre would cover not only the social and health aspects but also other drugs-related aspects, including trafficking and repression’, — stressed that it was the responsibility of each Member State to develop an appropriate drug demand reduc- tion programme and considered that effective action by each Member State, supported by joint action of the Twelve and the Community, should be a main priority over the coming years; Whereas the findings of the feasibility study on the Centre and the European Plan to Combat Drugs () OJ No C 43, 18. 2. 1992, p. 2. () OJ No C 150, 15. 6. 1992, p. 54. () OJ No C 223, 31. 8. 1992, p. 26. submitted to the Rome European Council on 13 and 14 December 1990 should be borne in mind; Whereas the European Council, at its meeting in Luxem- bourg on 28 and 29 June 1991, ‘approved the setting up of a European Drugs Monitoring Centre on the under- standing that the practical arrangements for its imple- mentation, e.g. its size, institutional structure and computer systems, are still to be discussed and instructed Celad to continue work to that end and bring it rapidly to a successful conclusion, in liaison with the Commission and the other relevant political bodies’; ‘ Whereas the European Council, at its meeting in Maas- tricht on 9 and 10 December 1991, ‘invited the institu- tions of the Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European Drugs Centre could be adopted before 30 June 1992; Whereas the Community concluded, by Decision 90/611/EEC (%), the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Vienna Conven- tion’, and deposited a declaration of competence regarding Article 27 thereof (¥); Whereas the Council . adopted Regulation (EEC) No 3677/90 (%) for the implementation by the Com- munity of the system provided for in Article 12 of the aforementioned Vienna Convention for monitoring trade in certain substances ; ‘ Whereas the Council adopted Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering (), which aims in particular to conibat drug trafficking ; () OJ No L 326, 24. 11. 1990, p. S6. ?) O] No L 326, 24. 11. 1990, p. 57. (9 OJ No L 357, 20. 12. 1990, p. 1. Regulation, as amended by . Regulation (EEC) No 900/92 (O] No L 96, 10. 4. 1992, p. 1). () OJ No L 166, 28. 6. 1991, p. 77.