20.2.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 45/1 (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 143/2010 OF THE COUNCIL of 15 February 2010 temporarily withdrawing the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance provided for under Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 with respect to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 (1), and in particular Article 19(4) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, Whereas: (1) Pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008, in particular Articles 9 and 10(6) thereof, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (hereinafter referred to as ‘Sri Lanka’) is a beneficiary country of the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance granted within the European Union’s scheme of generalised tariff preferences. (2)  Commission Decision 2008/938/EC (3), which includes Sri Lanka in the list of countries beneficiary of the special incentive arrangement for sustainable devel- opment and good governance for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011, noted that Sri Lanka’s fulfillment of the qualifying criteria for the arrangement relating to the three human rights conventions was the subject of an investigation () OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1. (%) Commission Decision 2008/938/EC of 9 December 2008 on the list of the beneficiary countries which qualify for the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance, provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 (O] L 334, 12.12.2008, p. 90). initiated under Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 of 27 June 2005 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences (3). (3)  Reports, statements and information of the United Nations as well as other publicly available reports and information from other relevant sources, including non- governmental organisations, available to the European Commission (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commission’) indicated that the national legislation of Sri Lanka incor- porating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, was not being effectively ~ implemented.  The three  conventions mentioned are listed as core human rights conventions respectively in points 1, 5 and 6 of Annex III, Part A, to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008. )  Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 provides for the temporary withdrawal of the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance granted pursuant to that Regulation, in particular if the national legislation incorporating the conventions referred to in Annex III to that Regulation, which have been ratified in fulfilment of the requirements of Article 8(1) and (2) of that Regulation, is not effectively implemented. (5) By Commission Decision 2008/803/EC (), an investi- gation was initiated in order to establish ‘whether the national legislation of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka incorporating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Rights of the Child is effectively implemented'. () O] L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1. (*) Commission Decision 2008/803/EC of 14 October 2008 providing for the initiation of an investigation pursuant to Article 18(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 with respect to the effective implementation of certain human rights conventions in Sri Lanka (O] L 277, 18.10.2008, p. 34).