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Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1957 of 29 October 2015 amending Decision 2012/642/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against            Belarus         

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# Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1957                     

# of 29 October 2015

# amending Decision 2012/642/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Belarus

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:

(1)On 15 October 2012, the Council adopted Decision 2012/642/CFSP(1).

(2)On the basis of a review of Decision 2012/642/CFSP, the restrictive measures against Belarus should be extended until 29 February                              2016.

(3)The information relating to certain persons and entities on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures                              as set out in the Annex to Decision 2012/642/CFSP should be updated.

(4)Following the judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2015 in Case T-276/12, *Y. Chyzh and others* v *Council* (2), there are no longer grounds for keeping four entities on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures                              as set out in the Annex to Decision 2012/642/CFSP.

(5)Furthermore, the Council considers that the restrictive measures imposed on certain persons and entities designated under                              Decision 2012/642/CFSP should be suspended until 29 February 2016.

(6)Decision 2012/642/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP is hereby amended as follows:

Article 8 is replaced by the following:

# ‘Article 8

1.This Decision shall apply until 29 February 2016.                           

2.The measures referred to in Article 3(1) and Article 4, in so far as they apply to persons or entities listed in Annex II,                                    shall be suspended until 29 February 2016.                           

3.This Decision shall be kept under constant review and shall be renewed, or amended as appropriate, if the Council deems that                                    its objectives have not been met.’;                           

the Annex is hereby amended as set out in Annex I to this Decision and the term ‘Annex’ shall be replaced by ‘Annex I’ throughout                              Decision 2012/642/CFSP, except for Article 6(1), in which the term ‘the Annex’ shall be replaced by the term ‘Annexes I and II’;                           

the text of Annex II to this Decision shall be added as Annex II to Decision 2012/642/CFSP.

# Article 2U.K.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the *Official Journal of the European Union*.                  

Done at Brussels, 29 October 2015.

*For the Council*                            

*The President*                            

J. Asselborn                            

## ANNEX IU.K.

### I.The following entities are deleted from the list set out in Part B (Entities) of the Annex to Decision 2012/642/CFSP:U.K.

### II.The entries for the following persons set out in Part A of the Annex to Decision 2012/642/CFSP are replaced by the following:U.K.

## ANNEX IIU.K.**Persons and entities referred to in Article 8(2)**

### A.PersonsU.K.

### B.EntitiesU.K.

1

Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP of 15 October 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Belarus (OJ L 285, 17.10.2012, p. 1).                           

2

Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 6 October 2015. *Yury Aleksandrovich Chyzh* v *Council*, T-276/12, ECLI:EU:T:2015:748 (not yet published in the *Reports of Cases*).