2000X0696 — EN — 26.02.2001 — 001.001

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Official Journal No page date ►M1 Council Common Position of 26 February 2001 L 57 3 27.2.2001

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COUNCIL COMMON POSITION

of 10 November 2000

on the maintenance of specific restrictive measures directed against Mr Milosevic and persons associated with him

(2000/696/CFSP)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 15 thereof, Whereas: (1) In the Declaration which it adopted in Luxembourg on 9 October 2000 the Council indicated that the Union had decided to lift all the sanctions against the FRY since 1998 with the exception of the provisions directed against the former President of the FRY, Mr Slobodan Milosevic and persons associated with him as they continue to represent a threat to the consolidation of democracy in the FRY. (2) Article 3 of Common Position 2000/599/CFSP ( 1 ) stipulates that Common Positions 1998/240/CFSP ( 2 ), with the exception of Articles 1 and 2 thereof, 1998/326/CFSP ( 3 ), 1998/374/CFSP ( 4 ) and 1999/318/CFSP ( 5 ) will be revised in order to maintain only those restrictive provisions directed against Mr Milosevic and the natural persons associated with him. (3) For reasons of transparency and clarity, the provisions relating to Mr Milosevic and the natural persons associated with him should be incorporated into a single text. (4) Community level action is necessary in order to apply some of the measures listed below, Whereas: HAS ADOPTED THIS COMMON POSITION:

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Article 1

1. The ban on the issue of visas referred to in Article 4 of Common Position 98/240/CFSP and Article 1 of Common Position 1999/318/CFSP shall be confined to the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), Mr Slobodan Milosevic, his family and persons indicted by the ICTY resident in the FRY, as identified in the Annex.

2. Exemptions may be made in cases where the issuing of a visa is necessary for the indictee to appear before the ICTY.

3. The list of persons identified in the Annex shall be updated by means of a Council implementing decision.

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Article 2

The freezing of funds held abroad referred to in Article 1 of Common Position 1998/326/CFSP and Article 2 of Common Position 1999/318/CFSP shall be confined to Mr Milosevic and the natural persons associated with him.

Article 3

Common Position 1998/374/CFSP, Article 3 of Common Position 1998/240/CFSP as well as Articles 3 and 5 of Common Position 1999/318/CFSP shall be repealed.

Article 4

This Common Position shall take effect on the day of its adoption.

Article 5

This Common Position shall be published in the Official Journal.

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ANNEX



Milosevic Slobodan Former President of FRY, born 20 August 1941 Gajic-Milosevic, Milica Daughter-in-law, born 1970 Markovic, Mirjana Wife, born 10 July 1942 Milosevic, Borislav Brother, born 1936 Milosevic, Marija Daughter, born 1965 Milosevic, Marko Son, born 2 July 1974 Milutinovic, Milan President of Serbia, born 19 December 1942 Ojdanic, Dragoljub Former Minister of Defence, born 1 June 1941 Sainovic, Nikola Former Deputy Prime Minister, born 7 December 1948 Stojilkovic, Vlajko Former Minister of the Interior, born 1937 Mrksic, Mile IT-95-13a, born 20 July 1947 Radic, Miroslav IT-95-13a, born 1 January 1961 Sljivancanin, Veselin IT-95-13a, born 13 June 1953

( 1 ) OJ L 255, 9.10.2000, p. 1.

( 2 ) OJ L 95, 27.3.1998, p. 1.

( 3 ) OJ L 143, 14.5.1998, p. 1.

( 4 ) OJ L 165, 10.6.1998, p. 1.

( 5 ) OJ L 123, 13.5.1999, p. 1. Common Position as last amended and supplemented by Common Position 2000/56/CFSP (OJ L 21, 26.1.2000, p. 4).