Council Common Position of 26 February 2001 amending Common Position 2000/696/CFSP on the maintenance of specific restrictive measures directed against Mr Milosevic and persons associated with him and repealing Common Position 98/725/CFSP
Date: 2001-02-26
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Yugoslavia, family, head of State, international sanctions, minister, restriction of liberty

27.2.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 57/3

COUNCIL COMMON POSITION

of 26 February 2001

amending Common Position 2000/696/CFSP on the maintenance of specific restrictive measures
directed against Mr Milosevic and persons associated with him and repealing Common Position
98/725/CFSP

(2001/155/CFSP)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 15 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Common Position 2000/696/CFSP (1) maintained specific restrictive measures directed against the
former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), Mr Slobodan Milosevic and persons
associated with him while lifting all other sanctions against the FRY imposed since 1998.

In its conclusions of 22 January 2001, the Council welcomed the free and fair conditions in which
the legislative elections in Serbia in December were held. Their outcome confirms the determination
of the people of Serbia to continue the consolidation of democracy in their country.

Restrictive measures should therefore be confined to the former President of the FRY, Mr Slobodan
Milosevic, his family and persons indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (‘ICTY’).

Common Position 2000/696/CFSP should be amended accordingly.

Common Position 98/725/CFSP of 14 December 1998 on restrictive measures to be taken against
persons in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia acting against the independent media (2) should be
repealed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS COMMON POSITION:

Article 1

Common Position 2000/696/CFSP is amended as follows:

1. Article 1 shall be replaced by the following:

‘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.

Exemptions may be made in cases where the issuing of a visa is necessary for the indictee to

2.
appear before the ICTY.

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

3.
decision.’

2. The Annex shall be replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX

List of persons referred to in Article 1:

Milosevic Slobodan
Gajic-Milosevic, Milica
Markovic, Mirjana
Milosevic, Borislav

Former President of FRY, born 20 August 1941
Daughter-in-law, born 1970
Wife, born 10 July 1942
Brother, born 1936

(1) OJ L 287, 14.11.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 345, 19.12.1998, p. 1. Common Position as amended by Common Position 2000/696/CFSP.

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Milosevic, Marija
Milosevic, Marko
Milutinovic, Milan
Ojdanic, Dragoljub
Sainovic, Nikola
Stojilkovic, Vlajko
Mrksic, Mile
Radic, Miroslav
Sljivancanin, Veselin

Daughter, born 1965
Son, born 2 July 1974
President of Serbia, born 19 December 1942
Former Minister of Defence, born 1 June 1941
Former Deputy Prime Minister, born 7 December 1948
Former Minister of the Interior, born 1937
IT-95-13a, born 20 July 1947
IT-95-13a, born 1 January 1961
IT-95-13a, born 13 June 1953’.

Common Position 98/725/CFSP shall be repealed.

Article 2

Article 3

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

This Common Position shall be published in the Official Journal.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 26 February 2001.

For the Council

The President

A. LINDH