Commission Regulation (EC) No 362/2002 of 27 February 2002 amending, for the ninth time, Council Regulation (EC) No 467/2001 prohibiting the export of certain goods and services to Afghanistan, strengthening the flight ban and extending the freeze of funds and other financial resources in respect of the Taliban of Afghanistan and repealing Regulation (EC) No 337/2000
Date: 2002-02-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Afghanistan, UN Security Council, air transport, economic sanctions, foreign capital, international sanctions

L 58/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

28.2.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 362/2002

of 27 February 2002

amending, for the ninth time, Council Regulation (EC) No 467/2001 prohibiting the export of
certain goods and services to Afghanistan, strengthening the flight ban and extending the freeze of
funds and other financial resources in respect of the Taliban of Afghanistan and repealing Regula-
tion (EC) No 337/2000

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 467/2001 of 6
March 2001, prohibiting the export of certain goods and
services to Afghanistan, strengthening the flight ban and
extending the freeze of funds and other financial resources in
respect of the Taliban of Afghanistan and repealing Regulation
(EC) No 337/2000 (1), as last amended by Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 105/2002 (2), and in particular Article 10(1),
second indent, thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 467/2001 empowers
the Commission to amend Annex I on the basis of
determinations by either the United Nations Security
Council or the Taliban Sanctions Committee.

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 467/2001 lays down the
list of persons and entities covered by the freeze of
funds under that Regulation.

On 15 January 2002 the United Nations Security
Council determined to exclude Ariana Airlines from the
list of entities and bodies subject to the measures of
paragraph 4(b) of resolution 1267 and therefore Annex I
should be amended accordingly.

On 24 January 2002 the Taliban Sanctions Committee
determined to exclude four Afghan banks from the list
of entities subject to the measures of paragraph 4(b) of

resolution 1267 and therefore Annex I
amended accordingly,

should be

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following entities shall be excluded from Annex I to Regu-
lation (EC) No 467/2001:
— Afghan Export Bank,
— Agricultural Development Bank of Afghanistan (ADB),

United Kingdom,

— Banke Millie Afghan (aka Afghan National Bank; aka Bank
E. Millie Afghan), Jada Ibn Sina, Kabul, Afghanistan, and
any other offices of Banke Millie Afghan,

— Export Promotion Bank of Afghanistan,
— Ariana Afghan Airlines (formerly known as Bakhtar Afghan
Airlines), Afghan Authority Building, PO Box 76, Ansari
Watt, Kabul, Afghanistan, and any other offices of Ariana
Afghan Airlines,
account of Ariana Afghan Airlines in Citibank, New Delhi,
India,
account of Ariana Afghan Airlines in Punjab National Bank,
New Delhi, India.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 February 2002.

For the Commission

Christopher PATTEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 67, 9.3.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 17, 19.1.2002, p. 52.