Commission Regulation (EC) No 1883/2002 of 22 October 2002 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1081/2000 prohibiting the sale, supply and export to Burma/Myanmar of equipment which might be used for internal repression or terrorism, and freezing the funds of certain persons related to important governmental functions in that country
Date: 2002-10-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Myanmar/Burma, dual-use good, economic sanctions, export restriction, international sanctions, military regime

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1883/2002

of 22 October 2002

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1081/2000 prohibiting the sale, supply and export to
Burma/Myanmar of equipment which might be used for internal repression or terrorism, and
freezing the funds of certain persons related to important governmental functions in that country

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1081/2000 of 22
May 2000 prohibiting the sale, supply and export to Burma/
Myanmar of equipment which might be used for internal
repression or terrorism, and freezing the funds of certain
persons related to important governmental functions in that
country (1), and in particular the first
indent of Article 4
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1081/2000 lists the
persons covered by the freezing of funds under that
Regulation.

In Common Position 2002/831/CFSP of 21 October
2002 (2) the Council decided to update the Annex to
Common Position 2000/346/CFSP of 26 April 2000
extending and amending Common Position 96/635/
CFSP on Burma/Myanmar (3). That Annex contains the

list of persons subject to the restrictive measures set out
in point 5(b)(i) and (iii) of Common Position 96/635/
CFSP. Annex II
to Regulation (EC) No 1081/2000
should, therefore, be amended accordingly.

(3)

In order to ensure that the measures provided for in this
Regulation are effective, this Regulation must enter into
force immediately,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1081/2000 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

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, 22 October 2002.

For the Commission

Christopher PATTEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 122, 24.5.2000, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 285, 23.10.2002, p. 7.
(3) OJ L 122, 24.5.2000, p. 1.

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ANNEX

List of persons referred to in Article 1

1) State Peace and Development Council (SPDC):

Senior Gen Than Shwe

Vice Senior Gen Maung Aye

Gen Khin Nyunt

Lt-Gen Thura Shwe Mann

Lt-Gen Ye Myint

Lt-Gen Aung Htwe

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than

Lt-Gen Maung Bo

Lt-Gen Soe Win

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win

Lt-Gen Thein Sein

Chairman, also Prime Minister and Minister of
Defence (2.2.1933, Kyaukse)

Vice-Chairman (25.12.1937, Kon Balu)

Secretary One and Political Advisor
Kyauktan)

(11.10.1939,

Chief of Staff and Coordinator of Special Operations

Special Operations 1

Special Operations 2

Special Operations 3

Special Operations 4

Chief of Air Defence

Chief of Armed Forces Training

Adjutant General

Lt-Gen (Thiha Thura) Tin Aung Myint Oo

Quartermaster General

Lt-Gen Tin Aye

Chief of Military Procurement and Head of UMEH

2) Former members of SLORC:

Lt-Gen Phone Myint (5.1.1931)

Lt-Gen Aung Ye Kyaw (12.12.1930)

Lt-Gen Sein Aung (11.11.1931)

Lt-Gen Chit Swe (18.1.1932)

Lt-Gen Mya Thin (31.12.1931)

Lt-Gen Kyaw Ba (7.6.1932)

Lt-Gen Tun Kyi (1.5.1938)

Lt-Gen Myo Nyunt (30.9.1930)

Lt-Gen Maung Thint (25.8.1932)

Lt-Gen Aye Thoung (13.3.1930)

Lt-Gen Kyaw Min (22.6.1932, Hanzada)

Lt-Gen Maung Hla

Maj-Gen Soe Myint

Lt-Gen Myint Aung

3) Former Members of SPDC:

Commodore Nyunt Thein

Maj-Gen Kyaw Than

4) Regional Commanders:

Maj-Gen Myint Swe

Brig-Gen Ye Myint

Brig-Gen Maung Oo

Brig-Gen Maung Maung Swe

Brig-Gen Khin Maung Myint

Brig-Gen Khin Zaw

Brig-Gen Thar Aye

Brig-Gen Htay Oo

Brig-Gen Thura Myint Aung

Former C-in-C Navy

Former C-in-C Air Force (14.6.1941, Bago)

Yangon Command

Central Command

Western Command

Northern Command

Eastern Command

Triangle Command

Coastal Command

South Western Command

South Eastern Command

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Brig-Gen Myint Hlaing

Brig-Gen Soe Naing

Brig-Gen Aung Min

5) Deputy regional commanders:

Brig-Gen Nay Win

Brig-Gen Tin Latt

Col Myint Aung

Brig-Gen San Thein

Brig-Gen San Tun

Brig-Gen Soe Myint

Brig-Gen Myo Hla

Brig-Gen Tint Swe

Brig-Gen Aung Thein

Brig-Gen Thura Maung Ni

Brig-Gen Hsan Hsint

Col Myint Aung

6) Other state/divisional commanders:

Col Thein Kyaing

Col Aung Thwin

Col Saw Khin Soe

Col Kyaw Win

7) Ministers:

Maj-Gen Nyunt Tin

U Aung Thaung

Maj-Gen Saw Lwin

Maj-Gen Hla Myint Swe

U Win Aung

U Soe Tha

Lt-Gen Tin Ngwe

U Than Shwe

U Tin Win

U Pan Aung

Brig-Gen Lun Thi

U Than Aung

Maj-Gen Ket Sein

Brig-Gen Pyi Sone

Maj-Gen Thein Zaw

U Khin Maung Thein

U Aung Khin

Maj-Gen Saw Tun

U Thaung

Maj-Gen Kyi Aung

Maj-Gen Sein Htwa

North Eastern Command

North Western Command

Southern Command

Central Command

Coastal Command

Eastern Command

North Eastern Command

Northern Command

North Western Command, formerly Deputy Regional
Commander of Northern Command

South Eastern Command

South Western Command

Western Command

Southern Command

Rangoon Command

Triangle Command

Magwe Division

Chin State

Karen State

Kayah State

Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation

Minister for Industry I

Minister for Industry II (1939)

Minister for Transport

Minister for Foreign Affairs (28.2.1944, Dawei)

Minister of National Planning and Economic Develop-
ment

Minister for Cooperatives

Minister in The Prime Minister's Office

Minister of Labour and former Ambassador to the
United States of America

Minister of Rail Transportation

Minister of Energy

Minister for Education

Minister of Health

Minister of Commerce

Minister of Hotels and Tourism and also Minister of
Telecommunications, Posts and Telegraphs

Minister of
Mandalay)

Finance

and Revenue

(11.11.1934,

Minister of Religious Affairs

Minister of Construction

Minister of Science and Technology

Minister of Culture

Minister of Inmigration and Manpower also Minister
of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement

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Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan

Col Thein Nyunt

Maj-Gen Tin Htut

Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint

U Aung Phone

Col Tin Hlaing

Brig-Gen Ohn Myint

Minister of Information, formerly Deputy Minister of
Commerce

Minister for Progress of Border Areas, National Races
and Development Affairs

Minister of Electric Power

Minister of Sports

Minister of Forestry

Minister of Home Affairs

Minister of Mines

Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein

Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries

Lt-Gen Min Thein

Brig-Gen David Abel

8) Other tourism-related appointments:

Brig-Gen Aye Myint Kyu

U Aung Myint

Lt-Col Khin Maung Latt

U Myo Lwin

9) Other senior Ministry of Defence officers:

Vice Admiral Kyi Min

Brig-Gen Myat Hein

Col Khin Aung Myint

Brig-Gen Win Hlaing

Col Thein Tun

Col Hla Tun

Col Than Htay

Brig-Gen Maung Nyo

Brig-Gen Kyaw Win

Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe

Col Khin Maung Sann

Maj-Gen Thein Soe

Brig-Gen Saw Hla

Rear Admiral Soe Thane

Col Myint Swe

Lt-Col Zin Aye

Capt Kyaw Naing Myint

Brig-Gen Khi Yi

Minister at the Office of the Chairman of the SPDC

Minister
at
28.2.1935, Maymyo

the Office of Chairman of SPDC,

Deputy Minister of Hotels and Tourism

Head of Office of Minister of Hotels and Tourism

Director-General, Ministry of Hotels and Tourism

Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Hotels and
Tourism

C-in-C Navy, wife Daw Aye Aye

C-in-C Air Force

Director of Public Relations
Warfare

and Psychological

Managing Director, Directorate of Defence Procure-
ment

Director of Signals

Director of Ordnance Services

Director of Supply and Transport

Vice Adjutant General

Vice Quartermaster General

Military Appointment General

Military Appointment Colonel

Judge Advocate General

Provost Marshal

Chief of Staff (Navy)

Chief of Staff (Air)

Colonel, General Air Staff

Directorate of Defence Procurement, Ministry of
Defence

Director-General of Myanmar (Burma) Police force
(formerly commander of MOMC 21 based at Mong
Mit)

10) Members of the office of the chief of military intelligence (OCMI):

Maj-Gen Kyaw Win

Brig-Gen Myint Zaw

Brig-Gen Hla Aung

Brig-Gen Kyaw Han

Division Head

Division Head

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Col San Pwint

Major Shwe Moe

Lt-Col Khin Maung Thein

Brig-Gen Thein Swe

Brig-Gen Kyaw Thein

Brig-Gen Si Thu

Lt-Col Than Aye

Col Than Tun

Lt-Col Maung Htay

Lt-Col Hla Min

Commander Ngwe Tun

Maj Myo Khine

Capt Ko Ko Oo

Lieut Htin Aung Kyaw

Capt Soe Than

11) Former members of government:

Lt-Gen Thein Win

Brig-Gen Myo Thant

U Kyin Maung Yin

U Ohn Gyaw

Maj-Gen Kyaw Than

Brig-Gen Sein Win

Col Thein Lwin

Col Aye Myint Kyu

Brig-Gen Pyay Sone

12) Former members of government added from 2000:

Vice Admiral Maung Maung Khin

Lt-Gen Tin Tun

Lt-Gen Win Myint

Lt-Gen Tin Hla

U Aung San

Vice Admiral Tin Aye

Maj-Gen Saw Lwin

Brig-Gen Win Tin

U Win Sein

Maj-Gen Lun Maung

Brig-Gen Kyaw Saw

Brig-Gen Maung Maung

Then Saw

Brig Gen Chit Than

Brig Gen Aye Kyway

11.11.1934, Mandalay

Division Head

Division Head

Chief Foreign Liaison, OCMI

Deputy Chief Foreign Liaison, OCMI

Foreign Liaison Officer, OCMI

Foreign Liaison Officer, OCMI

Foreign Liaison Officer, OCMI

Former Minister of Transportation (1937)

Former Minister in the Prime Minister's Office

Former Minister in the Deputy Prime Minister's Office
(9.4.1931)

Former Minister for Foreign Affairs (3.3.1932)

Former Minister of Commerce

Former Minister of Sports

Former Area Regional Commander

Former Deputy Regional Commander

Former Regional Commander

Deputy Prime Minister — 23.11.1929

Deputy Prime Minister — 28.3.1930

Formerly Third Secretary of SPDC

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
Military Affairs and Quartermaster General

for

Former Minister for Cooperatives

Former Minister of Labour

Former Minister of Hotels and Tourism, 1939

Former Minister of Telecommunications, Posts and
Telegraphs

Former Minister of Culture, 10.10.1940 Kyaukkyi

Former Minister in the Prime Minister's Office

Former Minister of Information

Former Deputy Regional Commander Southern
Command, and former Minister at the Office of the
Chairman of the SPDC

Minister of Hotels and Tourism, 1939

Former Regional Commander, Triangle Command

Former Regional Commander, Coastal Command