Notice for the attention of the persons and entities added to the list referred to in Articles 2, 3 and 7 of Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban, by virtue of Commission Regulation (EC) No 184/2009
Date: 2009-03-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person, restriction of liberty, terrorism

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OTHER ACTS

COMMISSION

Notice for the attention of the persons and entities added to the list referred to in Articles 2, 3
and 7 of Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures
directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida
network and the Taliban, by virtue of Commission Regulation (EC) No 184/2009

(2009/C 56/12)

Common Position 2002/402/CFSP (1) calls upon the Community to freeze the funds and economic
1.
resources of Usama bin Laden, members of the Al-Qaida organisation and the Taliban and other individuals,
groups, undertakings and entities associated with them, as referred to in the list drawn up pursuant to
UNSCR 1267(1999) and 1333(2000) to be updated regularly by the UN Committee established pursuant to
UNSCR 1267(1999).

The list drawn up by this UN Committee comprises:

— Al Qaida, the Taliban and Mr Usama bin Laden,

— natural or legal persons, entities, bodies and groups associated with Al Qaida, the Taliban and Mr Usama

bin Laden, and

— legal persons, entities and bodies owned or controlled by, or otherwise supporting, any of these asso-

ciated persons, entities, bodies and groups.

Acts or activities indicating that an individual, group, undertaking, or entity is ‘associated with’ Al-Qaida,
Usama bin Laden or the Taliban include:

(a) participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in
conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of, Al Qaida, the Taliban or Mr Usama
bin Laden, or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof;

(b) supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to any of them;

(c) recruiting for any of them; or

(d) otherwise supporting acts or activities of any of them.

2.
The UN Committee decided on 10 December 2008 to add several natural persons to the relevant list.
The natural persons concerned may submit at any time a request to the UN Committee, together with any
supporting documentation, for the decision to include them in the UN list referred to above, to be reconsid-
ered. Such request should be sent to the following address:

United Nations — Focal point for delisting
Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch
Room S-3055 E
New York, NY 10017
United States of America

See for more information at:

http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/delisting.shtml

(1) OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 4. Common Position as last amended by Common Position 2003/140/CFSP (OJ L 53, 28.2.2003,

p. 62).

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3.
Further to the UN decision referred to at point 2, the Commission has adopted Regulation (EC)
No 184/2009 (1), which amends Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific
restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the
Al-Qaida network and the Taliban (2), pursuant to Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 881/2002.

Therefore, the following measures of Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 apply to the natural and legal persons,
groups and entities concerned:

1. the freezing of all funds, other financial assets and economic resources belonging to them, or owned or
held by them, and the prohibition to make funds, other financial assets and economic resources available
to them or for their benefit, whether directly or indirectly (Articles 2 and 2a (3)); and

2. the prohibition to grant, sell, supply or transfer technical advice, assistance or training related to military

activities to them, whether directly or indirectly (Article 3).

The natural persons concerned by the listings of Regulation (EC) No 184/2009 may make a request

4.
for the grounds for their listing to the Commission. This request should be sent to:

European Commission
DG External Relations
Directorate A Crisis Platform — Policy Coordination in Common Foreign and Security Policy
Unit A2 Crisis Response and Peace Building
CHAR 12/45
1049 Bruxelles
BELGIQUE

5.
The attention of the natural persons concerned is also drawn to the possibility of challenging Regu-
lation (EC) No 184/2009 before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, in accordance
with the conditions laid down in Article 230(4) and (5) of the Treaty establishing the European Community.

Personal data of the natural persons concerned by the listings of Regulation (EC) No 184/2009 will be
6.
handled in accordance with the rules of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with
regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free move-
ment of such data (4). Any request, e.g. for further information or in order to exercise the rights under Regu-
lation (EC) No 45/2001 (e.g. access or rectification of personal data), should be sent to the Commission,
under the same address mentioned under point 4 above.

7.
For good order, the attention of the natural persons listed in Annex I is drawn to the possibility of
making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s), as listed in Annex II to
Regulation (EC) No 881/2002, in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds, other financial assets
and economic resources for essential needs or specific payments in accordance with Article 2a of that
Regulation.

(1) OJ L 63, 7.3.2009, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9.
(3) Article 2a was inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 561/2003 (OJ L 82, 29.3.2003, p. 1).
(4) OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1.