Notice for the attention of Hofstadgroep and Communist Party of the Philippines (including New People Army — NPA) included on the list provided for in Article 2(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism (see Annex to Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1285/2009 of 22 December 2009 )
Date: 2010-04-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Communist Party, Philippines, administrative sanction, economic sanctions, international sanctions








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28.4.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 108/8





Notice for the attention of Hofstadgroep and Communist Party of the Philippines (including New People Army — NPA) included on the list provided for in Article 2(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism (see Annex to Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1285/2009 of 22 December 2009)
2010/C 108/07
The following information is brought to the attention of Hofstadgroep and Communist Party of the Philippines (including New People Army — NPA) listed in Council Regulation (EU) No 1285/2009 (1).
Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 of 27 December 2001 provides for a freezing of all funds, other financial assets and economic resources belonging to the persons, groups and entities concerned and that no funds (2), other financial assets and economic resources may be made available to them, whether directly or indirectly.
The Council has been provided with new information relevant to the listing of the above mentioned groups and entities. Having considered this new information, the Council has amended the statements of reasons accordingly.
The groups and entities concerned may submit a request to obtain the updated Council's statement of reasons for maintaining them on the above mentioned list to the following address:





Council of the European Union




(Attn: CP 931 designations)




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




Such a request should be submitted within two weeks from the date of publication of this notice.
The groups and entities concerned may submit at any time a request to the Council, together with any supporting documentation, that the decision to include and maintain them on the list should be reconsidered, to the address provided above. Such requests will be considered when they are received.
In this respect, the attention of the groups and entities concerned is drawn to the regular review by the Council of the list according to Article 1(6) of Common Position 2001/931/CFSP (3). In order for requests to be considered at the next review, they should be submitted within two weeks from the date of notification of the statement.
The attention of the groups and entities concerned is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s) as listed in the Annex to the Regulation in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds for essential needs or specific payments in accordance with Article 5(2) of that Regulation. An updated list of competent authorities is available on the web at the following address: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/cfsp/sanctions/measures.htm


(1)  OJ L 346, 23.12.2009, p. 39.

(2)  OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p. 70.

(3)  OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p. 93.