Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/218 of 17 February 2020 amending for the 309th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations
Date: 2020-02-17
Institutions: Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person, terrorism








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18.2.2020   


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Official Journal of the European Union


L 44/15








            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/218
of 17 February 2020
         
amending for the 309th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations (1), and in particular Article 7(1)(a) and Article 7a(5) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation.












(2)


On 20 June 2017, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to amend two entries in the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.












(3)


Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.





This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 17 February 2020.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9.




ANNEX
The identifying data for the following entries under the heading ‘Natural persons’ in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 are amended as follows:






(1)


‘Abdul Haq (alias (a) Maimaitiming Maimaiti, (b) Abdul Heq, (c) Abuduhake, (d) Abdulheq Jundullah, (e) 'Abd Al- Haq, (f) Memetiming Memeti, (g) Memetiming Aximu, (h) Memetiming Qekeman, (i) Maiumaitimin Maimaiti, (j) Abdul Saimaiti, (k) Muhammad Ahmed Khaliq, (l) Maimaiti Iman, (m) Muhelisi, (n) Qerman, (o) Saifuding). Date of birth: 10.10.1971. Place of birth: Chele County, Khuttan Area, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. Nationality: Chinese. National identification No: 653225197110100533 (Chinese identity card). Other information: (a) Located in Pakistan as at April 2009; (b) Reportedly deceased in Pakistan in February 2010. Date of designation referred to in Article 2a (4) (b): 15.4.2009.’
is replaced by the following:

                        ‘Abdul Haq (alias (a) Maimaitiming Maimaiti, (b) Abdul Heq, (c) Abudu Hake, (d) Abdul Heq Jundullah, (e) 'Abd Al-Haq, (f) Memetiming Memeti, (g) Memetiming Aximu, (h) Memetiming Qekeman, (i) Maiumaitimin Maimaiti, (j) Abdul Saimaiti, (k) Muhammad Ahmed Khaliq, (l) Maimaiti Iman, (m) Muhelisi, (n) Qerman, (o) Saifuding). Date of birth: 10.10.1971. Place of birth: Hetian Area, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. Nationality: Chinese. National identification No: 653225197110100533 (Chinese national identity card number). Other information: (a) Overall leader and commander of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement. Involved in fundraising and recruitment for this organisation, (b) Located in Afghanistan as at July 2016, (c) Previously located in Pakistan as at April 2009. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2)(i): 15.4.2009.’
                     










(2)


‘Abu Bakr Al-Jaziri (alias Yasir Al-Jazari). Nationality: (a) Algerian, (b) Palestinian. Other information: (a) Finance chief of the Afghan Support Committee (ASC), (b) Al-Qaida facilitator and communication expert, (c) Believed to be in Algeria as at April 2010. Date of designation referred to in Article 2a (4)(b): 11.1.2002.’
is replaced by the following:

                        ‘Boubekeur Boulghiti (alias (a) Boubakeur Boulghit, (b) Abu Bakr al-Jaziri, (c) Abou Bakr Al Djazairi, (d) Abou Yasser El Djazairi, (e) Yasir Al-Jazari, (f) Abou Yasser Al-Jaziri). Date of birth: 13.02.1970. Place of birth: Rouiba, Algiers, Algeria. Nationality: (a) Algerian, (b) Palestinian. Other information: (a) Finance chief of the Afghan Support Committee (ASC), (b) Al-Qaida facilitator and communication expert, (c) Believed to be in Algeria as at April 2010, (d) Son of Mohamed and Fatma Aribi. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2)(i): 11.1.2002.’