Notice for the attention of the persons subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2010/788/CFSP, as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/2181 and Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2177 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2021/C 497/04
Date: 2021-12-10
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Democratic Republic of the Congo, EU restrictive measure, arms trade, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person








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10.12.2021   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 497/15






Notice for the attention of the persons subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2010/788/CFSP, as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/2181 and Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2177 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(2021/C 497/04)
The following information is brought to the attention of the persons that appear in Annex II to Council Decision 2010/788/CFSP (1), as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/2181 (2), and in Annex Ia to Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 (3), as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2177 (4), concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Council of the European Union has decided that the persons that appear in the above-mentioned Annexes should continue to be included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures provided for in Decision 2010/788/CFSP and in Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The grounds for designations of those persons appear in the relevant entries in those Annexes.
The attention of the persons concerned is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s) as indicated in the web-sites in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005, in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds for basic needs or specific payments (cf. Article 3 of the Regulation).
The persons concerned may submit a request to the Council before 1 September 2022, together with supporting documentation that the decision to include them on the above-mentioned list should be reconsidered to the following address:





Council of the European Union




General Secretariat




RELEX.1.C




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




Email: sanctions@consilium.europa.eu
Any observations received will be taken into account for the purpose of the Council’s next review, pursuant to Article 9 of Decision 2010/788/CFSP.
The attention of the persons concerned is also drawn to the possibility of challenging the Council’s decision before the General Court of the European Union, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 275, second paragraph, and Article 263, fourth and sixth paragraphs, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.


(1)  OJ L 336, 21.12.2010, p. 30.

(2)  OJ L 443, 10.12.2021, p. 75.

(3)  OJ L 193, 23.7.2005, p. 1.

(4)  OJ L 443, 10.12.2021, p. 3.