Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/401 of 8 March 2022 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq
Date: 2022-03-08
Institutions: Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Iraq, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person








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10.3.2022   


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Official Journal of the European Union


L 83/4








            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/401
of 8 March 2022
         
amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2465/96 (1), and in particular Article 11(b) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 lists natural and legal persons, bodies or entities associated with the regime of former President Saddam Hussein covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources and by a prohibition to make funds or economic resources available.












(2)


On 3 March 2022, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to remove seven persons from the list of persons and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.












(3)


Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 is amended as set out in 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, 8 March 2022.


For the Commission,


On behalf of the President,


Director-General


Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union






(1)  
            OJ L 169, 8.7.2003, p. 6.




ANNEX
In Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003, the following entries are deleted:

‘8.   NAME: Aziz Salih al-Numan

DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1941 or 1945, An Nasiriyah
NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Ba'th Party Regional Command Chairman;
Former Governor of Karbala and An Najaf;
Former Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (1986-1987)’
            


‘10.   NAME: Kamal Mustafa Abdallah

ALIAS: Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti
DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1952 or 4 May 1955, Tikrit
NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Republican Guard Secretary;
Led Special Republican Guards and commanded both Republican Guard Corps’
            


‘18.   NAME: Latif Nusayyif Jasim Al-Dulaymi

DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: Circa 1941, ar-Rashidiyah, suburb of Baghdad
NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Ba'th Party Military Bureau Deputy Chairman;
Labour and Social Affairs Minister (1993 to 1996)’
            


‘40.   NAME: Abd-al-Baqi Abd-al-Karim Abdallah Al-Sa'dun

DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1947
NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Ba'th Party Regional Command Chairman, Diyala
Deputy Commander, Southern Region, 1998 to 2000;
Former National Assembly Speaker’
            


‘41.   NAME: Muhammad Zimam Abd-al-Razzaq Al-Sa'dun

DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1942, Suq Ash-Shuyukh District, Dhi-Qar
NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Ba'th Party Regional Command Chairman, At-Tamin;
Minister of Interior, 1995 to 2001’
            


‘42.   NAME: Samir Abd al-Aziz Al-Najim

DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1937 or 1938, Baghdad
NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Ba'th Party Regional Command Chairman, East Baghdad’
            


‘53.   NAME: Qaid Hussein Al-Awadi

NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Ba'th Party Regional Command Chairman, Ninawa;
Former Governor of An-Najaf, circa 1998 to 2002’