Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/949 of 20 June 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 imposing additional restrictive measures directed against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda and natural and legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them
Date: 2022-06-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, international sanctions, legal person, natural person, terrorism








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20.6.2022   


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Official Journal of the European Union


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            COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/949
of 20 June 2022
         
implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 imposing additional restrictive measures directed against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda and natural and legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 of 20 September 2016 imposing additional restrictive measures directed against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda and natural and legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them (1), and in particular Article 4(1) thereof,


Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:







(1)


On 20 September 2016, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2016/1686.












(2)


In view of the continued threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda, and natural and legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them, three persons and one group should be added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2016/1686.












(3)


Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the date 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 Luxembourg, 20 June 2022.


For the Council


The President

J. BORRELL FONTELLES
            





(1)  
            OJ L 255, 21.9.2016, p. 1.




ANNEX
Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 is amended as follows:






(1)


the following entries are added under heading ‘A. Natural persons referred to in Article 3’:






‘12.


Sidan Ag HITTA (a.k.a. Asidan Ag Hitta, Abu ’Abd al-Hakim, Abu Abdelhakim al-Kidali, Abu Qarwani, Al Qaïrawani, Abou Abdel Hamid Al Kidali); date of birth: 1976; place of birth: Kidal, Mali; gender: male; nationality: Malian.










13.


Salem ould BREIHMATT (a.k.a. OULD ABED Cheikh ould Mohamed Salec, Abu Hamza al-Shanqiti, Abu Hamza al-Shinqiti, Hamza al-Mauritani, NITRIK Hamza, Abu Hamza al-Chinguetti); date of birth: 1978 or 1984; place of birth: Mauritania; gender: male; nationality: Mauritanian.










14.


Jafar DICKO (a.k.a. Jaffar Dicko, Abdoul Salam Dicko, Amadou Boucary, Amadou Boucary Dicko); date of birth: 1980 (presumed); gender: male; nationality: Burkinabe.’;














(2)


the following entry is added under heading ‘B. Legal persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 3’:






‘4.


Ansarul Islam (a.k.a. Ansar al-Islam, Ansarour Islam, Ansaroul Islam, Defenders of Islam, Ansar-ul-islam lil-ichad wal jihad, IRSAD, Ansar ul Islam of Malam Boureima Dicko).’.