The following information is brought to the attention of - BOUYERI Mohammed, EL HAJJ Hassan Hassan, MELIAD Farah, Communist Party of the Philippines’, including ‘New People’s Army’ – ‘NPA’ persons and groups included on the list of persons, groups and entities subject to Articles 2, 3 and 4 of Council Common Position 2001/931/CFSP of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism and to Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism (see Annexes to Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/422 and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/420 of 24 February 2023) 2023/C 172/03
Date: 2023-05-15
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, international sanctions, legal person, natural person, terrorism








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15.5.2023   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 172/18






The following information is brought to the attention of - BOUYERI Mohammed, EL HAJJ Hassan Hassan, MELIAD Farah, Communist Party of the Philippines’, including ‘New People’s Army’ – ‘NPA’ persons and groups included on the list of persons, groups and entities subject to Articles 2, 3 and 4 of Council Common Position 2001/931/CFSP of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism and to Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism
(see Annexes to Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/422 and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/420 of 24 February 2023)
(2023/C 172/03)
The following information is brought to the attention of the above-mentioned persons and groups listed in Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/422 (1) and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/420 (2).
Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 (3) provides for a freezing of all funds, other financial assets and economic resources belonging to the persons and groups concerned and that no funds, 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 persons and groups. Having considered this new information, the Council intends to amend the statements of reasons accordingly.
The persons and groups concerned may submit a request to obtain the intended statements of reasons for maintaining them on the above-mentioned list to the following address:





Council of the European Union (Attn: COMET designations)




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




Email: sanctions@consilium.europa.eu
Such a request should be submitted by 22 May 2023.
The persons and groups 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 persons and groups concerned is drawn to the regular review by the Council of the list according to Article 1(6) of Common Position 2001/931/CFSP (4).
The attention of the persons and groups 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.


(1)  OJ L 61, 27.2.2023, p.58


(2)  OJ L 61, 27.2.2023, p.58 and 37.

(3)  OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p.70


(4)  OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p.93