Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/954 of 25 March 2024 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: 2024-03-25
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, international sanctions, legal person, natural person, terrorism








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2024/954


25.3.2024







            COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/954
of 25 March 2024
         
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 persons, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them, one person 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 in accordance with 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 Brussels, 25 March 2024.


For the Council


The President

A. MARON
            





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




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






(1)


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






‘18.


Mohamed Ibrahim al-Shafi’i AL-SALEM (a.k.a. also known as Aba Al-Sahraoui, Aba al-Sahrawi, Abba al-Saharawi); gender: male.’;














(2)


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






‘6.


Katiba Macina (a.k.a. Macina Liberation Front, Katiba Macina of Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin, FLM, MLF, MLM, Massina Liberation Front, Katiba Massina, Massina Brigade, Macina Brigade, Ansar Dine Macina, Harakat Ansar al-Din Macina Brigade, Ansar al-Din South, Macina Battalion, Macina Liberation Movement, La Force de Libération du Macina, ML Movement, Massina Liberation Movement, Ansar al-Din Macina Brigade, Katiba Macina – Ansar Dine, Ansar al-Din Macina).’.











ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/954/oj
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