CELEX: 32016D1985
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2016/1985 of 14 November 2016 implementing Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria

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               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               LI 305/4
            
         COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (CFSP) 2016/1985
   of 14 November 2016
   implementing Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 31(2) thereof,
   Having regard to Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP of 31 May 2013 concerning restrictive measures against Syria (1) and in particular Article 30(1) thereof,
   Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               On 31 May 2013, the Council adopted Decision 2013/255/CFSP.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               In view of the deteriorating situation in Syria, eighteen persons should be added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities or bodies subject to restrictive measures in Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Decision 2013/255/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP is amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision.
   Article 2
   This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
   
      Done at Brussels, 14 November 2016.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         F. MOGHERINI
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 147, 1.6.2013, p. 14.
   
      ANNEX
      The following persons are added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities or bodies set out in Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP:
      
         List of natural and legal persons, entities or bodies referred to in Articles 27 and 28
      
      A.   Persons
      
      
         
                      
                  
                  
                     Name
                  
                  
                     Identifying information
                  
                  
                     Reasons
                  
                  
                     Date of listing
                  
               
                     ‘217.
                  
                  
                     Atef Naddaf
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1956
                     Place of birth: Damascus Countryside
                  
                  
                     Higher Education Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     218.
                  
                  
                     Hussein Makhlouf (a.k.a. Makhluf)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1964
                     Place of birth: Lattakia
                     Former Governor of Damascus Governorate
                  
                  
                     Local Administration Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                     Cousin of Rami Makhlouf.
                  
                  
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                     219.
                  
                  
                     Ali Al-Zafir (a.k.a. al-Dafeer)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1962
                     Place of birth: Tartous
                  
                  
                     Communications and Technology Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     220.
                  
                  
                     Ali Ghanem
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1963
                     Place of birth: Damascus
                  
                  
                     Minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     221.
                  
                  
                     Mohammed (a.k.a. Mohamed, Muhammad, Mohammad) Ramez Tourjman (a.k.a Tourjuman)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1966
                     Place of birth: Damascus
                  
                  
                     Information Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     222.
                  
                  
                     Mohammed (a.k.a. Mohamed, Muhammad, Mohammad) al-Ahmed (a.k.a. al-Ahmad)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1961
                     Place of birth: Lattakia
                  
                  
                     Culture Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     223.
                  
                  
                     Ali Hamoud (a.k.a. Hammoud)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1964
                     Place of birth: Tartous
                  
                  
                     Transport Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     224.
                  
                  
                     Mohammed Zuhair (a.k.a. Zahir) Kharboutli
                  
                  
                     Place of birth: Damascus
                  
                  
                     Electricity Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     225.
                  
                  
                     Maamoun Hamdan
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1958
                     Place of birth: Damascus
                  
                  
                     Finance Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     226.
                  
                  
                     Nabil al-Hasan (a.k.a. al-Hassan)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1963
                     Place of birth: Aleppo
                  
                  
                     Minister of Water Resources.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     227.
                  
                  
                     Ahmad al-Hamu (a.k.a. al-Hamo)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1947
                  
                  
                     Minister for Industry.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     228.
                  
                  
                     Abdullah al-Gharbi (a.k.a. al-Qirbi)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1962
                     Place of birth: Damascus
                  
                  
                     Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     229.
                  
                  
                     Abdullah Abdullah
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1956
                  
                  
                     State Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     230.
                  
                  
                     Salwa Abdullah
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1953
                     Place of birth: Quneitra
                  
                  
                     State Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     231.
                  
                  
                     Rafe'a Abu Sa'ad (a.k.a. Saad)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1954
                     Place of birth: Habran village (Sweida province)
                  
                  
                     State Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     232.
                  
                  
                     Wafiqa Hosni
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1952
                     Place of birth: Damascus
                  
                  
                     State Minister.
                     Appointed in July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     233.
                  
                  
                     Rima Al-Qadiri (a.k.a. Al-Kadiri)
                  
                  
                     Date of birth: 1963
                     Place of birth: Damascus
                  
                  
                     Minister for Social Affairs (since August 2015).
                  
                  
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                     234.
                  
                  
                     Duraid Durgham
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                     Governor of the Central Bank of Syria.
                     Responsible for providing economic and financial support to the Syrian regime through his functions as the Governor of the Central Bank of Syria, which is also listed.
                  
                  
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