CELEX: 32014R0577
Language: en
Date: 2014-05-28 00:00:00
Title: Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2014 of 28 May 2014 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

29.5.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 160/7
            
         COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 577/2014
   of 28 May 2014
   implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 of 17 March 2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (1), and in particular Article 14(1) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               On 17 March 2014, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The information for seventeen persons and two entities included in the list of persons, entities and bodies subject to restrictive measures in Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 should be amended.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 should be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 is hereby 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 Brussels, 28 May 2014.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         E. VENIZELOS
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 6.
   
      ANNEX
      The entries for the following persons and entities set out in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 are replaced by the entries below.
      Persons:
      
                   
               
               
                  Name
               
               
                  Identifying information
               
               
                  Statement of reasons
               
               
                  Date of listing
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Vladimir Andreevich Konstantinov 
                  (Владимир Андреевич Константинов)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 19.11.1956
                  Vladimirovca, Slobozia District, Republic of Moldova 
               
               
                  As speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, Konstantinov played a relevant role in the decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea concerning the ‘referendum’ against the territorial integrity of Ukraine and called on voters to cast votes in favour of Crimean Independence.
               
               
                  17.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Pyotr Anatolyevich Zima 
                  (Пётр Анатольевич Зима)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 29.3.1965
               
               
                  Zima was appointed as the new head of the Crimean Security Service (SBU) on 3 March 2014 by ‘Prime Minister’ Aksyonov and accepted this appointment. He has given relevant information including a database to the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR). This included information on Euro-Maidan activists and human rights defenders of Crimea. He played a relevant role in preventing Ukraine's authorities from controlling the territory of Crimea. 
                  On 11 March 2014 the formation of an independent Security Service of Crimea was proclaimed by former SBU officers of Crimea. 
               
               
                  17.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Yuriy Gennadyevich Zherebtsov 
                  (Юрий Геннадьевич Жеребцов)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 19.11.1965
               
               
                  Counsellor of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, one of the leading organizers of the 16 March 2014‘referendum’ against Ukraine's territorial integrity.
               
               
                  17.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Anatoliy Alekseevich Sidorov 
                  (Анатолий Алексеевич Сидоров)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 2.7.1958
               
               
                  Commander of Russia's Western Military District, units of which are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia.
               
               
                  17.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Aleksandr Viktorovich Galkin 
                  (Александр Викторович Галкин)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 22.3.1958
               
               
                  Commander of Russia's Southern Military District (‘SMD’). SMD forces are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia. 
                  The Black Sea Fleet comes under Galkin's command; much of the force movement into Crimea has come through the Southern Military District 
               
               
                  17.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Mikhail Grigoryevich Malyshev 
                  (Михаил Григорьевич Малышев)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 10.10.1955
               
               
                  Chair of the Crimean Electoral Commission. 
                  Responsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results. 
               
               
                  21.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Valery Kirillovich Medvedev 
                  (Валерий Кириллович Медведев)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 21.8.1946
                  Russia 
               
               
                  Responsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results.
               
               
                  21.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  LTL. Gen. Igor Nikolaevich Turchenyuk 
                  (Игорь Николаевич Турченюк)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 5.12.1959
                  Kirghizia/Osh 
               
               
                  The de-facto Commander of Russian troops deployed on the ground in Crimea (whom Russia continues to refer to officially as ‘local self-defence militias’).
               
               
                  21.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Elena Borisovna Mizulina 
                  (Елена Борисовна Мизулина)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 9.12.1954
                  Buly, Kostroma Oblast 
               
               
                  Originator and co-sponsor of recent legislative proposals in Russia that would have allowed regions of other countries to join Russia without their central authorities' prior agreement.
               
               
                  21.3.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Valeriy Dmitrievich Bolotov 
                  (Валерий Дмитриевич Болотов)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 13.2.1970
                  Stachanov, Lugansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR 
               
               
                  One of the leaders of the separatist group ‘Army of the South-East’ which occupied the building of the Security Service in the Lugansk region. Before seizing the building he and other accomplices possessed arms apparently supplied illegally from Russia and from local criminal groups.
               
               
                  29.4.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Andriy Yevgenevich Purgin 
                  (Андрей Евгеньевич Пургин)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 26.1.1972
               
               
                  Head of the ‘Donetsk Republic’, active participant and organiser of separatist actions, coordinator of actions of the ‘Russian tourists’ in Donetsk. Co-founder of a ‘Civic initiative of Donbasfor the Eurasian Union.’
               
               
                  29.4.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Sergey Gennadevich Tsyplakov 
                  (Сергей Геннадьевич Цыплаков)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 1.5.1983
                  Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR 
               
               
                  One of the leaders of the ideologically radical organization People's Militia of Donbas. He took active part in the seizure of a number of state buildings in the Donetsk region.
               
               
                  29.4.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin a.k.a. Igor Strelkov 
                  (Игорь Всеволодович Гиркин)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 17.12.1970
                  passport no. 4506460961 
               
               
                  Identified as staff of main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). He was involved in incidents in Sloviansk. He is the assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, self-proclaimed prime-minister of Crimea.
               
               
                  29.4.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Viacheslav Ponomariov 
                  Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Ponomariov 
                  (Вячеслав Владимирович Пономарёв)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 2.5.1965
                  Slovinsk 
               
               
                  Self-declared mayor of Sloviansk. Ponomarev called on Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops to protect the city and later asked him to supply weapons. Ponomarev's men are involved in kidnappings (they captured Ukrainian reporters Irma Krat and Simon Ostrovsky, a reporter for Vice News. Both were later released. They detained military observers deployed under OSCE Vienna Document).
               
               
                  12.5.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Igor Mykolaiovych Bezler 
                  Igor Nikolaevich Bezler, 
                  (Игорь Николаевич Безлер)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 30.12.1965
                  Simferopol 
               
               
                  One of the leaders of the self-proclaimed militia of Horlivka. He took control of the Security Service of Ukraine's office in the Donetsk region building and afterwards seized the Ministry of Internal Affairs' district station in the town of Horlivka. He has links to Igor Girkin under whose command he was involved in the murder of People's Deputy of the Horlivka's Municipal Council Volodymyr Rybak according to the SBU.
               
               
                  12.5.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Oleg Tsariov 
                  Oleg Anatolevich Tsariov 
                  (Олег Анатолійович Царьов)
                  (Олег Анатольевич Царёв)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 2.6.1970
                  Dnipropetrovsk 
               
               
                  Member of the Rada. Publicly called for the creation of the Federal Republic of Novorossia, composed of South Eastern Ukrainian regions.
               
               
                  12.5.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Roman Lyagin 
                  (Роман Лягин)
               
               
                  d.o.b. 30.5.1980
                  Donetsk 
               
               
                  Head of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May on the self-determination of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.
               
               
                  12.5.2014
               
            Entities:
      
                   
               
               
                  Name
               
               
                  Identifying information
               
               
                  Statement of reasons
               
               
                  Date of listing
               
            
                   
               
               
                  PJSC Chernomorneftegaz
                  a.k.a Chornomornaftogaz
               
               
                  Prospekt Kirova/per. Sovarkomovskji 52/1 Simferopol, Crimea
               
               
                  On 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Chernomorneftegaz enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’.
               
               
                  12.5.2014
               
            
                   
               
               
                  Feodosia
                  a.k.a Feodossyskoje Predprijatije po obespetscheniju nefteproduktami
               
               
                  98107, Crimea, Feodosiya, Geologicheskaya str.2
                  Company providing transhipment services for crude oil and oil products.
               
               
                  On 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Feodosia enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’.
               
               
                  12.5.2014