CELEX: 52015JC0008
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-12
Title: Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EC) No 314/2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Zimbabwe

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			Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EC) No 314/2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Zimbabwe /* JOIN/2015/0008 - NLE/2015/0067 */
			
				
		
		
			
			   	EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
(1)          Council Regulation (EC) No
314/2004 of 19 February 2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect
of Zimbabwe[1]
implements several restrictive measures provided for by Council Decision
2011/101/CFSP of 15 February 2011 concerning restrictive measures against
Zimbabwe[2],
including the freezing of funds and economic resources of certain natural or
legal persons, entities and bodies. 
(2)          On 19 February 2015 the Council
adopted a Council Decision amending Decision 2011/101/CFSP with the aim of
removing the names of five deceased persons from Annex I and II to that
Decision.
(3)          That measure
is implemented at the level of the Union and therefore
further action by the Union is needed in order to implement it.
(4)          On 19 February 2015 Commission
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/275 removed those five persons from Annex III
to Regulation (EC) No 314/2004.
(5)          It is necessary to update Annex
IV to Council Regulation (EU) No 314/2004 accordingly.
2015/0067 (NLE)
Joint Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION
amending Council Regulation (EC) No
314/2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Zimbabwe
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 215 thereof, 
Having regard to the joint proposal of the
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and of
the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1)       Council Regulation (EC) No
314/2004[3]
implements several measures provided for by Council Decision 2011/101/CFSP[4], including the freezing
of funds and economic resources of certain natural or legal persons, entities
and bodies. 
(2)       Annex IV to Regulation
(EC) No 314/2004 lists the persons and entities suspended from the freezing of
funds and economic resources under that Regulation. 
(3)       On 19 February 2015 the
Council adopted Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/277[5]
amending Decision 2011/101/CFSP removing the names of five deceased persons
from Annex I and II to that Decision.
(4)       That measure
falls within the scope of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
and regulatory action at the level of the Union is therefore necessary in order
to implement it, in particular with a view to ensuring its uniform application
by economic operators in all Member States.
(5)       On 19 February 2015
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/275[6]
removed those five deceased persons from Annex III to Regulation (EC) No
314/2004.
(6)       Annex IV to Council
Regulation (EU) No 314/2004 should be amended accordingly,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 314/2004 is
amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on
the day following that 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,
                                                                       For
the Council
                                                                       The
President 
[1]               OJ L 55, 24.2.2004, p.1.
[2]               OJ L 42, 16.2.2011, p. 6–23
[3]               Council Regulation (EC) No 314/2004 of 19 February
2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Zimbabwe (OJ L 55,
24.2.2004, p.1).
[4]               Council Decision 2011/101/CFSP of 15 February 2011
concerning restrictive measures against Zimbabwe (OJ L 42, 16.2.2011, p. 6).
[5]               Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/277 of 19 February 2015
amending Decision 2011/101/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against
Zimbabwe (OJ L 47, 20.2.2015, p. 20–21)
[6]               Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/275 of
19 February 2015 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 314/2004 concerning
certain restrictive measures in respect of Zimbabwe (OJ L 47, 20.2.2015, p.
15).
ANNEX
to the
Joint proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION
amending Regulation (EC) No
314/2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Zimbabwe 

ANNEX
In Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 314/2004
the following natural persons shall be deleted from the heading ‘I. Persons’:
I. Persons
   || Name (and any aliases) 
 (1)                   Chindori-Chininga, Edward Takaruza 
 (2)                   Karakadzai, Mike Tichafa 
 (3)                   Sakupwanya, Stanley Urayayi 
 (4)                   Sekeremayi, Lovemore 
 (5)                   Shamuyarira, Nathan Marwirakuwa