CELEX: 52012JC0038
Language: en
Date: 2012-12-20
Title: Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq

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			Joint Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq /* JOIN/2012/038 final - 2012/0369 (NLE) */
			
				
		
		
			
			   	EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
(1)                   
Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 imposed
certain restrictive measures in respect of Iraq, in accordance with Common Position
2003/495/CFSP and UN Security Council Resolution 1483 (2003). Article 4 of the
Regulation freezes in particular the funds and economic resources of Saddam
Hussein and other senior officials of the former Iraqi regime. In line with
paragraph 23 of UNSC Resolution 1483 (2003) the Regulation allows the Member
States to unfreeze such funds and economic resources for the purpose of their
transfer to the Development Fund for Iraq.
(2)                   
On 15 December 2010, the UNSC adopted Resolution
1956 (2010) by which it decided at paragraph 5 that the full proceeds from the
Development Fund for Iraq should be transferred to the Government of Iraq’s
successor arrangements account or accounts and that the Development Fund for
Iraq should be terminated no later than 30 June 2011.
(3)                   
In accordance with Council Decision 2012/…/CFSP,
Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly, in order
to permit the transfer of frozen funds, other financial assets or economic
resources to the successor arrangements to the Development Fund for Iraq put in
place by the Government of Iraq under the conditions set out in UNSC Resolutions
1483 (2003) and 1956 (2010).
2012/0369 (NLE)
Joint Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION
amending Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003
concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations
with Iraq
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 Council Decision 2012/…/CFSP
amending Common Position 2003/495/CFSP on Iraq[1],
Having regard to the joint proposal from
the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
and the Commission,
Whereas:
(1)       In line with United
Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1483 (2003), Article 4 of Council Regulation
(EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 2003 concerning certain
specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq and
repealing Regulation (EC) No 2465/96[2]
freezes in particular the funds and economic resources
of Saddam Hussein and other senior officials of the former Iraqi regime. 
(2)       In accordance with
paragraph 23 of UNSC Resolution 1483 (2003), Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1210/2003 allows the Member States to unfreeze such funds and economic
resources for the purpose of their transfer to the Development Fund for Iraq.
(3)       On 15 December 2010, the
UNSC adopted Resolution 1956 (2010) by which it decided at paragraph 5 that the
full proceeds from the Development Fund for Iraq should be transferred to the
Government of Iraq’s successor arrangements account or accounts and that the
Development Fund for Iraq should be terminated no later than 30 June 2011.
(4)       Regulation (EC) No
1210/2003 should therefore be amended to permit the transfer of frozen funds,
other financial assets or economic resources to the successor arrangements to
the Development Fund for Iraq put in place by the Government of Iraq under the
conditions set out in UNSC Resolutions 1483 (2003) and 1956 (2010).
(5)       It
is also appropriate to update Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 with recent information
provided by the Member States regarding the identification of competent
authorities and the address of the European Commission.
(6)       Regulation (EC) No
1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 is
amended as follows:
(1) In Article 6, paragraph 2 is replaced
by the following:
2. In all other circumstances, funds,
economic resources and proceeds of economic resources frozen pursuant to
Article 4 shall only be unfrozen for the purpose of their transfer to the successor
arrangements to the Development Fund for Iraq put in place by the Government of
Iraq under the conditions set out in UNSC Resolutions 1483 (2003) and 1956
(2010).
(2) Annex V is replaced by the text set out
in 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
ANNEX
"ANNEX
V
Websites
for information on the competent authorities referred to in Articles 6, 7 and 8
and address for notifications to the European Commission
A. Competent authorities in each Member State:
BELGIUM
http://www.diplomatie.be/eusanctions
BULGARIA
http://www.mfa.bg/en/pages/135/index.html
CZECH REPUBLIC
http://www.mfcr.cz/mezinarodnisankce
DENMARK
http://um.dk/da/politik-og-diplomati/retsorden/sanktioner/
GERMANY
http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Navigation/Aussenwirtschaft/Aussenwirtschaftsrecht/embargos.html
ESTONIA
http://www.vm.ee/est/kat_622/
IRELAND
http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=28519
GREECE
http://www.mfa.gr/en/foreign-policy/global-issues/international-sanctions.html
SPAIN
http://www.maec.es/es/MenuPpal/Asuntos/Sanciones%20Internacionales/Paginas/Sanciones_%20Internacionales.aspx
FRANCE
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/autorites-sanctions/
ITALY
http://www.esteri.it/MAE/IT/Politica_Europea/Deroghe.htm
CYPRUS
http://www.mfa.gov.cy/sanctions
LATVIA
http://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/security/4539
LITHUANIA
http://www.urm.lt/sanctions
LUXEMBOURG
http://www.mae.lu/sanctions
HUNGARY
http://www.kulugyminiszterium.hu/kum/hu/bal/Kulpolitikank/nemzetkozi_szankciok/
MALTA
http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/bodies/boards/sanctions_monitoring.asp
NETHERLANDS
www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/internationale-vrede-en-veiligheid/sancties
AUSTRIA
http://www.bmeia.gv.at/view.php3?f_id=12750&LNG=en&version=
POLAND
http://www.msz.gov.pl
PORTUGAL
http://www.min-nestrangeiros.pt
ROMANIA
http://www.mae.ro/node/1548
SLOVENIA
http://www.mzz.gov.si/si/zunanja_politika_in_mednarodno_pravo/zunanja_politika/mednarodna_varnost/omejevalni_ukrepi/

SLOVAKIA
http://www.foreign.gov.sk
FINLAND
http://formin.finland.fi/kvyhteistyo/pakotteet
SWEDEN
http://www.ud.se/sanktioner
UNITED KINGDOM
www.fco.gov.uk/competentauthorities
B. Address for notifications to, or other
communication with, the European Commission:
European Commission 
Service for Foreign Policy Instruments
(FPI)
EEAS 02/309
B-1049 Brussels 
Belgium
E-mail: relex-sanctions@ec.europa.eu"
[1]               OJ L … , … 2010, p. ..
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[2]               OJ L 169, 8.7.2003, p. 6.