CELEX: 32021R1111
Language: en
Date: 2021-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1111 of 6 July 2021 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq

7.7.2021   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 239/22
               
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/1111
         of 6 July 2021
         amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq
         THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
         Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
         Having regard to 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 (1), and in particular Article 11(b) thereof,
         Whereas:
         
                     (1)
                  
                  
                     Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 lists public bodies, corporations and agencies and natural and legal persons, bodies and entities of the previous government of Iraq covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources that were located outside Iraq on 22 May 2003 under that Regulation.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     On 30 June 2021, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to remove one entity from the list of persons and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
         
            Article 1
            Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 is amended as 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, 6 July 2021.
            
               
                  For the Commission,
               
               
                  On behalf of the President,
               
               
                  Director-General
               
               
                  Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
               
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 169, 8.7.2003, p. 6.
      
      
         
            ANNEX
            In Annex III to Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003, the following entry is deleted:
            
               
                           ‘124.
                        
                        
                           STATE CONTRACTING WATER AND SEWAGE PROJECTS COMPANY (alias (a) STATE ORGANISATION FOR WATER AND SEWAGE, (b) GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR WATER AND SEWAGE PROJECTS, (c) GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR IMPLEMENTING WATER AND SEWERAGE PROJECTS, (d) GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR OPERATION WATER AND SEWERAGE PROJECTS). Addresses: (a) Street No 52, Alwiya, P.O. Box 5738, Baghdad, Iraq; (b) P.O. Box 1011, Basil Square, Baghdad, Iraq; (c) P.O. Box 1011, Al Wathba Square, Baghdad, Iraq.’