CELEX: 32021D0751
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-06 00:00:00
Title: Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2021/751 of 6 May 2021 implementing Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria

7.5.2021   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 160/115
               
            
         COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (CFSP) 2021/751
         of 6 May 2021
         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)
                  
                  
                     The information relating to one person in the list of natural and legal persons, entities or bodies subject to restrictive measures in Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP should be updated.
                  
               
                     (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 following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 6 May 2021.
            
               
                  For the Council
               
               
                  The President
               
               J. BORRELL FONTELLES
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 147, 1.6.2013, p. 14.
      
      
         
            ANNEX
            In Section A (‘Persons’) of Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP, entry 36 is replaced by the following:
            
               
                            
                        
                        
                           Name
                        
                        
                           Identifying information
                        
                        
                           Reasons
                        
                        
                           Date of listing
                        
                     
                           ‘36.
                        
                        
                           Nizar AL-ASSAD (a.k.a. al-Asad, Assad, Asad, Assaad, Asaad, Al-Assaad)
                           ( اسعد, الاسعد,الاسد;نزار)
                        
                        
                           Date of birth: 2.3.1948 or 23.3.1948 or March 1948;
                           Nationalities: Syrian, Lebanese and Canadian;
                           Syrian passport No 011090258;
                           Lebanese passport No RL0003434;
                           Canadian passport No AG629220;
                           Gender: male
                        
                        
                           Leading Syrian businessperson with close ties to the regime. Associated with the Assad and Makhlouf families.
                           As such, he has been participating in, benefiting from or otherwise supporting the Syrian regime.
                           Leading oil investor, founder and head of the Lead Contracting & Trading Ltd company.
                        
                        
                           23.8.2011’