CELEX: 32021R2203
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2203 of 10 December 2021 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq

14.12.2021   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 446/32
               
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/2203
         of 10 December 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 IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 lists natural and legal persons, bodies or entities associated with the regime of former President Saddam Hussein covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources and by a prohibition to make funds or economic resources available.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     On 8 December 2021, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to remove two persons from the list of persons and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
         
            Article 1
            Annex IV 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, 10 December 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 IV to Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003, the following entries are deleted:
            
                        ‘29.
                     
                     
                        NAME: Mahmud Dhiyab Al-Ahmed. DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1953, Baghdad or Mosul. NATIONALITY: Iraq. UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS: Minister of Interior.’
                     
                  
                        ‘34.
                     
                     
                        NAME: Husam Muhammad Amin Al-Yassin. DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1953 or 1958, Tikrit. NATIONALITY: Iraq. UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS: Head, National Monitoring Directorate.’