CELEX: 32008R0974
Language: en
Date: 2008-10-02
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 974/2008 of 2 October 2008 amending for the 99th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban

4.10.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 265/10
            
         
      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 974/2008
   of 2 October 2008
   amending for the 99th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 467/2001 prohibiting the export of certain goods and services to Afghanistan, strengthening the flight ban and extending the freeze of funds and other financial resources in respect of the Taliban of Afghanistan (1), and in particular Article 7(1), first indent, thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               On 12 August 2008, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to amend the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply. Annex I should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 2 October 2008.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Eneko LANDÁBURU
         
         
            Director-General for External Relations
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9.
   
      ANNEX
      Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended as follows:
      The following entry under the heading ‘Natural persons’ entry shall be deleted:
      
         ‘Armand Albert Friedrich Huber (alias
            Huber, Ahmed). Address: Rossimattstrasse 33, 3074 Muri b. Bern, Switzerland. Date of birth: 1927. Nationality: Swiss. Other information: (a) No Swiss passport has been issued under this name; (b) Deceased in May 2008.’