CELEX: 32016R1955
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-08 00:00:00
Title: Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1955 of 8 November 2016 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 301/1
            
         COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/1955
   of 8 November 2016
   implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 of 17 March 2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (1), and in particular Article 14(1) thereof,
   Having regard to the proposal of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               On 17 March 2014, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Following the organisation by the Russian Federation of State Duma elections in the illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol, the Council considers that six persons should be added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to restrictive measures as set out in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   The persons listed in the Annex to this Regulation shall be added to the list set out in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 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, 8 November 2016.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         P. KAŽIMÍR
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 6.
   
      ANNEX
      
         List of persons referred to in Article 1
      
      
         
                      
                  
                  
                     Name
                  
                  
                     Identifying information
                  
                  
                     Reasons
                  
                  
                     Date of listing
                  
               
                     ‘152.
                  
                  
                     Ruslan Ismailovich BALBEK
                     Руслан Исмаилович
                     Бальбек
                  
                  
                     DOB: 28.8.1977
                     POB: Bekabad, Uzbekistan SSR
                  
                  
                     Member of the State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
                     Deputy Chairperson of the Duma Committee on ethnic affairs.
                     In 2014 Balbek was appointed as a Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the so-called “Republic of Crimea” and worked in this capacity for the integration of the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula into the Russian Federation, for which he has been awarded with a medal “For the Defence of Republic of Crimea”. He has supported the annexation of Crimea in public statements, including on his profile on the United Russia (Crimean branch) website and a press article published on NTV website on 3 July 2016.
                  
                  
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                     153.
                  
                  
                     Konstantin Mikhailovich BAKHAREV
                     Константин Михайлович
                     Бахарев
                  
                  
                     DOB: 20.10.1972
                     POB: Simferopol Ukrainian SSR
                  
                  
                     Member of the State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
                     Member of the Duma Committee on Financial Markets.
                     In March 2014 Bakharev was appointed as a Deputy Chairperson of the State Council of the so-called “Republic of Crimea”, and in August 2014 as First Deputy Chairperson of that body. He has admitted his personal involvement in the events of 2014 that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, which he has publicly supported, including in an interview published on gazetakrimea.ru website on 22 March 2016 and c-pravda.ru website on 23 August 2016. He has been awarded with the order “For loyalty to duty” by the “authorities” of “Republic of Crimea”.
                  
                  
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                     154.
                  
                  
                     Dmitry Anatolievich BELIK
                     Дмитрий Анатольевич
                     Белик
                  
                  
                     DOB: 17.10.1969
                     POB: Kular Ust-Yansky District, Yakut Autonomous SSR
                  
                  
                     Member of the State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed city of Sevastopol.
                     Member of the Duma Committee on Taxation.
                     As a member of the Sevastopol municipal administration in February-March 2014 he supported the activities of the so-called “People's Mayor” Alexei Chaliy. He has publicly admitted his involvement in the events of 2014 that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, which he has publicly defended, including on his personal website and in an interview published on 21 February 2016 on nation-news.ru website.
                     For his involvement in the annexation process he has been awarded with Russian state order “For duties to the motherland” — II degree.
                  
                  
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                     155.
                  
                  
                     Andrei Dmitrievich KOZENKO
                     Андрей Дмитриевич
                     Козенко
                  
                  
                     DOB: 3.8.1981
                     POB: Simferopol Ukrainian SSR
                  
                  
                     Member of the State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
                     Member of Duma Committee on Financial Markets.
                     In March 2014 Kozenko was appointed as a Deputy Chairperson of the State Council of the so-called “Republic of Crimea”. He has publicly admitted his involvement in the events of 2014 that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, which he has publicly defended, including in an interview published on gazetacrimea.ru website on 12 March 2016. For his involvement in the annexation process he has been awarded with a medal “For the defence of Republic of Crimea” by the local “authorities”.
                  
                  
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                     156.
                  
                  
                     Svetlana Borisovna SAVCHENKO
                     Светлана Борисовна
                     Савченко
                  
                  
                     DOB: 24.6.1965
                     POB: Belogorsk Ukrainian SSR
                  
                  
                     Member of the State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
                     Member of the Duma Committee on Culture.
                     She has been a member of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2012 and as of March 2014 supported the integration of the illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation. In September 2014 Savchenko was elected to the State Council of the so-called “Republic of Crimea”. She has defended the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol on numerous occasions in public statements, including interviews published on c-pravda.ru website on 2 April 2016 and 20 August 2016. She has been awarded with Russian state order “For duties to the motherland” — II degree in 2014 and with the order “For loyalty to duty” by the “authorities” of “Republic of Crimea” in 2015.
                  
                  
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                     157.
                  
                  
                     Pavel Valentinovich SHPEROV
                     Павел Валентинович
                     Шперов
                  
                  
                     DOB: 4.7.1971
                     POB: Simferopol (Ukrainian SSR)
                  
                  
                     Member of the State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
                     Member of the Duma Committee on Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Affairs, Eurasian Integration and links with compatriots.
                     In September 2014 Shperov was elected to the State Council of the so-called “Republic of Crimea”.
                     He has publicly admitted, including in an interview published on ldpr-rk.ru website on 3 September 2016, his role in the events of 2014 that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol and in particular his role in the organisation of the illegal referendum on the illegal annexation of the peninsula.
                  
                  
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