CELEX: 32020R0706
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/706 of 26 May 2020 amending for the 314th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations

27.5.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 164/49
               
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/706
         of 26 May 2020
         amending for the 314th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations
         THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
         Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
         Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations (1), and in particular Article 7(1)(a) and Article 7a(1) 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 21 May 2020, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to add an entry to the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly.
                  
               
                     (4)
                  
                  
                     In order to ensure that the measures provided for in this Regulation are effective it should enter into force immediately,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
         
            Article 1
            Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
         
         
            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, 26 May 2020.
            
               
                  For the Commission,
               
               
                  On behalf of the President,
               
               
                  Director-General
               
               
                  Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
               
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9.
      
      
         
            ANNEX
            In Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 the following entry is added under the heading ‘Natural persons’:
            
               ‘Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla (original script: أمیر محمد سعید عبد الرحمن المولى) (good quality alias (a) Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, (b) Hajji Abdallah, (c) Abu ‘Umar al-Turkmani, (d) Abdullah Qardash, (e) Abu ‘Abdullah Qardash, (f) al-Hajj Abdullah Qardash, (g) Hajji Abdullah Al-Afari, (h) `Abdul Amir Muhammad Sa'id Salbi, (i) Muhammad Sa'id `Abd-al-Rahman al-Mawla, (j) Amir Muhammad Sa’id ‘Abd-al-Rahman Muhammad al-Mula; low quality alias (a) Al-Ustadh, (b) Ustadh Ahmad). Date of birth: (a) 5.10.1976, (b) 1.10.1976. Place of birth: (a) Tall’Afar, Iraq, (b) Mosul, Iraq. Nationality: Iraqi. Other information: Leader of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2)(i): 21.5.2020.’