engaging in, directly or indirectly, or supporting criminal activities and violence involving armed groups and criminal networks that promote violence, including forcible recruitment of children by such groups and networks, kidnappings, trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants, and homicides and sexual and gender-based violence;

supporting illicit trafficking and diversion of arms and related materiel, or illicit financial flows related thereto;

acting for or on behalf of or at the direction of or otherwise supporting or financing a person or entity designated in connection with the activity described in points (a) and (b), including through the direct or indirect use of the proceeds from organised crime, including proceeds from illicit production and trafficking in drugs and their precursors originating in or transiting through Haiti, the trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants from Haiti or the smuggling and trafficking of arms to or from Haiti;

acting in violation of the arms embargo established in paragraph 11 of UNSCR 2653 (2022), or as having directly or indirectly supplied, sold, or transferred to armed groups or criminal networks in Haiti, or as having been the recipient of, arms or any related materiel, or any technical advice, training or assistance, including financing and financial assistance, related to violent activities of armed groups or criminal networks in Haiti;

planning, directing, or committing acts that violate international human rights law or acts that constitute human rights abuses, including those involving extrajudicial killing, including of women and children, and the commission of acts of violence, abduction, enforced disappearances or kidnappings for ransom in Haiti;

planning, directing or committing acts involving sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and sexual slavery, in Haiti;

obstructing delivery of humanitarian assistance to Haiti or access to, or distribution of, humanitarian assistance in Haiti;

attacking personnel or premises of United Nations missions and operations in Haiti, or providing support for such attacks.

necessary to satisfy the basic needs of natural or legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex I, and dependent family members of such natural persons, including payments for food, rent or mortgage, medicines and medical treatment, taxes, insurance premiums and public utility charges;

intended exclusively for the payment of reasonable professional fees or the reimbursement of incurred expenses associated with the provision of legal services;

intended exclusively for the payment of fees or service charges for the routine holding or maintenance of frozen funds or economic resources;

provided that the competent authority of the Member State concerned has notified the Sanctions Committee of that determination and of its intention to grant an authorisation and in the absence of a negative decision by the Sanctions Committee within 5 working days of such notification.

the funds or economic resources are the subject of a judicial, administrative or arbitral lien established prior to the date on which the natural or legal person, entity or body referred to in Article 4 was included in Annex I, or of a judicial, administrative or arbitral judgement rendered prior to that date;

the funds or economic resources will be used exclusively to satisfy claims secured by, or recognised as valid in, such a lien or judgment, within the limits set by applicable laws and regulations governing the rights of persons having such claims;

the decision is not for the benefit of a natural or legal person, entity or body listed in Annex I;

recognition of the decision is not contrary to public policy in the Member State concerned; and

the Sanctions Committee has been notified by the Member State of the lien or judgment.

the funds or economic resources will be used for the payment by a natural or legal person, entity or body listed in Annex I;

the payment is not in breach of Article 3(2); and

the Sanctions Committee has been notified by the relevant Member State of the intention to grant an authorisation 10 working days in advance.

interest or other earnings on those accounts;

payments due under contracts, agreements or obligations that were concluded or arose before the date on which the natural or legal person, entity or body referred to in Article 4 was included in Annex I; or

payments due under judicial, administrative or arbitral decisions rendered in a Member State or enforceable in the Member State concerned,

provided that any such interest, other earnings and payments remain subject to the measures provided for in Article 3(1).

supply immediately any information which would facilitate compliance with this Regulation, such as information on accounts and amounts frozen in accordance with Article 3(1), to the competent authority of the Member State where they are resident or located, and transmit such information, directly or through the Member State, to the Commission; and

cooperate with the competent authority in any verification of the information referred to in point (a).

report before 9 January 2023 or within 6 weeks from the date of listing in Annex I, whichever is latest, funds or economic resources within the jurisdiction of a Member State belonging to, owned, held or controlled by them, to the competent authority of the Member State where those funds or economic resources are located; and

cooperate with the competent authority in any verification of such information.

natural or legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex I;

any natural or legal person, entity or body acting through or on behalf of one of the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies referred to in point (a).

funds frozen under Article 3(1) and authorisations granted under Articles 6, 7 and 8;

violation and enforcement problems and judgments handed down by national courts.

as regards the Council, preparing and making amendments to Annex I;

as regards the High Representative, preparing amendments to Annex I;

as regards the Commission: