25.1.2021   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 23/16

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/53

of 22 January 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 18 January 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, 22 January 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 Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003, the following entries are deleted:

‘31.

NAME: Zuhair Talib Abd-al-Sattar Al-Naqib. DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: Circa 1948. NATIONALITY: Iraq. UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS: Director, Military Intelligence.’

‘33.

NAME: Amir Rashid Muhammad Al-Ubaidi. DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 1939, Baghdad. NATIONALITY: Iraq. UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS: Minister of Oil, 1996 to 2003; Head, Organisation of Military Industrialisation, early 1990s.’