4.8.2023   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 275/21


Notice for the attention of the natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP, as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/1592, and Council Regulation (EU) No 765/2006, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1591 concerning restrictive measures in respect of Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine

(2023/C 275/09)

The following information is brought to the attention of the persons, entities and bodies that appear in the Annex to Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP (1), as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/1592 (2), and in Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) No 765/2006 (3), as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1591 (4) concerning restrictive measures in respect of Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

The Council of the European Union has decided that those persons, entities and bodies should be included on the list of persons, entities and bodies subject to restrictive measures provided for in Decision 2012/642/CFSP and in Regulation (EU) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures in respect of Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The grounds for the designation of those persons, entities and bodies appear in the relevant entries in those Annexes.

The attention of those persons, entities and bodies is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s) as indicated in the websites in Annex II to Council Regulation (EU) No 765/2006, in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds for basic needs or specific payments (cf. Article 3 of the Regulation).

The persons, entities and bodies concerned may submit a request to the Council, together with supporting documentation, that the decision to include them on the above-mentioned list should be reconsidered, to the following address before 30 November 2023.

Council of the European Union

General Secretariat

RELEX.1

Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175

1048 Bruxelles/Brussel

BELGIQUE/BELGIË

Email: sanctions@consilium.europa.eu

The attention of the persons, entities and bodies concerned is also drawn to the possibility of challenging the Council’s decision before the General Court of the European Union, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 275, second paragraph, and Article 263, fourth and sixth paragraphs, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.


(1)  OJ L 285, 17.10.2012, p. 1.

(2)  OJ L 195 I, 3.8.2023, p. 31.

(3)  OJ L 134, 20.5.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ L 195 I, 3.8.2023, p. 1.