(1)

Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 of 18 July 2005 (2) implements themeasures provided for in Decision 2010/788/CFSP. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 lists the natural and legal persons, entities and bodies covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation.

(2)

United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2078 (2012) of 28 November 2012 amended the criteria for the designation of persons and entities to be subject to the restrictive measures set out in paragraphs 9 and 11 of UNSCR 1807 (2008).

(3)

On 20 December 2012, the Council adopted Decision 2012/811/CFSP (3) amending Decision 2010/788/CFSP in accordance with UNSCR 2078 (2012).

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 should also be amended in order to lay down the procedure for amending the list in Annex I to that Regulation. That procedure should include providing designated natural and legal persons, entities or bodies with the grounds for listing, so as to give them an opportunity to submit observations. Where observations are submitted, or substantial new evidence is presented, the Council should review its decision in light of those observations and inform the person, entity or body concerned accordingly.

(5)

The power to amend the list in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 should be exercised by the Council, in view of the specific threat to international peace and security in the region posed by the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in order to ensure consistency with the process for amending the Annex to Decision 2010/788/CFSP.

(6)

These measures fall within the scope of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and regulatory action at the level of the Union is therefore necessary in order to give effect to them, in particular with a view to ensuring their uniform application by economic operators in all Member States.

(7)

Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 should therefore be amended accordingly,

(1)

The following Article is inserted:

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(2)

Article 9 is replaced by the following:

(1)

On 23 March 2012, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

(2)

On 20 December 2012, the United Nations Security Council Committee established pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1737 (2006) amended the list of persons and entities subject to the travel ban and asset freeze pursuant to UNSCR 1737 (2006), UNSCR 1747 (2007), UNSCR 1803 (2008) and UNSCR 1929 (2010), adding two entities to that list. Those entities should be included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

(3)

Furthermore, in accordance with Council Decision 2013/270/CFSP of 6 June 2013 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran (2), additional entities with ties to entities already listed should be included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

(4)

In addition, the entries concerning certain persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 should be amended.

(5)

There are also no longer grounds for keeping certain entities on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

(6)

Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7)

In order to ensure that the measures provided for in this Regulation are effective, it should enter into force on the day of its publication,

(1)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in Annex XVI, Part A thereto.

(2)

The standard import value is calculated each working day, in accordance with Article 136(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, taking into account variable daily data. Therefore this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,

(1)

On 26 July 2010, the Council adopted Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(2)

On 20 December 2012, the United Nations Security Council Committee established pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1737 (2006) amended the list of persons and entities subject to the travel ban and asset freeze pursuant to UNSCR 1737 (2006), UNSCR 1747 (2007), UNSCR 1803 (2008) and UNSCR 1929 (2010), adding two entities to that list. Those entities should be included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures as set out in Annex I to Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(3)

Furthermore, the Council considers that additional entities with ties to entities already listed should be included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures as set out in Annex II to Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(4)

In addition, the Council considers that the entries concerning certain persons and entities included in Annex II to Decision 2010/413/CFSP should be amended.

(5)

There are no longer grounds for keeping certain entities on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures as set out in Annex II to Decision 2010/413/CFSP.

(6)

Decision 2010/413/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,

(1)

In the Annex to the French version of Commission Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU (2), several references are made to protocols of agreement to be signed with the Member States on whose territory the centres or stations are located. However, these are in fact not protocols of agreement but agreements.

(2)

Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU provides for the setting-up of a centre to monitor the security of the system and the services provided, known as the ‘Galileo Security Centre (GSMC)’. The French version of the Annex to the Decision specifies that the creation of this centre will be the subject of protocols of agreement between France and the United Kingdom to be signed during 2012.

(3)

In fact, the protocols of agreement between France and the United Kingdom for the creation of the Galileo Security Centre were not signed in 2012, but agreements should be signed in 2013.

(4)

Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU also provides for the development of a ‘GNSS service centre (GSC)’ in Madrid, to act as the interface between the system, on the one side, and the users of the open service, the commercial service and the Safety of Life Service on the other. The French version of the Annex to the Decision specifies that the creation of this centre was the subject of a protocol of agreement signed with Spain on 17 March 2011.

(5)

In fact, the text signed on 17 March 2011 was not a protocol of agreement but merely a memorandum of understanding. The development of the GSC should, however, be the subject of an agreement with Spain in 2013.

(6)

Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU also provides for the development of a centre, known as the ‘Galileo performance centre’, which, on behalf of the programme manager and independently of the user, evaluates the quality of the services provided and communicates time and geodetic references to the user communities.

(7)

For reasons relating to the nature of the functions of the Galileo performance centre, the name of the centre as shown in the Annex to Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU should be amended to ‘Galileo reference centre’ (‘GRC’). Furthermore, in the light of the presence of existing installations and equipment suitable for the tasks assigned to the Galileo reference centre, the security needs, and the technical and budgetary constraints linked to its operation, it would seem that the ESTEC site in Noordwijk, in the Netherlands, owned by the European Space Agency, is best placed to host the centre. It must be pointed out that the Galileo reference centre should not overlap with the instruments already in place in the Member States. Lastly, the development of the centre will not be completed in 2014 but only in 2016.

(8)

Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU further provides for the creation of a series of Galileo distance survey centres, known as ‘GSS stations’ which, to allow the provision of services, carry out pseudo-distance measuring and collect the signals sent by the satellites to monitor their quality. The optimum distribution around the globe of these stations should take account of geographical limitations.

(9)

The series of GSS stations does not include any stations in the North Pacific area. As it is essential that this area also be covered, a GSS station should be set up there. The said station is planned for Tokyo, in Japan, in the Belgian embassy, should the results of the feasibility studies prove positive.

(10)

The Annex to implementing Decision 2012/117/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.

(11)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee set up by Article 19(1) of Regulation (EC) No 683/2008,

(1)

in the row relating to the creation of the Galileo security centre (GSMC), in the ‘Measures’ column, the words ‘of protocols of agreement’ appearing in the French version are replaced by the words ‘of agreements’ and the year ‘2012’ is replaced by the year ‘2013’;

(2)

in the row relating to the development of a GNSS service centre (GSC), in the ‘Measures’ column, the sentence ‘It is the subject of an agreement signed with Spain on 17 March 2011’ is replaced with the sentence ‘It is the subject of a memorandum of understanding signed with Spain on 17 March 2011 and is expected to be the subject of an agreement with Spain to be signed during 2013’;

(3)

in the row relating to the development of an SAR service centre, in the ‘Measures’ column the words ‘of a protocol of agreement’ appearing in the French version are replaced by the words ‘of an agreement’;

(4)

the row relating to the development of a Galileo performance centre is amended as follows:

(5)

In the row relating to the creation of GSS stations, in the ‘Measures’ column, second paragraph, the words ‘Tokyo (Japan),’ are inserted between ‘Madeira (Portugal),’ and ‘Kerguelen’.