9.10.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 333/12

1.

Common Position 2002/402/CFSP (1) calls upon the Union to freeze the funds and economic resources of the members of the Al-Qaeda organisation and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them, as referred to in the list drawn up pursuant to UNSCR 1267(1999) and 1333(2000) to be updated regularly by the UN Committee established pursuant to UNSCR 1267(1999).

The list drawn up by this UN Committee comprises:

Acts or activities indicating that an individual, group, undertaking, or entity is ‘associated with’ Al-Qaeda include:

2.

The UN Security Council approved on 28, 29, 30 September and 2 October 2015 the addition of Aqsa Mahmood, Nasser Ahmed Muthana, Omar Ali Hussain, Sally-Anne Frances Jones, Boubaker Ben Habib Ben al-Hakim, Peter Cherif, Maxime Hauchard, Amru Al-Absi, Mu'tassim Yahya 'Ali Al-Rumaysh, Tarad Mohammad Aljarba, Lavdrim Muhaxheri, Aseel Muthana, Mujahidin Indonesian Timur (MIT), Jund Al-Khilafah in Algeria (JAK-A), Maghomed Maghomedzakirovich Abdurakhmanov, Islam Seit-Umarovich Atabiev, Akhmed Rajapovich Chataev, Tarkhan Ismailovich Gaziev, Zaurbek Salimovich Guchaev and Shamil Magomedovich Ismailov to the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee’s list.

Aqsa Mahmood, Nasser Ahmed Muthana, Omar Ali Hussain, Sally-Anne Frances Jones, Boubaker Ben Habib Ben al-Hakim, Peter Cherif, Maxime Hauchard, Amru Al-Absi, Mu'tassim Yahya 'Ali Al-Rumaysh, Tarad Mohammad Aljarba, Lavdrim Muhaxheri, Aseel Muthana, Mujahidin Indonesian Timur (MIT), Jund Al-Khilafah in Algeria (JAK-A), Maghomed Maghomedzakirovich Abdurakhmanov, Islam Seit-Umarovich Atabiev, Akhmed Rajapovich Chataev, Tarkhan Ismailovich Gaziev, Zaurbek Salimovich Guchaev and Shamil Magomedovich Ismailov may submit at any time a request to the UN Ombudsperson, together with any supporting documentation, for the decision to include them in the UN list referred to above, to be reconsidered. Such request should be sent to the following address:

See for more information at http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/delisting.shtml

3.

Further to the UN decision referred to in paragraph 2, the Commission has adopted Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1815 (2), which amends Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the Al-Qaeda network (3). The amendment, made pursuant to Article 7(1)(a) and 7a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 881/2002, adds Aqsa Mahmood, Nasser Ahmed Muthana, Omar Ali Hussain, Sally-Anne Frances Jones, Boubaker Ben Habib Ben al-Hakim, Peter Cherif, Maxime Hauchard, Amru Al-Absi, Mu'tassim Yahya 'Ali Al-Rumaysh, Tarad Mohammad Aljarba, Lavdrim Muhaxheri, Aseel Muthana, Mujahidin Indonesian Timur (MIT), Jund Al-Khilafah in Algeria (JAK-A), Maghomed Maghomedzakirovich Abdurakhmanov, Islam Seit-Umarovich Atabiev, Akhmed Rajapovich Chataev, Tarkhan Ismailovich Gaziev, Zaurbek Salimovich Guchaev and Shamil Magomedovich Ismailov to the list in Annex I of that Regulation (‘Annex I’).

The following measures of Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 apply to the individuals and entities included in Annex I:

4.

Article 7a of Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 provides for a review process where observations on the grounds for listing are submitted by those listed. Individuals and entities added to Annex I by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1815 may make a request for the grounds for their listing to the Commission. This request should be sent to:

5.

The attention of the individuals and entities concerned is also drawn to the possibility of challenging Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1815 before the General Court of the European Union, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the fourth and sixth paragraphs of Article 263 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

6.

For good order, the attention of the individuals and entities included in Annex I is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities in the relevant Member State(s), as listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002, in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds and economic resources for essential needs or specific payments in accordance with Article 2a of that Regulation.