Council Decision 2014/74/CFSP of 10 February 2014 amending Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria

11.2.2014

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 40/63

COUNCIL DECISION 2014/74/CFSP

of 10 February 2014

amending Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in

particular Article 29 thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP of 31 May

2013 concerning restrictive measures against Syria (1),

Whereas:

(1)

On 31 May 2013, the Council adopted Decision

2013/255/CFSP.

(2)

It is necessary to introduce in Decision 2013/255/CFSP

an exemption from the asset freeze to allow the release

of funds and economic resources of the Central Bank of

Syria and of Syrian State-owned entities in order to make

payments on behalf of the Syrian Arab Republic to the

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

(OPCW) for activities related to the OPCW verification

mission and the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons,

and in particular to the OPCW Syrian Special Trust Fund

for activities related to the complete destruction of Syrian

chemical weapons outside the territory of the Syrian

Arab Republic.

(3)

(4)

Further action by the Union is needed in order to

implement certain measures.

Decision 2013/255/CFSP should be amended accord­

ingly,

(1) OJ L 147, 1.6.2013, p. 14.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Article 28(3) of Decision 2013/255/CFSP, the following

point is added:

‘(h) intended for the Central Bank of Syria or Syrian Stateowned entities, as listed in Annex I and II, to make

payments on behalf of the Syrian Arab Republic to the

OPCW for activities related to the OPCW verification

mission and the destruction of Syrian chemical

weapons, and in particular to the OPCW Syrian

Special Trust Fund for activities related to the complete

destruction of Syrian chemical weapons outside the

territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.’.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its

publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 10 February 2014.

For the Council

The President

C. ASHTON

قرار من مجلس الاتحاد الأوروبي يعدّل عقوبات سورية للسماح بالأنشطة المرتبطة بتدمير الأسلحة الكيميائية السورية وفق قرار مجلس الأمن 2118.