Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/108 of 26 January 2015 implementing Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria

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REGULATIONS

COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/108

of 26 January 2015

implementing Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the

situation in Syria

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 of 18 January 2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of

the situation in Syria and repealing Regulation (EU) No 442/2011 (1), and in particular Article 32(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

On 18 January 2012, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 36/2012.

(2)

By its judgments of 13 November 2014 in Cases T-653/11, T-654/11 and T-43/12, the General Court of the

European Union annulled the Council's decision to include Aiman Jaber, Khaled Kaddour, Mohammed Hamcho

and Hamcho International on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex II to

Regulation (EU) No 36/2012.

(3)

Aiman Jaber, Khaled Kaddour, Mohammed Hamcho and Hamcho International should be included again on the

list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures, on the basis of new statements of reasons.

(4)

Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 shall be amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 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, 26 January 2015.

For the Council

The President

E. RINKĒVIČS

(1) OJ L 16, 19.1.2012, p. 1.

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ANNEX

The following persons and entity shall be inserted in the list of persons and entities set out in Annex II to Regulation

(EU) No 36/2012.

I. LIST OF NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSONS, ENTITIES OR BODIES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 14 AND

ARTICLE 15(1)(a)

A. PERSONS

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

Date of birth: 20 May

1966.

Passport No

002954347

Prominent Syrian businessman, owner of

Hamcho International, close to key fig­

ures of the Syrian regime, including Presi­

dent Bashar al-Assad and Maher al-Assad.

Since March 2014, he has held the pos­

ition of Chairman for China of the Bilat­

eral Business Councils following his ap­

pointment by the Minister of Economy,

Khodr Orfali.

Mohammed Hamcho benefits from and

provides support to the Syrian regime

and is associated with persons benefiting

from and supporting the regime.

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Prominent Syrian businessman, close to

Maher al-Assad, a key figure of the Syrian

regime.

Khalid Qaddur benefits from and pro­

vides support to the Syrian regime and is

associated with persons benefiting from

and supporting the regime.

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Place of birth: Latakia

Prominent Syrian businessman, close to

key figures of the Syrian regime such as

Maher al-Assad and Rami Makhlouf.

He has also provided support to the re­

gime by facilitating the importation of oil

from Overseas Petroleum Trading to Syria

through his company El Jazireh.

Ayman Jabir benefits from and provides

support to the regime and is associated

with persons benefiting from and sup­

porting the regime.

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Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

Hamcho International

(a.k.a. Hamsho Interna­

tional Group)

Baghdad Street,

PO Box 8254

Damascus

Tel. +963 112316675

Fax +963 112318875

Website: www.

hamshointl.com

E-mail: info@

hamshointl.com and

hamshogroup@yahoo.

com

Hamcho International is a large Syrian

holding company owned by Mohammed

Hamcho.

Hamcho International benefits from and

provides support to the regime and is as­

sociated with a person benefiting from

and supporting the regime.

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18.

Mohammed (

)

Hamcho (

)

28.

Khalid (

) (a.k.a.

Khaled) Qaddur (

)

(a.k.a. Qadour, Qaddour,

Kaddour)

33.

Ayman (

) Jabir

(

) (a.k.a. Aiman

Jaber)

B. ENTITIES

3.

لائحة تنفيذية من مجلس الاتحاد الأوروبي بتحديث بيانات عدد من المشمولين بعقوبات سورية.