Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2019/351 of 4 March 2019 implementing Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria

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DECISIONS

COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (CFSP) 2019/351

of 4 March 2019

implementing 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 31(2) thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP of 31 May 2013 concerning restrictive measures against Syria (1),

and in particular Article 30(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:

(1)

On 31 May 2013, the Council adopted Decision 2013/255/CFSP.

(2)

In view of the gravity of the situation in Syria, and considering the recent ministerial appointments and guberna­

torial changes, seven persons should be added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities or bodies subject to

restrictive measures in Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP. The information relating to eight persons set out in

Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP should be updated.

(3)

Decision 2013/255/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP is amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision.

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, 4 March 2019.

For the Council

The President

A. ANTON

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

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ANNEX

I. The following entries are added to the list set out in Section A (Persons) of Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP:

Name

‘275.

276.

277.

Major General

Mohammad

Khaled

al-Rahmoun

Mohammad

Rami Radwan

Martini

Imad Muwaffaq

al-Azab

Identifying information

Born: 1957; Place of

birth: Idleb;

Reasons

Minister of Interior.

Date of listing

4.3.2019

Appointed in November 2018.

Gender: male

Born: 1970; Place of

birth: Aleppo;

Minister of Tourism.

4.3.2019

Appointed in November 2018.

Gender: male

Born: 1970; Place of

birth: Damascus

Countryside;

Minister of Education.

4.3.2019

Appointed in November 2018.

Gender: male

278.

Bassam Bashir

Ibrahim

Born: 1960; Place of

birth: Hama;

Minister of Higher Education.

4.3.2019

Appointed in November 2018.

Gender: male

279.

280.

281.

Born: 1961; Place of

birth: Lattakia;

Minister of Public Works and Housing.

Suhail

Mohammad

Abdullatif

Gender: male

Iyad Mohammad

al-Khatib

Born: 1974; Place of

birth: Damascus;

Minister of Communications and Tech­

nology.

Gender: male

Appointed in November 2018.

Born: 1962; Place of

birth: Aleppo;

Minister of Industry.

Mohammad

Maen Zein-alAbidin Jazba

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Appointed in November 2018.

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Appointed in November 2018.

Gender: male

II. In Section A (Persons) of Annex I to Decision 2013/255/CFSP, the following entries are replaced as follows:

Name

‘74.

Mohammad

Walid Ghazal

Identifying information

Born: 1951; Place of

birth: Aleppo;

Gender: male

107.

Mohammad

Ibrahim Al-Sha'ar

Born: 1956; Place of

birth: Aleppo;

Gender: male

172.

Ali Hadar

Gender: male

Reasons

Date of listing

Former Minister of Housing and Urban

Development. As a former Government

Minister, shares responsibility for the re­

gime's violent repression against the civ­

ilian population.

21.10.2014

Former Minister of Interior. As a former

Government Minister, shares responsi­

bility for the regime's violent repression

against the civilian population.

1.12.2011

Head of the National Reconciliation

Agency and former State Minister for

National Reconciliation Affairs. As a for­

mer Government Minister, shares re­

sponsibility for the regime's violent re­

pression against the civilian population.

16.10.2012

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Name

188.

190.

Bishr Riyad

Yazigi

Hussein Arnous

(a.k.a. Arnus)

Identifying information

Born: 1972;

Gender: male

Born: 1953;

Gender: male

4.3.2019

Reasons

Date of listing

Former Minister of Tourism. As a former

Government Minister, shares responsi­

bility for the regime's violent repression

against the civilian population.

24.6.2014

Water Resources Minister. As a Govern­

ment Minister, shares responsibility for

the regime's violent repression against

the civilian population.

24.6.2014

213.

Gender: male

Bishr

al-Sabban (a.k.a

Mohammed Bishr

Al-Sabban; Bishr

Mazin Al-Sabban)

Former Governor of Damascus, who was

appointed by, and is associated with, Ba­

shar al-Assad. Supports the regime and is

responsible for the violent repression

against the civilian population in Syria,

including engaging in discriminatory

practices against Sunni communities

within the capital.

28.10.2016

217.

Atef Naddaf

Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer

Protection.

14.11.2016

Born: 1956; Place of

birth: Damascus

Countryside;

Appointed in November 2018.

Gender: male

219.

Ali Al-Zafir

Born: 1962; Place of

birth: Tartous;

Gender: male

Former Minister of Communications and

Technology. As a former Government

Minister, shares responsibility for the re­

gime's violent repression against the civ­

ilian population.

14.11.2016’

قرار تنفيذي من مجلس الاتحاد الأوروبي بإضافة سبعة وزراء إلى عقوبات سورية، منهم: بسام بشير إبراهيم، علي حيدر، بشر يازجي، عاطف النداف، علي الظفير.