Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/723 of 30 March 2023 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2465/96⁽¹⁾, and in particular Article 11(b) thereof,

Whereas:

Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 lists natural and legal persons, bodies or entities associated with the regime of former President Saddam Hussein covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources and by a prohibition to make funds or economic resources available.
On 27 March 2023, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to remove one natural person from the list of persons and entities to whom the assets freeze should apply.
Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that 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, 30 March 2023.

For the Commission,

On behalf of the President,

Director-General

Directorate-General for Financial Stability,

Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

ANNEX

In Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003, the following entry is deleted:

‘32. NAME: Amir Hamudi Hassan Al-Sa’di
DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH: 5 April 1938, Baghdad
NATIONALITY: Iraq
UNSC RESOLUTION 1483 BASIS:
Presidential Scientific Advisor;
Senior Deputy, Organisation of Military Industrialisation, 1988 to 1991;
Former President, Technical Corps for Special Projects;
PASSPORTS:?No 33301/862
Issued: 17 October 1997
Expires: 1 October 2005
?M0003264580
Issued: Unknown
Expires: Unknown
?H0100009
Issued: May 2001
Expires: Unknown’