{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1587/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/1587",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1587/2006 of 23 October 2006 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures against President Lukashenko and certain officials of Belarus",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1587",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1587/2006\nof 23 October 2006\namending Council Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures against President Lukashenko and certain officials of Belarus\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 of 18 May 2006 concerning restrictive measures against President Lukashenko and certain officials of Belarus, and in particular Article 8(a) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nIn accordance with Regulation (EC) No 765/2006, all funds and economic resources belonging to, owned, held or controlled by President Lukashenko as well as those belonging to, owned, held or controlled by certain other officials of Belarus who are responsible for the violations of international electoral standards in the presidential elections in Belarus on 19 March 2006 and the crackdown on civil society and democratic opposition, and those natural or legal persons, entities and bodies associated with them, as listed in Annex I to that Regulation, are frozen.\n(2)\nCouncil Decision 2006/718/CFSP amended Annex IV to Common Position 2006/276/CFSP which sets out the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources provided for in the Common Position, should apply. Annex I should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(3)\nIn order to ensure that the measures provided for in this Regulation are effective, this Regulation must enter into force immediately,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 134, 20.5.2006, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See page 72 of this Official Journal."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 101, 11.4.2006, p. 5. Common Position as amended by Common Position 2006/362/CFSP (OJ L 134, 20.5.2006, p. 45)."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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