Introductory text

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 267/2012 of 23 March 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran^f1, and in particular Article 46(2) thereof,

Whereas:

On 23 March 2012, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

By its judgments of 6 September 2013 in Cases T-493/10^f2, T-4/11 and T-5/11^f3, T-12/11^f4, T-13/11^f5, T-24/11^f6, T-42/12 and 181/12^f7, T-57/12^f8 and T-110/12^f9, the General Court of the European Union annulled the Council’s decisions to include Persia International Bank plc, Export Development Bank of Iran, Iran Insurance Company, Post Bank Iran, Bank Refah Kargaran, Naser Bateni, Good Luck Shipping LLC and Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction Co. on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

Persia International Bank plc, Export Development Bank of Iran, Iran Insurance Company, Post Bank Iran, Bank Refah Kargaran, Naser Bateni, Good Luck Shipping LLC and Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction Co. should be included again on the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012, on the basis of new statements of reasons concerning each of them.

An additional entity should be included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012, the identifying information in relation to another entity should be amended.

Following the judgment of the General Court in Case T-421/11^f10, Qualitest FZE is not included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex IX to Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.

In order to ensure that the measures provided for in this Regulation are effective, it should enter into force on the day of its publication,

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