Article 1

In Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 208/2014, the following paragraph is inserted:

‘1a.

For the purposes of paragraph 1 persons identified as responsible for the misappropriation of Ukrainian State funds include persons subject to investigation by the Ukrainian authorities:

(a)

for the misappropriation of Ukrainian public funds or assets or being an accomplice thereto; or

(b)

for abuse of office as a public office-holder in order to procure an unjustified advantage for him- or herself or for a third party and thereby causing a loss to Ukrainian public funds or assets, or being an accomplice thereto.’.