Regulation 9 Amendment of Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011 (Afghanistan)I1

United Kingdom

(1)

Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011, concerning restrictive measures directed against certain individuals, groups, undertakings and entities in view of the situation in Afghanistan, is amended as follows.

(2)

In Article 1—

(a)

after “shall apply:”, insert—

“F1(aa)
‘competent authority’, for the purpose of providing information in accordance with Article 8(1), means the Secretary of State or the Treasury, as the case may be; ”;

(b)

omit point (i).

(3)

In Article 2(a), for “listed in the Common Military List of the European Union (‘Common Military List’),”, substitute “ for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008 M1, ”.

(4)

Omit Article 4.

(5)

In Article 8—

(a)

in paragraph 1, after “bodies”, insert “ resident or located in the United Kingdom ”;

(b)

in point (a), omit the words “in the Member State where they are resident or located” to the end of the point;

(c)

in point (b), for “that competent authority”, substitute “ the competent authority ”.

(6)

Omit Articles 9 to 13.

(7)

In Article 14, for “the Union” and “a Member State” in each place these words occur, substitute “ the United Kingdom ”.

(8)

In Article 15, omit the words from “This Regulation shall be binding” to the end of the Article.

(9)

Omit Annex II.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 9(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Sanctions (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/380), regs. 1, 16(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 2008/3231. Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 2017/85 and subsequently amended by S.I. 2017/697 and S.I. 2018/165.

Commencement

I1: Reg. 9 in force on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1