Article 3, Paragraph 1. · Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014

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1.Annex I shall include:

(a)natural persons responsible for, supporting or implementing actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, or stability or security in Ukraine, or which obstruct the work of international organisations in Ukraine;

(b)legal persons, entities or bodies supporting, materially or financially, actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine;

(c)legal persons, entities or bodies in Crimea or Sevastopol whose ownership has been transferred contrary to Ukrainian law, or legal persons, entities or bodies which have benefited from such a transfer;

(d)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies supporting, materially or financially, or benefiting from Russian decision-makers responsible for the annexation of Crimea or the destabilisation of Ukraine;

(e)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies conducting transactions with the separatist groups in the Donbas region of Ukraine;

(f)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies supporting, materially or financially, or benefitting from the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine; or

(g)leading businesspersons operating in Russia and their immediate family members, or other natural persons, benefitting from them, or businesspersons, legal persons, entities or bodies involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine;

(h)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies:

(i)facilitating infringements of the prohibition against circumvention of the provisions of this Regulation, or of Council Regulations (EU) No 692/2014^note, (EU) No 833/2014^note or (EU) 2022/263^note or of Council Decisions 2014/145/CFSP^note, 2014/386/CFSP^note, 2014/512/CFSP^note or (CFSP) 2022/266^note; or

(ii)otherwise significantly frustrating those provisions; or

(i)legal persons, entities or bodies operating in the Russian IT-sector with a license administered by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) Center for Licensing, Certification, and Protection of State Secrets or a ‘weapons and military equipment’ license administered by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade; or

(j)entities established in Russia, previously owned or controlled by entities established in the Union, ownership or control of which has been compulsorily transferred by the Government of the Russian Federation through laws, regulations, other legislative instruments or other action of a Russian public authority, or natural or legal persons, entities or bodies that have benefitted from such a transfer, and natural persons who have been appointed to the governing bodies of such entities in Russia without the consent of the Union entities which previously owned or controlled them;

(k)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies that own, control, manage or operate vessels that transport crude oil or petroleum products or mineral products originating in Russia or exported from Russia and practice irregular and high-risk shipping practices as set out in the International Maritime Organisation General Assembly resolution A.1192(33), or that otherwise provide material, technical or financial support to the operations of such vessels;

(l)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies forming part of, supporting, materially or financially, or benefitting from Russia’s military and industrial complex, including by being involved in the development, production or supply of military technology and equipment; or

(m)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies that have participated in or enabled transfers of ownership, control or economic benefit of the business interests of leading businesspersons who are subject to Union restrictive measures pursuant to the criterion set out in point (g) of this paragraph and listed in Annex I to this Regulation, thereby significantly frustrating those measures, with the exception of transfers expressly permitted pursuant to derogations and exemptions laid down in this Regulation or Regulation (EU) No 833/2014; or

(n)natural or legal persons, entities or bodies responsible for, supporting or implementing actions or policies contributing to the deportation, forced transfer, forced assimilation, including indoctrination, or militarised education of Ukrainian minors,

and natural or legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them.