Council Regulation (EU) 2015/613

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(2)The following Articles are inserted:‘Article 1a1.It shall be prohibited to provide, directly or indirectly:

(a)technical assistance or brokering services related to the goods and technology listed in the Common Military List of the European Union^note (“Common Military List”) or related to the provision, manufacture, maintenance and use of goods included in that list, to any non-governmental entity or person operating in the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”);

(a)technical assistance, financing or financial assistance or brokering services related to arms and related material intended solely for the support of or use by Monusco;

(b)financing or financial assistance related to the sale, supply, transfer or export of goods and technology listed in the Common Military List, including in particular grants, loans and export credit insurance, as well as insurance and reinsurance, for any sale, supply, transfer or export of such items, or for any provision of related technical assistance or brokering services to any non-governmental entity or person operating in the territory of the DRC;

(b)technical assistance, financing or financial assistance or brokering services related to non-lethal military equipment intended solely for humanitarian or protective use, where the provision of such assistance or services has been notified in advance to the Sanctions Committee in accordance with Article 1a(2);

(c)technical assistance, financing or financial assistance or brokering services related to arms and related material intended solely for the support of or use by the African Union Regional Task Force.

2.The provision of technical assistance, financing or financial assistance or brokering services to any non-governmental or other person, entity or body in the DRC, or for use in the DRC, other than provision of that assistance to the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (“Monusco”) or the African Union Regional Task Force in accordance with Article 1b(1), shall be notified in advance to the Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations established pursuant to paragraph 8 of UN Security Council Resolution 1533 (2004) (“Sanctions Committee”). Those notifications shall contain all relevant information, including, where appropriate, the end-user, the proposed date of delivery and the itinerary of shipments.Article 1b1.By way of derogation from Article 1a, the competent authorities may authorise the provision of:2.No authorisations shall be granted for activities that have already taken place..

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Key facts

Type: Regulation · Council Regulation (EU) 2015/613
Adopted: 20 Apr 2015
In force: 22 Apr 2015
Made by: Council of the European Union
Official: EUR-Lex 32015R0613 · ELI

Topics

arms trade Democratic Republic of the Congo economic sanctions international sanctions Common foreign and security policy

History · 1 version

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Amends 1: Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/20052 provisions
Cited by 3: UC v Council of the European Union (C-455/24); Évariste Boshab and Others v Council of the European Union (T-582/17); Uganda Commercial Impex Ltd v Council of the European Union (T-107/15)

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brokering services
means:
claim
means any claim, whether asserted by legal proceedings or not, made before or after the date of entry into force of this Regulation, under or in connection with a contract or transaction, and includes in particular a claim:
competent authorities
refers to the competent authorities of the Member States as identified on the websites listed in Annex II;
contract
includes a bond, guarantee or indemnity, particularly a financial guarantee or financial indemnity, and credit, whether legally independent or not, as well as any related provision arising under, or in connection with, the transaction;
contract or transaction
means any transaction of whatever form and whatever the applicable law, whether comprising one or more contracts or similar obligations made between the same or different parties;
economic resources
means assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are not funds, but may be used to obtain funds, goods or services;
freezing of economic resources
means preventing the use of economic resources to obtain funds, goods or services in any way, including, but not limited to, by selling, hiring or mortgaging them;
freezing of funds
means preventing any move, transfer, alteration, use of, access to, or dealing with funds in any way that would result in any change in their volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character, destination or other change that would enable the funds to be used, including portfolio management;
funds
means financial assets and benefits of every kind, including, but not limited to:
technical assistance
means any technical support related to repairs, development, manufacture, assembly, testing, maintenance, or any other technical service, in the form of an instruction, advice, training, transmission of working knowledge or skills or consulting services and including verbal forms of assistance;
territory of the Union
means the territories of the Member States to which the Treaty is applicable, under the conditions laid down in the Treaty, including their airspace.’