(1)in Article 1a, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:‘2.The provision of technical assistance, financing or financial assistance or brokering services related to military activities 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, or related to non-lethal military equipment intended solely for humanitarian or protective use in accordance with Article 1b(1), shall be notified in advance to the Sanctions Committee established pursuant to paragraph 8 of UN Security Council Resolution 1533 (2004) (the ‘Sanctions Committee’). Such notification shall contain all relevant information, including, where appropriate, the end-user, the proposed date of delivery and the itinerary of shipments.’;