Specific restrictive measures directed against persons acting in violation of the arms embargo with regard to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Council has presented some technical amendments to the Commission’s initial proposal.

The amendments concern in particular the following:

- provided that the Member State concerned has notified its intention to the United Nations Sanctions Committee and the Sanctions Committee has not objected within four working days of such notification (as opposed to the two days proposed by the Commission), the competent authorities of the Member States may authorise the release of certain frozen funds or economic resources or the making available of certain frozen funds or economic resources, under such conditions as they deem appropriate;

- the amendment of the Title of Annex I of the proposal : the Council is of the opinion that this list should be completed after designation by the Committee of the United Nations Security Council.