The Sanctions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Amendment of Council Regulation (EU) No 356/2010 (Somalia)

8.—(1) Council Regulation (EU) No 356/2010, imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain natural or legal persons, entities or bodies, in view of the situation in Somalia, is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1—

(a) after “shall apply:”, insert—

“(aa) ‘competent authority’, for the purpose of Article 9(1), means the Secretary of State;”;

(b) omit point (h).

(3) In Article 8(1) —

(a) in point (a), for “included in the Common Military List of the European Union (⁸)”, substitute “for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008(1)”;

(b) in points (b) and (c), for “included in the Common Military List of the European Union”, substitute “for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008”.

(4) In Article 9(1)—

(a) after “bodies”, insert “resident or located in the United Kingdom”;

(b) in point (a)—

(i) for “the competent authorities”, substitute “the competent authority”;

(ii) omit the words “as indicated on the websites listed in Annex II for the country where they are resident or located,”;

(iii) omit the words from “, and shall forward such information,” to the end of the point;

(c) in point (b), for “the competent authorities as indicated on the websites listed in Annex II”, substitute “the competent authority”.

(5) Omit Articles 10 to 16.

(6) In Article 17, for “the Union” and “a Member State” in each place these words occur, substitute “the United Kingdom”.

(7) In Article 18, omit the words from “This Regulation shall be binding” to the end of the Article.

(8) Omit Annex II.

(1)

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.