Amendment of Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011 (Afghanistan)9.

(1)

Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011, concerning restrictive measures directed against certain individuals, groups, undertakings and entities in view of the situation in Afghanistan, is amended as follows.

(2)

In Article 1—

(a)

after “shall apply:”, insert—

F1“(aa)

‘competent authority’, for the purpose of providing information in accordance with Article 8(1), means the Secretary of State or the Treasury, as the case may be;”;

(b)

omit point (i).

(3)

In Article 2(a), for “listed in the Common Military List of the European Union (‘Common Military List’),”, substitute “ for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008 M1, ”.

(4)

Omit Article 4.

(5)

In Article 8—

(a)

in paragraph 1, after “bodies”, insert “ resident or located in the United Kingdom ”;

(b)

in point (a), omit the words “in the Member State where they are resident or located” to the end of the point;

(c)

in point (b), for “that competent authority”, substitute “ the competent authority ”.

(6)

Omit Articles 9 to 13.

(7)

In Article 14, for “the Union” and “a Member State” in each place these words occur, substitute “ the United Kingdom ”.

(8)

In Article 15, omit the words from “This Regulation shall be binding” to the end of the Article.

(9)

Omit Annex II.