Por: Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation HM Treasury
11/09/2019
Introduction
1. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 of 17 May 2019 has been corrected.
2. Identifying information for one entity has been corrected.
Notice summary (Full details are provided in the Annex to this Notice)
3. The following entry has been corrected to the consolidated list and is still subject to an
asset freeze:
• Nizar AL-ASSAD (Group ID: 12041)
What you must do
4. You must:
i. check whether you maintain any accounts or hold any funds or economic resources
for the persons set out in the Annex to this Notice;
ii. freeze such accounts, and other funds or economic resources;
iii. refrain from dealing with the funds or assets or making them available (directly or
indirectly) to such persons unless licensed by the Office of Financial Sanctions
Implementation (OFSI);
iv. report any findings to OFSI, together with any additional information that would
facilitate compliance with the Regulation;
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v. provide any information concerning the frozen assets of designated persons that OFSI
may request. Information reported to OFSI may be passed on to other regulatory
authorities or law enforcement.
5. Where a relevant institution has already reported details of accounts, other funds or
economic resources held frozen for designated persons, they are not required to report
these details again.
6. Failure to comply with financial sanctions legislation or to seek to circumvent its provisions
is a criminal offence.
Legislative details
7. On 11 September 2019 a Corrigenda was published in the Official Journal of the European
Union (O.J. L 234, 11.9.2019, p.31).
8. The Corrigenda corrected Council Regulation (EU) No 36/2012.
Further Information
9. A copy of the Corrigenda can be obtained from the website of the Official Journal of the
European Union:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legalcontent/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32019R0798R(01)&from=EN
10. Copies of recent Notices, certain EU Regulations, UNSC Resolutions and UK legislation can
be obtained from the Syria financial sanctions page on the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/financial-sanctions-regime-specificconsolidated-lists-and-releases
11. Further details on the UN measures in respect of Syria can be found on the relevant UN
Sanctions Committee webpage: http://www.un.org/sc/committees.
12. Please note there are also import and export restrictions on Syria Further guidance on
export and trade sanctions is available from the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/sanctions-embargoes-and-restrictions.
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13. It should be noted that the Annex to this Notice and the Consolidated List may include
certain background information provided by the UN Sanctions Committee that is not
included in Annex II to the Regulation.
14. For more information please see our guide to financial sanctions:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-faqs
Enquiries
15. Non-media enquiries, reports and licence applications should be addressed to:
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
HM Treasury
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
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16. Media enquiries about how financial sanctions are implemented in the UK should be
addressed to the Treasury Press Office on 020 7270 5238.
17. Media enquiries about the sanctions measures themselves should be addressed to the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Press Office on 020 7008 3100.
