EU re-lists LTTE
Comprehensive review of listed terrorist groups:
The European Union (EU) has re-listed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) following a comprehensive review of listed terrorist
groups.
The announcement was made through Council Implementing Regulation
(EU) No 83/2011 of January 31, 2011, published in the Official Journal
of the European Union.
The EU terrorist listings made in terms of article 2(3) of Council
Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 of December 27, 2001 on specific
restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with
a view to combating terrorism, proscribes organizations listed operating
in EU member countries and freezes their assets.
By way of notices published in the Official Journal of the European
Union in July 2010, “the Council informed the persons, groups and
entities listed in Implementing Regulation (EU) No 610/2010 that it had
decided to keep them on the list.
The Council also informed the persons, groups and entities concerned
that it was possible to request a statement of the Council’s reasons for
putting them on the list where one had not already been communicated to
them. In the case of five groups, an amended statement of reasons was
made available in November 2010”.
The LTTE is re-listed among 26 Groups and Entities, on the
determination that they “have been involved in terrorist acts within the
meaning of Article 1(2) and (3) of Council Common Position 2001/931/CFSP
of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat
terrorism, that a decision has been taken with respect to them by a
competent authority within the meaning of Article 1(4) of that Common
Position, and that they should continue to be subject to the specific
restrictive measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001.”
The announcement published in the Official Journal of the European
Union states that “the Council has carried out a complete review of the
list of persons, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC) No
2580/2001 applies, as required by Article 2(3) of that Regulation. When
doing so it took account of observations submitted to the Council by
those concerned”.
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