Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 is amended as follows:
(1)
in Article 2b, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
‘1. Annex Ia shall include the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies designated by the Council on any of the following grounds:
(a)
obstructing a consensual and peaceful solution towards elections in the DRC, including by acts of violence, repression or inciting violence, or by undermining the rule of law;
(b)
planning, directing, or committing acts that constitute serious human rights violations or abuses in the DRC;
(c)
being responsible for sustaining the armed conflict, instability or insecurity in the DRC;
(d)
providing support to natural or legal persons, entities or bodies referred to in point (c);
(e)
inciting violence in connection with the actions mentioned in points (b), (c) and (d);
(f)
exploiting the armed conflict, instability or insecurity in the DRC, including through the illicit exploitation or trade of natural resources and wildlife;
(g)
being associated with natural or legal persons, entities or bodies referred to in points (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f).’
;
(2)
in Annex Ia, the title is replaced by the following:
‘List of natural or legal persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 2b’.