Article 1
Open ↗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’.