Article 1
Open ↗In Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 356/2010, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: ‘3. Annex I shall consist of natural or legal persons, entities or bodies designated by the Security Council or the Sanctions Committee as: (a) engaging in, or providing support for, acts that threaten the peace, security or stability of Somalia, where such acts include, but are not limited to: (i) planning, directing or committing acts involving sexual and gender-based violence; (ii) acts that threaten the peace and reconciliation process in Somalia; (iii) acts that threaten the Federal Government of Somalia or the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) by force; (b) having acted in violation of the arms embargo or the prohibition against providing related assistance or the arms resale and transfer restrictions as stipulated in paragraph 34 of UNSCR 2093 (2013); (c) obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Somalia, or access to, or distribution of, humanitarian assistance in Somalia; (d) being political or military leaders recruiting or using children in armed conflicts in Somalia in violation of applicable international law; (e) being responsible for violations of applicable international law in Somalia involving the targeting of civilians, including children and women, in situations of armed conflict, including killing and maiming, sexual and gender-based violence, attacks on schools and hospitals and abduction and forced displacement; (f) being associated with Al-Shabaab, acts and activities indicating that an individual or entity is associated with Al-Shabaab including: (i) participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of Al-Shabaab; (ii) supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to Al-Shabaab; and (iii) recruiting for, or otherwise supporting acts or activities of Al-Shabaab or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof.’.