Article 1
Open ↗Decision (CFSP) 2016/1693 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 2, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to prevent the entry into, or transit through, their territories of persons, designated and subject to travel restrictions by the UNSC pursuant to UNSCRs 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000) and 2253 (2015) or by the Committee, identified as: (a) 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-Qaeda, ISIL (Da’esh), or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof; (b) supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to Al-Qaeda, ISIL (Da’esh), or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof; (c) recruiting for, or otherwise supporting acts or activities of Al-Qaeda, ISIL (Da’esh), or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof; (d) being involved in acts or activities under criteria (a), (b) or (c), including planning, directing or committing acts involving sexual and gender-based violence including rape, enslavement of persons, and cases of abduction and trafficking in persons, when such acts are being used by ISIL, Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups and entities as a tactic of terrorism; or (e) being controlled directly or indirectly by, or otherwise supporting, any individual, group, undertaking or entity associated with Al-Qaeda or ISIL (Da’esh), included on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda sanctions list.’. (2) in Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. All funds, other financial assets and economic resources, owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by persons, groups, undertakings and entities designated and subject to an asset freeze by the UNSC pursuant to UNSCRs 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000) and 2253 (2015), or by the Committee, identified as: (a) 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-Qaeda, ISIL (Da’esh), or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof; (b) supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to Al-Qaeda, ISIL (Da’esh), or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof; (c) recruiting for, or otherwise supporting acts or activities of Al-Qaeda, ISIL (Da’esh), or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof; (d) being involved in acts or activities under criteria (a), (b) or (c), including planning, directing or committing acts involving sexual and gender-based violence including rape, enslavement of persons, and cases of abduction and trafficking in persons, when such acts are being used by ISIL, Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups and entities as a tactic of terrorism; or (e) being owned or controlled directly or indirectly by, or otherwise supporting, any individual, group, undertaking or entity associated with ISIL (Da’esh) or Al-Qaeda, included on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda sanctions list, or by a third party acting on their behalf or at their direction; shall be frozen.’.