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B COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 02003R1210 — EN — 23.04.2021 — 047.001 — 1 This text is meant purely as a documentation tool and has no legal effect. The Union's institutions do not assume any liability for its contents. The authentic versions of the relevant acts, including their preambles, are those published in the Official Journal of the European Union and available in EUR-Lex. Those official texts are directly accessible through the links embedded in this document ►B COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2465/96 (OJ L 169, 8.7.2003, p. 6) Amended by: Official Journal No page date ►M1 Council Regulation (EC) No 1799/2003 of 13 October 2003 L 264 12 15.10.2003 ►M2 Commission Regulation (EC) No 2119/2003 of 2 December 2003 L 318 9 3.12.2003 ►M3 Commission Regulation (EC) No 2204/2003 of 17 December 2003 L 330 7 18.12.2003 ►M4 Commission Regulation (EC) No 924/2004 of 29 April 2004 L 163 100 30.4.2004 ►M5 Commission Regulation (EC) No 979/2004 of 14 May 2004 L 180 9 15.5.2004 ►M6 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1086/2004 of 9 June 2004 L 207 10 10.6.2004 ►M7 Council Regulation (EC) No 1412/2004 of 3 August 2004 L 257 1 4.8.2004 ►M8 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1566/2004 of 31 August 2004 L 285 6 4.9.2004 ►M9 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1087/2005 of 8 July 2005 L 177 32 9.7.2005 ►M10 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1286/2005 of 3 August 2005 L 203 17 4.8.2005 ►M11 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1450/2005 of 5 September 2005 L 230 7 7.9.2005 ►M12 Commission Regulation (EC) No 785/2006 of 23 May 2006 L 138 7 25.5.2006 ►M13 Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 of 20 November 2006 L 363 1 20.12.2006 ►M14 Council Regulation (EC) No 195/2008 of 3 March 2008 L 59 1 4.3.2008 ►M15 Council Regulation (EC) No 175/2009 of 5 March 2009 L 62 1 6.3.2009 ►M16 Council Regulation (EU) No 168/2010 of 1 March 2010 L 51 1 2.3.2010 ►M17 Council Regulation (EU) No 131/2011 of 14 February 2011 L 41 1 15.2.2011 ►M18 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 88/2012 of 1 February L 30 11 2.2.2012 2012 ►M19 Council Regulation (EU) No 85/2013 of 31 January 2013 L 32 1 1.2.2013 ►M20 Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 of 13 May 2013 L 158 1 10.6.2013 ►M21 Council Regulation (EU) No 791/2014 of 22 July 2014 L 217 5 23.7.2014 02003R1210 — EN 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Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/37 of 16 January L 13 13 17.1.2020 2020 ►M55 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2003 of 7 December L 412 29 8.12.2020 2020 ►M56 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2197 of 21 December L 434 50 23.12.2020 2020 ►M57 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/53 of 22 January L 23 16 25.1.2021 2021 ►M58 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/131 of 3 February L 40 21 4.2.2021 2021 ►M59 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/655 of 21 April 2021 L 137 10 22.4.2021 02003R1210 — EN — 23.04.2021 — 047.001 — 4 ▼B COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2465/96 Article 1 For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: 1. ‘Sanctions Committee’ means: the Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations which was established pursuant to paragraph 6 of Resolution 661 (1990); 2. ‘funds’ means financial assets and economic benefits of every kind, including but not limited to: (a) cash, cheques, claims on money, drafts, money orders and other payment instruments; (b) deposits with financial institutions or other entities, balances on accounts, debts and debt obligations; (c) publicly- and privately-traded securities and debt instruments, including stocks and shares, certificates representing securities, bonds, notes, warrants, debentures and derivatives contracts; (d) interest, dividends or other income on or value accruing from or generated by assets; (e) credit, right of set-off, guarantees, performance bonds or other financial commitments; (f) letters of credit, bills of lading, bills of sale; (g) documents evidencing an interest in funds or financial resources, (h) any other instrument of export-financing; 3. ‘economic resources’ means assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are not funds but can be used to obtain funds, goods or services; 4. ‘freezing of funds’ means preventing any move, transfer, alteration, use of or dealing with funds in any way that would result in any change in their volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character, destination or other change that would enable the use of the funds, including portfolio management; 5. ‘freezing of economic resources’ means preventing their use to obtain funds, goods or services in any way, including, but not limited to, by selling, hiring or mortgaging them; 02003R1210 — EN — 23.04.2021 — 047.001 — 5 ▼B 6. ‘Development Fund for Iraq’ means the Development Fund for Iraq held by the Central Bank of Iraq. ▼M14 Article 2 All proceeds from all export sales of petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas from Iraq, as listed in Annex I, as of 22 May 2003 shall be deposited into the Development Fund for Iraq under the conditions set out in UNSC Resolution 1483 (2003) and in particular paragraphs 20 and 21 thereof. ▼B Article 3 1. The following shall be prohibited: (a) the import of or the introduction into the territory of the Community of, (b) the export of or removal from the territory of the Community of, and (c) the dealing in, Iraqi cultural property and other items of archae­ ological, historical, cultural, rare scientific and religious importance including those items listed in Annex II, if they have been illegally removed from locations in Iraq, in particular, if: (i) the items form an integral part of either the public collections listed in the inventories of Iraqi museums, archives or libraries' conservation collection, or the inventories of Iraqi religious institutions, or (ii) there exists reasonable suspicion that the goods have been removed from Iraq without the consent of their legitimate owner or have been removed in breach of Iraq's laws and regulations.
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