News Release
Financial Sanctions: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

30 December 2004

With the publication of Council Regulation (EC) No 1763/2004 in the Official Journal of the European Union (O.J. L315, p.14) on 14 October 2004, the Council of the European Union introduced financial sanctions against various persons who have been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). All such persons covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation were listed in Annex I of that Regulation. The list of targeted persons in Annex I was subsequently amended by the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1965/2004 of 16 November 2004.

With the publication of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2233/2004 in the Official Journal of the European Union (O.J. L379, p.75) on 24 December 2004, the Commission of the European Communities has amended again Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) 1763/2004 by removing the names of the following two persons:

Individuals

1. BRALO, Miroslav
DOB: 13/10/1967
POB: Kratine, Municipality of Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

2. MILOSEVIC, Dragomir
DOB: 04/02/1942
POB: Murgas, Municipality of Ub, Serbia and Montenegro
Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Copies of this Commission Regulation, the previous Regulations and related Bank Notices regarding the financial sanctions regime against various persons who have been indicted by the ICTY are available from the Financial Sanctions pages.