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

1 June 2005

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 replaced by the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1965/2004 of 16 November 2004 and amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2233/2004 of 24 December 2004, Commission Regulation (EC) No 295/2005 of 23 February 2005, Commission Regulation (EC) No 607/2005 of 20 April 2005 and the Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 607/2005 of 23 April 2005.

With the publication of Commission Regulation (EC) No 830/2005 in the Official Journal of the European Union (O.J. L137, p.24) on 31 May 2005, the Commission of the European Communities has again amended Annex I by removing the names of the following three individuals:

Individuals

1. BOROVNICA, Goran
DOB: 15 August 1965
POB: Kozarac, Municipality of Prijedor, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Nationality: Bosnia & Herzegovina

2. PAVKOVIC, Nebojsa
DOB: 10 April 1946
POB: Senjski Rudnik, Serbia & Montenegro
Nationality: Serbia & Montenegro

3. POPOVIC, Vujadin
DOB: 14 March 1957
POB: Sekovici, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Nationality: Serbia & Montenegro

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