Council Regulation (EU) No 791/2014 of 22 July 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq

‘3 No funds or economic resources shall be made available, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of natural or legal persons, bodies or entities listed in Annex IV.’;

The prohibition set out in Article 4(3) shall not give rise to liability of any kind on the part of the natural or legal persons or entities concerned, if they did not know, and had no reasonable cause to suspect, that their actions would infringe this prohibition.’;

1 Article 4 shall not prevent the crediting of frozen accounts by financial or credit institutions that receive funds transferred by third parties to the account of the listed person, entity or body, provided that any additions to such accounts are also frozen. The financial or credit institution shall inform the competent authorities about such transactions without delay.

2 By way of derogation from Article 4(3), the competent authorities, as indicated on the websites listed in Annex V, may authorise the making available of certain funds or economic resources, under such conditions as they deem appropriate, after having determined that the funds or economic resources concerned are: (a) necessary to satisfy the basic needs of natural or legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex IV, and dependent family members of such natural persons, including payments for foodstuffs, rent or mortgage, medicines and medical treatment, taxes, insurance premiums, and public utility charges; (b) intended exclusively for payment of reasonable professional fees and reimbursement of incurred expenses associated with the provision of legal services; (c) intended exclusively for payment of fees or service charges for routine holding or maintenance of frozen funds or economic resources; or (d) necessary for extraordinary expenses, provided that the relevant competent authority has notified the grounds on which it considers that a specific authorisation should be granted to the competent authorities of the other Member States and to the Commission at least two weeks prior to authorisation.

3 The Member States concerned shall inform the other Member States and the Commission of any authorisation granted under this Article.’;

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.