F1Article 2b
1.
All funds and economic resources belonging to or owned, held or controlled by persons or entities designated by the Committee as engaging in or providing support for acts that threaten the peace, security or stability of Yemen, including but not limited to:
(a)
acts obstructing or undermining the successful completion of the political transition, as outlined in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Initiative and Implementation Mechanism Agreement;
(b)
acts impeding the implementation of the outcomes of the final report of the comprehensive National Dialogue Conference through violence, or attacks on essential infrastructure;F2 or
F3(c)
planning, directing or committing acts that violate applicable international human rights law or international humanitarian law, or acts that constitute human rights abuses, including sexual violence in armed conflict, or the recruitment or use of children in armed conflict in violation of international law, in Yemen; or
F4(d)
acts violating the arms embargo or obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Yemen or access to, or distribution of, humanitarian assistance in Yemen;
or persons or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or entities owned or controlled by them, shall be frozen.
The persons and entities referred to in this paragraph are listed in the Annex to this Decision.
2.
No funds or economic resources shall be made available directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of the persons or entities listed in the Annex to this Decision.
3.
Member States may allow for exemptions from the measures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 in respect of funds and economic resources which are:
(a)
necessary for basic expenses, including payments for foodstuffs, rent or mortgage, medicines and medical treatment, taxes, insurance premiums, and public utility charges;
(b)
intended exclusively for the payment of reasonable professional fees and the reimbursement of incurred expenses associated with the provision of legal services;
(c)
intended exclusively for the payment of fees or service charges for the routine holding or maintenance of frozen funds or economic resources;
after notification by the Member State concerned to the Committee of the intention to authorise, where appropriate, access to such funds or economic resources, and in the absence of a negative decision by the Committee within five working days of such notification.
4.
Member States may also allow for exemptions from the measures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 in respect of funds or economic resources which are:
(a)
necessary for extraordinary expenses, provided that such determination has been notified by the Member State concerned to the Committee and has been approved by the Committee; or
(b)
the subject of a judicial, administrative or arbitral lien or judgment, in which case the funds and economic resources may be used to satisfy that lien or judgment provided that the lien was entered into or the judgment delivered prior to the date on which the person or entity was included in the Annex, the lien or judgment is not for the benefit of a person or entity referred to in Article 1, and has been notified by the Member State concerned to the Committee;
5.
Paragraph 1 shall not prevent a designated person or entity from making payment due under a contract entered into before the listing of such a person or entity, provided that the relevant Member State has determined that the payment is not directly or indirectly received by a person or entity referred to in F1paragraph 1 and after notification by the relevant Member State to the Committee of the intention to make or receive such payments or to authorise, where appropriate, the unfreezing of funds or economic resources for this purpose, 10 working days prior to such authorisation.
6.
Paragraph 2 shall not apply to the addition to frozen accounts of:
(a)
interest or other earnings due on those accounts; or
(b)
payments due under contracts, agreements or obligations that were concluded or arose prior to the date on which those accounts became subject to restrictive measures under this Decision;
provided that any such interest, other earnings and payments continue to be subject to paragraph 1.