Recital 47

(47) Freezing, confiscation and interlocutory sales orders should be communicated to the affected person without undue delay. Nevertheless, Members States should be able to provide for a right for competent authorities to postpone the communication of freezing orders to the affected person due to the needs of the investigation. The purpose of communicating such orders is, inter alia, to allow the affected person to challenge them. Therefore, such communication should, as a general rule, indicate the reason or reasons for the order concerned. Where the identity or whereabouts of an affected person is unknown or where communication to each of the affected persons would be a disproportionate burden on a competent authority, it should be possible to communicate by means of a public announcement.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.