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Article 2 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 2 1. All funds and economic resources belonging to, owned, held or controlled by any natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annexes II and III shall be frozen. 2. No funds or economic resources shall be made available, directly or indirectly, to, or for the benefit of, natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annexes II and III. 3. Annex II shall include natural or legal persons, groups or entities that commit, or attempt to commit, terrorist acts or that participate in, or facilitate, the commission of terrorist acts and in respect of whom a decision has been taken by a competent authority as referred to in paragraph 4. 4. The list in Annex II shall be drawn up on the basis of precise information or material in the relevant file which indicates that a decision has been taken by a competent authority in respect of the natural or legal persons, groups or entities concerned, concerning the instigation of investigations or prosecution for a terrorist act, an attempt to perpetrate, participate in or facilitate such an act based on serious and credible evidence or clues, or condemnation for such deeds. 5. For the purposes of paragraph 4, “competent authority” means a judicial authority, or, where judicial authorities have no competence in the area covered by that paragraph, an equivalent competent authority in that area. 6. Annex III shall include: ; legal persons, groups or entities owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by one or more natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annex II; natural or legal persons, groups or entities acting on behalf of or at the direction of one or more natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annex II; leading members of legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annex II; natural or legal persons, groups or entities associated with natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annex II, including by: participating in the financing of terrorist acts committed by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annex II; participating in planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating terrorist acts committed by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annex II; providing or receiving terrorist training, such as instruction related to arms, explosive devices or other methods or technologies, for the benefit of natural or legal persons, groups or entities listed in Annex II; or being involved in recruitment for the benefit of natural or legal persons, groups or entities for the purposes of planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating terrorist acts listed in Annex II.’

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.