COUNCIL COMMON POSITION

2009/139/CFSP

of 16 February 2009

renewing restrictive measures against the leadership of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 15 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) On 25 February 2008, the Council adopted Common Position 2008/160/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against the leadership of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova(1). That Common Position applies until 27 February 2009.

(2) On the basis of a re-examination of Common Position 2008/160/CFSP, the restrictive measures should be renewed for a further period of 12 months.

(3) Annexes I and II to Common Position 2008/160/CFSP should be amended following a change in the function of certain persons covered by the restrictive measures,

HAS ADOPTED THIS COMMON POSITION:

Article 1

Common Position 2008/160/CFSP is hereby extended until 27 February 2010.

Article 2

Annexes I and II to Common Position 2008/160/CFSP shall be replaced by the text set out in Annexes I and II to this Common Position.

Article 3

This Common Position shall take effect on the date of its adoption.

Article 4

This Common Position shall be published in the

Official Journal of the European Union

Done at Brussels, 16 February 2009.

For the Council

The President

LIŠKA

(1)

OJ L 51, 26.2.2008, p. 23

ANNEX I

‘ANNEX I

List of persons referred to in Article 1(1)(i)

SMIRNOV, Igor Nikolayevich, “President”, born on 23 October 1941 in Khabarovsk, Russian Federation, Russian passport No 50No0337530.

SMIRNOV, Vladimir Igorevich, son of No 1 and “Chairman of the State Customs Committee”, born on 3 April 1961 in Kupiansk, Kharkovskaya oblast or Novaya Kakhovka, Khersonskaya oblast, Ukraine, Russian passport No 50No00337016.

SMIRNOV, Oleg Igorevich, son of No 1 and “Adviser to the State Customs Committee”, “Member of the Supreme Soviet”, born on 8 August 1967 in Novaya Kakhovka, Khersonskaya oblast, Ukraine, Russian passport No 60No1907537.

MARAKUTSA, Grigory Stepanovich, “Member of the Supreme Soviet”, “Special Representative of the Supreme Soviet for Interparliamentary Relations”, born on 15 October 1942 in Teya, Grigoriopolsky rayon, Republic of Moldova, old Soviet passport No 8BM724835.

LITSKAI, Valery Anatolyevich, former “Minister for Foreign Affairs”, born on 13 February 1949 in Tver, Russian Federation, Russian passport No 51No0076099, issued 9 August 2000.

KHAZHEYEV, Stanislav Galimovich, “Minister for Defence”, born on 28 December 1941 in Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation.

ANTYUFEYEV, Vladimir Yuryevich, alias SHEVTSOV, Vadim, “Minister for State Security”, born in 1951 in Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, Russian passport.

KOROLYOV, Alexandr Ivanovich, “Vice-President”, born on 24 October 1958 in Wroclaw, Poland, Russian passport.

BALALA, Viktor Alekseyevich, former “Minister of Justice”, born in 1961 in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.

10.

ZAKHAROV, Viktor Pavlovich, former “Prosecutor of Transnistria”, born in 1948 in Kamenka, Republic of Moldova.

11.

GUDYMO, Oleg Andreyevich, “Member of the Supreme Soviet”, “Chairman of the Committee on Security, Defence and Peacekeeping of the Supreme Soviet”, former “Deputy Minister of Security”, born on 11 September 1944 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, Russian passport No 51No0592094.

12.

KRASNOSELSKY, Vadim Nikolayevich, “Minister of Internal Affairs”, born on 14 April 1970 in Dauriya, Zabaykalskyi rayon, Chitinskaya oblast, Russian Federation.

13.

ATAMANIUK, Vladimir, “Deputy Minister of Defence”.’

ANNEX II

‘ANNEX II

List of persons referred to in Article 1(1)(ii)

URSKAYA, Galina Vasilyevna, former “Minister of Justice”, born on 10 December 1957 in Pyatiletka village, Brianskyi rayon, Brianskaya oblast, Russian Federation.

MAZUR, Igor Leonidovich, “Head of State Administration in Dubossary Rayon”, born on 29 January 1967 in Dubossary, Republic of Moldova.

PLATONOV, Yuri Mikhailovich, known as Yury PLATONOV, “Head of State Administration in Rybnitsa Rayon and Rybnitsa City”, born on 16 January 1948 in Klimkovo, Poddorsky rayon, Novgorodskaya oblast, Russian passport No 51No0527002, issued by the Russian Embassy in Chisinau on 4 May 2001.

CHERBULENKO, Alla Viktorovna, “Deputy Head of State Administration of Rybnitsa”, responsible for education issues.

KOGUT, Vecheslav Vasyilevich, “Head of State Administration in Bender”, born on 16 February 1950 in Taraclia, Chadir-Lunga rayon, Republic of Moldova.

KOSTIRKO, Viktor Ivanovich, “Head of State Administration in Tiraspol”, born on 24 May 1948, Komsomolsk na Amure, Habarovsky kray, Russian Federation’