Commission Regulation (EC) No 1516/2004 of 25 August 2004 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 131/2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Sudan

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 131/2004 of 26 January 2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Sudan(1), and in particular Article 7 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 131/2004 lists the competent authorities to which specific functions related to the implementation of that Regulation are attributed.

(2) On 1 May 2004 , the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia acceded to the European Union. The Act of Accession does not make provision for amendment of that Annex.

(3) The competent authorities of the new Member States should, therefore, be included as from 1 May 2004 in that Annex,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 131/2004 is hereby amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 May 2004 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 August 2004 .

For the Commission

Christopher Patten

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 21, 28.1.2004, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1353/2004 (OJ L 251, 27.7.2004, p. 1).

ANNEX

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 131/2004 is amended as follows:

1) The following is inserted between the entries for Belgium and Denmark:

芦CZECH REPUBLIC

Ministerstvo pr>ISO_2>霉myslu a obchodu

Licenèn铆 spr谩va

Na Franti鹿ku 32

110 15 Praha 1

Tel. (420-2) 24 06 27 20

Fax (420-2) 24 22 18 11禄

2) The following is inserted between the entries for Germany and Greece:

芦ESTONIA

Eesti V盲lisministeerium

Islandi v盲ljak 1

15049 Tallinn

Tel. (372-6) 31 71 00

Fax (372-6) 31 71 99

Finantsinspektsioon

Sakala 4

15030 Tallinn

Tel. (372-6) 68 05 00

Fax (372-6) 68 05 01禄

3) The following is inserted between the entries for Italy and Luxembourg:

芦CYPRUS

违蟺慰蠀蟻纬蔚委慰 螘尉蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏蠋谓

螞蔚蠅蠁. 螤蟻慰蔚未蟻喂魏慰蠉 螠蔚纬维蟻慰蠀

1447 螞蔚蠀魏蠅蟽委伪

韦畏位: (357-22) 30 06 00

桅伪尉: (357-22) 66 18 81

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Presidential Palace Avenue

1447 Nicosia

Tel. (357-22) 30 06 00

Fax (357-22) 66 18 81

LATVIA

Latvijas Republikas >ISO_4>脌rlietu ministrija

Br>ISO_4>茂v>ISO_4>茂bas iela 36

R>ISO_4>茂ga LV1395

Tel. Nr. (371) 701 62 01

Fax Nr. (371) 782 81 21

LITHUANIA

Economics Department

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

J. Tumo-Vai戮ganto 2

LT-2600 Vilnius

Tel.: (370-5) 236 25 92

Fax (370-5) 231 30 90禄

4) The following is inserted between the entries for Luxembourg and the Netherlands:

芦HUNGARY

Pénz眉gyminisztérium

1051 Budapest

J贸zsef n谩dor tér 2-4.

Tel. (36-1) 327 21 00

Fax (36-1) 318 25 70

MALTA

Bord ta' Sorveljanza dwar is-Sanzjonijiet

Direttorat ta' l-Affarijiet Multilaterali

Ministeru ta' l-Affarijiet Barranin

Palazzo Parisio

Triq il-Merkanti

Valletta CMR 02

Tel. (356-21) 24 28 53

Fax (356-21) 25 15 20禄

5) The following is inserted between the entries for Austria and Portugal:

芦POLAND

Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych

Departament Prawno - Traktatowy

Al. J. CH. Szucha 23

PL-00-580 Warszawa

Tel. (48-22) 523 93 48

Fax (48-22) 523 91 29禄

6) The following is inserted between the entries for Portugal and Finland:

芦SLOVENIA

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia

Pre鹿ernova 25

1000 Ljubljana

Tel. (386-1) 478 20 00

Fax (386-1) 478 23 47

http://www.gov.si/mzz

SLOVAKIA

Ministerstvo hospod谩rstva Slovenskej republiky

Sekcia obchodn媒ch vz>ISO_2>禄ahov a ochrany spotrebite>ISO_2>碌a

Mierov谩 19

827 15 Bratislava

tel. (421-2) 48 54 21 16

fax (421-2) 48 54 31 16禄

7) The following is added after the entry for the United Kingdom:

芦EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

Commission of the European Communities

Directorate-General for External Relations

Directorate CFSP

Unit A.2: Legal and institutional matters for external relations - Sanctions

CHAR 12/163

B-1049 Brussels

Tel. (32-2) 295 81 48/296 25 56

Fax (32-2) 296 75 63禄 .