Updated: Updated to include (Reg 2015/109)
In 2004, the UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo on the Ivory Coast, plus travel and asset freeze restrictions on persons determined by the UN to constitute a threat to the peace and national reconciliation process in the Ivory Coast, be blocking implementation of the Linas-Marcoussis and Accra III Agreements, be responsible for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, be inciting publicly hatred and violence, and in violation of the arms embargo.
The EU adopted these restrictions in 2004, and in 2011 agreed to independently list persons obstructing the process of peace and national reconciliation, and jeopardising the proper outcome of the electoral process in the Ivory Coast.
Current EU regulations
22.09.2011 Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 949/2011 Amended Annex Ia to Regulation 560/2005.
12.07.2011 Council Regulation (EU) No 668/2011 Amended Article 4 to Regulation 174/2005.
27.06.2011 Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 623/2011 Amended Annex IA to Regulation 560/2005.
29.04.2011 Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 419/2011 Amended Annex IA to Regulation 560/2005.
08.04.2011 Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 348/2011 Amended Annex IA to Regulation 560/2005
06.04.2011 Council Regulation (EU) No 330/2011 Implemented UNSCR 1975 (2011). Amended Annexes I and IA to Regulation 560/2005. Added further restrictions and derogations to Regulation 560/2005.
31.01.2011 Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 85/2011 Amended Annex IA to Regulation 560/2005
14.01.2011 Council Regulation (EU) No 25/2011 Amended Regulation 560/2005 to provide for the EU to list, separately to the UN, persons obstructing the process of peace and national reconciliation, and in particular who are jeopardising the proper outcome of the electoral process in the Ivory Coast (Annex IA).
14.06.2006 Commission Regulation (EC) No 869/2006 Amended Annex I to Regulation 560/2005.
13.02.2006 Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2006 Amended Annex I to Regulation 560/2005.
12.04.2005 Council Regulation (EC) No 560/2005 Implemented the measures in UNSCR 1572 (2004) in respect of the freezing of funds and economic resources of persons designated by the United Nations Sanctions Committee.
31.01.2005 Council Regulation (EC) No 174/2005 Implemented the measures in UNSCR 1572 (2004) in respect of a ban on technical and financial assistance related to military activities and on equipment, which might be used for internal repression.
Current UK regulations
07.04.2011 The Ivory Coast (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1086) Made provision relating to the enforcement of Regulation 560/2005.
11.02.2005 The Ivory Coast (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2005 (SI 2005/253) Implemented certain restrictive measures in UNSCR 1572 (2004) in the UK, amongst other things, the prohibiting of the making available of funds to individuals and entities designated by the UN Sanctions Committee, and provided that breaches of the order be criminal offences.
09.02.2005 The Export Control (Iraq and Ivory Coast) Order 2005 (SI 2005/232) Provided that breaches of certain provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 174/2005 be criminal offences