For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

‘funds’ means financial assets and benefits of every kind, including but not limited to:

cash, cheques, claims on money, drafts, money orders and other payment instruments;

deposits with financial institutions or other entities, balances on accounts, debts and debt obligations;

publicly- and privately-traded securities and debt instruments, including stocks and shares, certificates representing securities, bonds, notes, warrants, debentures and derivatives contracts;

interest, dividends or other income on or value accruing from or generated by assets;

credit, right of set-off, guarantees, performance bonds or other financial commitments;

letters of credit, bills of lading and bills of sale;

documents evidencing an interest in funds or financial resources;

‘freezing of funds’ means preventing any move, transfer, alteration, use of, access to, or dealing with funds in any way that would result in any change in their volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character, destination or other change that would enable the funds to be used, including portfolio management;

‘economic resources’ means assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are not funds but may be used to obtain funds, goods or services;

‘freezing of economic resources’ means preventing their use to obtain funds, goods or services in any way, including, but not limited to, by selling, hiring or mortgaging them;

‘territory of the Union’ means the territories of the Member States to which the Treaty is applicable, under the conditions laid down in the Treaty, including their airspace.

COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 101/2011 of 4 February 2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Tunisia ANNEX I ANNEX II