1. Annex Ia shall include the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies designated by the Council that are:

responsible for or complicit in, or having engaged in, directly or indirectly, actions that threaten the peace, stability and security of Haiti, including:

engaging in, directly or indirectly, or supporting criminal activities and violence involving armed groups and criminal networks that promote violence, including forcible recruitment of children by such groups and networks, kidnappings, trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants, and homicides and sexual and gender-based violence;

supporting illicit trafficking and diversion of arms and related materiel, or illicit financial flows related thereto;

acting for or on behalf of or at the direction of, or otherwise supporting or financing, a person or entity designated in connection with the activity described in points (i) and (ii), including through the direct or indirect use of the proceeds from organised crime, including proceeds from illicit production and trafficking in drugs and their precursors originating in or transiting through Haiti, the trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants from Haiti, or the smuggling and trafficking of arms to or from Haiti;

acting in violation of the arms embargo, or having directly or indirectly supplied, sold or transferred to armed groups or criminal networks in Haiti, or having been the recipient of, arms or any related materiel, or any technical advice, training or assistance, including financing and financial assistance, related to violent activities of armed groups or criminal networks in Haiti;

planning, directing or committing acts that violate international human rights law or acts that constitute human rights abuses, including those involving extrajudicial killing, including of women and children, and the commission of acts of violence, abduction, enforced disappearances or kidnappings for ransom in Haiti;

planning, directing or committing acts involving sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and sexual slavery, in Haiti;

obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Haiti or access to, or the distribution of, humanitarian assistance in Haiti;

(viii)

attacking personnel or premises of Union delegations and Member State diplomatic missions and operations in Haiti, or providing support for such attacks;

undermining democracy or the rule of law in Haiti through serious financial misconduct concerning public funds or the unauthorised export of capital; or

associated with natural or legal persons, entities or bodies designated under points (a) and (b).

2. Annex Ia shall include the grounds for listing the persons and entities referred to therein.

3. Annex Ia shall also contain, where available, the information necessary to identify the persons or entities concerned. With regard to natural persons, such information may include: names, including aliases; date and place of birth; nationality; passport and identity card numbers; gender; address, if known; and function or profession. With regard to entities, such information may include: names; place and date of registration; registration number; and place of business.’

in Article 5, point (f) is replaced by the following:

other appropriate actors as determined by the Sanctions Committee as regards Annex I and by the Council as regards Annex Ia.’;

Article 6 is replaced by the following:

COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2023/1569 of 28 July 2023 amending Regulation (EU) 2022/2309 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Haiti ANNEX ‘ANNEX Ia