Commission Regulation (EC) No 1567/2004 of 31 August 2004 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1727/2003 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of the Democratic Republic of Congo

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1727/2003 of 29 September 2003 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of the Democratic Republic of Congo(1), and in particular Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1727/2003 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 1727/2003 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, 31 August 2004 .

For the Commission

Christopher Patten

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 249, 1.10.2003, p. 5.

ANNEX

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1727/2003 is amended as follows:

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

«CZECH REPUBLIC

Ministerstvo pr>ISO_2>ùmyslu a obchodu

Licenèní správa

Na Franti¹ku 32

110 15 Praha 1

Tel. (420-2) 24 06 27 20

Fax (420-2) 24 22 18 11» ;

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

«ESTONIA

Eesti Välisministeerium

Islandi väljak 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» ;

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

«CYPRUS

Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών

Λεωφ. Προεδρικού Μεγάρου

1447 Λευκωσία

Tel. (357-22) 30 06 00

Fax (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>Àrlietu ministrija

Br>ISO_4>ïv>ISO_4>ïbas iela 36

R>ISO_4>ïga, LV 1395

Tel. (371) 701 62 01

Fax (371) 782 81 21

LITHUANIA

Economics Department

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

J. Tumo-Vai¾ganto 2

LT-2600 Vilnius

Tel. (370-5) 236 25 92

Fax (370-5) 231 30 90» ;

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

«HUNGARY

Pénzügyminisztérium

1051 Budapest

József nádor 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» ;

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

«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» ;

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

«SLOVENIA

Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve Republike Slovenije

Pre¹ernova 25

1000 Ljubljana

Tel. (386-1) 478 20 00

Fax (386-1) 478 23 47

E-mail: http://www.gov.si/mzz

SLOVAKIA

Ministerstvo hospodárstva Slovenskej republiky

Sekcia obchodných vz>ISO_2>»ahov a ochrany spotrebite>ISO_2>µa

Mierová 19

827 15 Bratislava

Tel. (421-2) 48 54 21 16

Fax (421-2) 48 54 31 16» .