Introduction
1. Council Regulation (EU) 101/2011 (the “Regulation”) concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Tunisia amended.
2. Identifying information for the individuals listed in the Annex to this Notice has been amended.
Notice summary (Full details are provided in the Annex to this Notice)
3. The following entries have been amended and remain subject to an asset freeze:
- LTAIEF, Montassar Ben Habib Ben Bouali
- TRABELSI, Samira Bent Mohamed Ben Rhouma
4. The following entries have been removed and are no longer subject to an asset freeze:
- BEN ALI, Slim Ben Tijani Ben Haj Hamda
- BOUAOUINA, Akrem Ben Hamed Ben Taher
- TRABELSI, Bouthaina Bent Moncef Ben Mohamed
- TRABELSI, Nabil Ben Abderrazek Ben Mohamed
What you must do
5. You must:
- check whether you maintain any accounts or hold any funds or economic resources for the persons set out in the Annex to this Notice.
- freeze such accounts, and other funds or economic resources.
- refrain from dealing with the funds or assets or making them available (directly or indirectly) to such persons unless licensed by the Minister for External Relations (“MER”).
- report any findings to MER, together with any additional information that would facilitate compliance with the Regulation.
- provide any information concerning the frozen assets of designated persons that MER may request. Information reported to MER may be passed on to other regulatory authorities or law enforcement.
6. Where a relevant institution has already reported details of accounts, other funds or economic resources held frozen for designated persons, they are not required to report these details again.
7. Failure to comply with sanctions legislation or to seek to circumvent its provisions is a criminal offence.
Legislative details
8. The Regulation is implemented in Jersey under the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Implementation of EU Regulations) (Jersey) Order 2020 (the “EU Regulations Order”) which was made under Articles 3 and 4 of the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019 (“SAFL”).
9. On 25 January 2021 Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/49 (the “Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the Council of the European Union.
10. The Amending Regulation amended Annex I to the Regulation with effect from 26 January 2021. These changes are effective immediately in Jersey by virtue of the ambulatory provisions in Jersey’s sanctions legislation.
Further information
11. A copy of the Regulation and the Amending Regulation can be obtained from the website of the Official Journal of the European Union.
12. The EU Regulations Order and SAFL, can be found on the Jersey Legal Information Board website.
13. Copies of recent Notices, certain EU Regulations and Jersey legislation can be found on the Tunisia sanctions page on the Jersey Financial Services Commission (“JFSC”) website.
14. For more information on sanctions please see the Government of Jersey webpage on sanctions and the JFSC guidance on sanctions.
Enquiries
15. Non-media enquiries, reports and licence applications should be addressed to:
Head of International Compliance
External Relations
Office of the Chief Executive
sanctions@gov.je
Annex to Notice
16. 
Full details of the amendments can be found here .
gov.je