Federal Register: August 18, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 158)
DOCID: fr18au09-98 FR Doc E9-19789
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Foreign Assets Control Office
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr18au09-98
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Update to Identifying Information Associated With an Entity Previously Designated Pursuant to Executive Order 13382
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (``OFAC'') has made changes to the identifying information associated with the following entity, previously designated pursuant to Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters.''
IRISL BENELUX NV, Noorderlaan 139, B2030, Antwerp, Belgium; V.A.T. Number BE480224531 (Belgium) [NPWMD]
SUMMARY:
Update to Identifying Information Associated With An Entity Previously Designated Pursuant to Executive Order (13382)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Electronic and Facsimile Availability
This document and additional information concerning OFAC are available from OFAC's Web site (http://www.treas.gov/offices/ enforcement/ofac) or via facsimile through a 24hour faxon demand service, tel.: (202) 6220077.
Background
On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 17011706) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 13382 (70 FR 38567, July 1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 29, 2005. In the Order, the President took additional steps with respect to the national emergency described and declared in Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1)
The persons listed in an Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of
delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture,
acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by
any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3) any person
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant agencies,
to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material,
technological or other support for, or goods or services in support of,
any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above or any person
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the
Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury,
in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and
other relevant agencies, to be owned or controlled by, or acting or
purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
The listing for this entity now appears as:
ANTARES SHIPPING COMPANY NV (f.k.a. IRISL Benelux NV),
Noorderlaan 139, B2030, Antwerp, Belgium; V.A.T. Number BE480224531 (Belgium) [NPWMD]
Dated: August 10, 2009.
Barbara Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Assistant Director, Compliance Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: (202) 6222490.