| The European Union, Counter‑Terrorism Sanctions against Individuals and Human Rights Protection (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Chapter 12 of "Fresh Perspectives on the ‘War on Terror’". Since 1999, action by the European Union (the EU) as well as by the European Community (the Community or the EC) has been necessary to implement United Nations Security Council resolutions adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which impose economic measures against ‘blacklisted’ persons and corporate entities, in the framework of the so-called ‘war on terror’. A list of persons and entities having ties with the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Al Qa’ida, or their associates, is managed and updated by a Security Council committee set up, inter alia, to monitor states’ efforts to implement the sanctions imposed with Resolution 1267 (1999), and known as the ‘1267 Committee’ or the ‘Taliban Sanctions Committee’. A separate committee, called the ‘Counter-Terrorism Committee’ (CTC) was set up by the Security Council in order to supervise states’ compliance with Resolution 1373 (2001), most notably with the measures providing for the freezing of assets and other economic and financial resources of those who commit acts of terrorism, or attempt to commit them, or who take part in them. The 1267 Committee’s list of terrorist individuals and entities is ‘based on information provided by states and regional organisations’. The CTC, unlike the 1267 Committee, does not draw up or impose any such lists. | |||||||||||||||
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