
Article 1 
Common Position 2003/495/CFSP is hereby amended as follows:
Article 2 is replaced by the following:
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Article 2 
All funds or other financial assets or economic resources:

((a)) of the previous Government of Iraq or its State bodies, corporations or agencies located outside Iraq on the date of 22 May 2003, as designated by the Committee established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 661 (1990); or
((b)) that have been removed from Iraq, or acquired by Saddam Hussein or other senior officials of the former Iraqi regime and their immediate family members, including entities owned or controlled directly or indirectly by them or by persons acting on their behalf or at their direction, as designated by the Committee established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 661 (1990);
shall be frozen without delay and, unless those funds or other financial assets or economic resources are themselves the subject of a prior judicial, administrative or arbitral lien or judgement, in which case they may be used to satisfy such lien or judgement, Member States shall immediately cause their transfer to the successor arrangements to the Development Fund for Iraq put in place by the Government of Iraq under the conditions set out in Security Council Resolutions 1483 (2003) and 1956 (2010).'
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 20 December 2012.
For the Council
The President
E. FLOURENTZOU