
Article 1 
Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1890 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 6 November 2020.
For the Council
The President
M. ROTH
ANNEX

In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1890, entries 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:

 Name Identifying information Reasons Date of listing
‘1. Mehmet Ferruh AKALIN Date of birth: 9.12.1960Passport No or ID: 13571379758Nationality: TurkishGender: male Mehmet Ferruh Akalın is Vice-President (Assistant General Manager) and member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO). He is the head of TPAO’s Exploration, R & D Centre and Information Technologies Departments.In his capacity as TPAO Vice-President and head of its Exploration Department, Mehmet Ferruh Akalın is responsible for planning, directing and implementing TPAO’s offshore hydrocarbon exploration activities. These include TPAO’s drilling activities which have not been authorised by the Republic of Cyprus, as set out below.Those unauthorised drilling activities were carried out by:
((a)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in the territorial sea of the Republic of Cyprus between July and September 2019;
((b)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, between October 2019 and January 2020;
((c)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, as well as an agreement with Israel, between January and April 2020;
((d)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, between April and September 2020;
((e)) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, in close proximity to its territorial sea, between November 2019 and January 2020;
((f)) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in a western area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, between May and November 2019. 27.2.2020
2. Ali Coscun NAMOGLU Date of birth: 27.11.1956Passport No or ID: 11096919534Nationality: TurkishGender: male Ali Coscun Namoglu is the Deputy Director of the Exploration Department of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO).In this capacity, Ali Coscun Namoglu is involved in planning, directing and implementing TPAO’s offshore hydrocarbon exploration activities. These include TPAO’s drilling activities which have not been authorised by Republic of Cyprus as set out below.Those unauthorised drilling activities were carried out by:
((a)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in the territorial sea of the Republic of Cyprus between July and September 2019;
((b)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, between October 2019 and January 2020;
((c)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, as well as an agreement with Israel, between January 2020 and April 2020;
((d)) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, between April and September 2020;
((e)) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, in close proximity to its territorial sea, between November 2019 and January 2020;
((f)) the TPAO drilling vessel Fatih in a western area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations, between May and November 2019. 27.2.2020’
