Foreign Assets Control Office October 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury is amending the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 538, to include several new provisions implementing Executive Order 13412 of October 13, 2006.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the names of eleven newly-designated individuals whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13310 of July 28, 2003, ``Blocking Property of the Government of Burma and Prohibiting Certain Transactions.''

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the names of two newly designated individuals and five newly designated entities whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, ``Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism.''

The Treasury Department administers the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) as a targeted tool to help track terrorists and their networks. The TFTP utilizes certain financial transaction information provided by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a Belgium-based cooperative, under compulsion of administrative subpoenas. Discussions among U.S. and European authorities on the operation of the TFTP in the context of their respective counterterrorism efforts and data privacy laws culminated on June 28, 2007, in the ``Terrorist Finance Tracking Program Representations of the United States Department of the Treasury'' and a related exchange of letters between the Treasury Department and the EU. Each of these documents is included as an appendix to this notice.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the names of 21 newly-designated individuals and entities whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, ``Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers.''