Foreign Assets Control Office June 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (``OFAC'') of the Department of the Treasury is amending Appendix A to 31 CFR chapter V to: Reflect the addition to, or removal from, Appendix A, since it was last published, of the names of individuals and entities subject to the various economic sanctions programs administered by OFAC; provide updated identifying and clarifying information for certain individuals and entities included on the appendix; reflect the addition of Iran as an entity's associated sanctions program in certain circumstances and the removal of certain entities listed in Appendix A to 31 CFR part 560; and reflect the removal of North Korea as a sanctions program under which entities may be blocked. OFAC also is amending the ``Appendixes to Chapter V-Note,'' which contains notes applicable to both Appendix A and Appendix B to 31 CFR chapter V, to reflect changes in the status of several programs and to clarify the obligations of financial institutions with respect to blocked vessels.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (``OFAC'') is amending the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations to expand the scope of an existing authorization of certain imports for diplomatic or official personnel to include the provision of goods or services in the United States to the diplomatic missions of the Government of Sudan to the United States and the United Nations, and to the employees of such missions, subject to certain conditions. The amended section also authorizes the importation of goods or services into the United States by the regional Government of Southern Sudan and its employees that involve the transit or transshipment of goods through areas of Sudan other than the Specified Areas of Sudan, subject to certain conditions.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the name of two newly-designated individuals 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.''