May 10, 2018

The United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch (the Secretariat) automatically conveys updates to the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List, to States, regional and sub-regional organizations by e-mail shortly following updates made to a Security Council Committee's sanctions list.
  
This update to the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List was made on 9 May 2018 following an update the sanctions list maintained by the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da'esh), and Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities (the ISIL (Da'esh), and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee).

To this effect, please see below, the links to the United Nations Security Council Press Releases, concerning the changes to the sanctions list of the above-mentioned Committee:

English

https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sc13330.doc.htm

Also attached below are note verbale from the Chair of the Committee addressed to Permanent Representatives and Observers to the United Nations in New York conveying changes made on 9 May 2018 to the Committee's list of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2368 (2017)  adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. 

An updated version, in English, of the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List is accessible in XML, PDF and HTML formats in all United Nations official languages at the following URLs:
https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/un-sc-consolidated-list

CHANGES TO UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL 

TALIBAN SANCTIONS LIST

10 April   2018

 On 10 April 2018, the following amendment specified with underline and strikethrough in the entry below was made to the 1988 List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2255 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Click here to view the amended entries.

The updated copy of the Taliban Sanctions List which may also be downloaded in XML, PDF, and HTML formats on the Committee's website at the following URL:

https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1988/materials

 
The public, covered institutions and relevant government agencies are reminded that those included and designated under  the Taliban Sanctions List are covered by the freeze order issued by the AMLC on  8 October 2012 under  AMLC Resolution No. TF-02 and are subject to the prohibition against dealing under Section 8 of the Terrorism Financing Suppression Act of 2012.
 
For information and compliance.

Executive Director Mel Georgie B. Racela of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Secretariat issued AMLC Letter No. AMLET-18-03 dated 20 April 2018, providing for Operational Guidelines in the Conduct of the 2018 Third Round Mutual Evaluation of the Philippines. He issued the Guidelines pursuant to the Memorandum dated 22 February 2018 of Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea, as authorized by President Rodrigo R. Duterte.
 
The Guidelines aim to (a) create an inter-agency Mutual Evaluation (ME) Working Group (WG) and sub-working groups (SWGs); (b) enumerate the functions and obligations of the member-agencies with respect to the ME process; (c) outline the ME process and provide guidance as to the different components of the process; (d) provide timelines for the ME process and ME-related activities; (e) enumerate effects of a “non-compliant” or “poor” ME; and (f) lay down the framework towards the adoption of a National AML/CFT Policy Strategy. The Guidelines are addressed to all participating government agencies and other entities.
 
 The Mutual Evaluation (ME) is a government-wide concern as what will be assessed is the compliance of the Philippines with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Forty Recommendations and the effectiveness of its anti-money laundering/counterfinancing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime. The entire ME process spans two (2) years, and will require the support and active participation of various government agencies, including supervisory authorities, law enforcement agencies, and public and private stakeholders. The Philippines will be evaluated by a pool of experts from Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) from other member-jurisdictions of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), pursuant to the APG’s membership rules.   
 
The Philippines has undergone MEs in 2003 and 2008. This 2018, the Philippines will undergo the Third Round ME. In 2008, the Philippines underwent the Second Round ME, in which its technical compliance with the FATF Recommendations was assessed. The Philippines was rated poorly due to major shortcomings in the country’s AML/CFT legal framework. Consequently, the Philippines was placed in the FATF’s “grey list” and deemed a “high risk” jurisdiction. It was subjected to the FATF’s International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) process. With the passage of Republic Act No. 10365, introducing significant reforms in the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001 (AMLA), the Philippines was removed from the “grey list” and the list of ICRG-monitored jurisdictions.  
 
Since 2013, the Philippines has made significant improvements in its AML/CFT regime, including the passage of RA No. 10927, which included casinos as covered persons, the adoption of the Rules on the Imposition of Administrative Sanctions, amendment of the AMLA’s implementing rules and regulations, and the adoption of codified registration and reporting guidelines, to name a few. The Philippines is targeting a favorable rating for both technical compliance and effectiveness standards.
 
 For the full text of AMLC Letter No. AMLET-18-03, click here.

Annex B: Scope and members of the different Sub-Working Groups (SWG), click here

27 August  2017

On 27  August  2017, the following amendment specified with underline and strike through in the entry below was made to the 1988 List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2255 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Click here to view the amended entries.

The updated copy of the Taliban Sanctions List which may also be downloaded in XML, PDF, and HTML formats on the Committee's website at the following URL:

https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1988/materials

 
The public, covered institutions and relevant government agencies are reminded that those included and designated under  the Taliban Sanctions List are covered by the freeze order issued by the AMLC on  8 October 2012 under  AMLC Resolution No. TF-02 and are subject to the prohibition against dealing under Section 8 of the Terrorism Financing Suppression Act of 2012.
 
For information and compliance.