Presentation
About the Committee
As part of Algeria's efforts to prevent and combat money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, a Committee to monitor targeted international sanctions has been established by the Algerian authorities under article 20 bis of the Law n°05-01 of February 6, 2005, amended and supplemented, on preventing and combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Based within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community abroad, this Committee, whose composition, organization and functioning are set by executive decree 25-102 of March 12, 2025, is responsible of follow up of the United Nations Security Council resolutions adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter and its related sanctions regimes.
Missions
According to Article 3 of Executive Decree 25-102, the Committee, based within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is responsible for monitoring relevant Security Council resolutions and the lists resulting from their implementation.
In this context, the Committee is responsible, in particular, for:
— Liaising and cooperating with the secretariats of the relevant Security Council bodies, monitoring groups, monitoring teams, and expert groups. In this capacity, it submits requests for the inclusion and/or removal of individuals or entities from the Security Council lists;
— Ensuring that the necessary information is collected, within the established timeframes, to prepare responses and provide additional information requested by the relevant Security Council bodies, monitoring groups, monitoring teams, and expert groups; — to request the information necessary to carry out its mission, in particular information relating to the identification of individuals and entities who, on the basis of serious and consistent grounds of suspicion or conviction, meet the criteria for inclusion on the list, and to obtain such information from those subject to the list, regulatory, control, and/or supervisory authorities, ministries, administrations, public institutions, and legal entities governed by public or private law;
— Preparing national reports on the implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions and ensuring that they are submitted to the competent authorities within the established deadlines;
— Ensuring the exchange of information and data, in coordination with the various sectors concerned, on the implementation of Security Council sanctions;
— Examining and deciding on requests for the inclusion and removal of individuals or entities on the Security Council lists;
— Proposing the necessary measures to adapt national legislation in the context of the implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions; — to contribute to awareness-raising, capacity-building, and training of those responsible, at the national level, for implementing measures related to Security Council sanctions;
— Periodically reviewing the Security Council lists to determine whether to request an update of the inclusion or removal of individuals or entities from its lists based on new information or data;
—Taking all necessary measures to achieve the objectives assigned to it.
Contact Us
Directorate General of Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, plateau des Annassers, Kouba, Alger
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