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Terrorism: Proscribed Organisations

Volume 703: debated on Tuesday 22 July 2008

asked Her Majesty’s Government:

What steps they are taking, following the deproscription of the People’s Mujaheddin of Iran as a result of a judgment in the Court of Appeal, to remove the People’s Mujaheddin of Iran from the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations. [HL4961]

The UK informed EU partners of the POAC and Court of Appeal judgments, and of the courts’ view that the PMOI was not concerned in terrorism. The UK also informed the Council of the European Union when the PMOI was deproscribed on 24 June, and invited the Council to consider the implications of the UK deproscription on the current EU listing under Common Position 931/2001.

The Council has subsequently adopted a new decision (Common Position 586/2008 of 15 July), on the basis of a different national competent authority decision not associated with the UK proscription, to continue to list the PMOI. The Council has written to the PMOI, setting out in a revised statement of reasons why it has been retained on the list.