Council Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 of 18 May 2006 concerning restrictive measures against President Lukashenko and certain officials of Belarus

Any Member State shall, where applicable, take any appropriate measures to recover or be entitled to recover, in judicial proceedings before the competent courts of a Member State, any direct or indirect damages, including legal costs, incurred by that Member State as a consequence of investor-State dispute settlement proceedings brought against a Member State in connection with measures imposed under this Regulation. The Member State shall, where applicable, be entitled to recover such damages from any persons, entities or bodies referred to in Article 8d(1), points (a), (b), (c) or (d), which initiated, intervened or participated in the investor-State dispute settlement or which seek to enforce any award, decision or judgment related to the investor-State dispute settlement and persons, entities or bodies that own or control any of those persons, entities or bodies.

Where applicable, the Union shall be entitled to recover any damages incurred by it under the same conditions.

Article 8m

Member States shall raise any available objection to the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards that were rendered against them in investor-State dispute settlement proceedings in connection with measures imposed under this Regulation.

Article 9

Article 9a

Article 9b

Where there is, in this Regulation, a requirement to notify, inform or otherwise communicate with the Commission, the address and other contact details to be used for such communication shall be those indicated in Annex II.

Article 10

This Regulation shall apply:

— within the territory of the Community, including its airspace,

— on board any aircraft or any vessel under the jurisdiction of a Member State,

— to any natural person inside or outside the territory of the Community who is a national of a Member State,

— to any legal person, entity or body which is incorporated or constituted under the law of a Member State,

— to any legal person, entity or body in respect of any business done in whole or in part within the Community.

Article 11

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

ANNEX I

List of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 2(1)

A. Natural persons referred to in Article 2(1)