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The Executive Office for the Committee for Goods and Materials Subject to Import and Export Control hosted 10 remotely workshops, in partnership with relevant security authorities and other supporting entities. The workshops aim at raising awareness and compliance standards of regulatory institutions with the requirements and procedures focusing on preventing and suppressing terrorist financing. This also aims at halting the proliferation of weapons and its financing as well as related decisions, in accordance with legislations in force in the United Arab Emirates, and in line with the standards of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF).

Participants from the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Justice, the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and its localities have attended the 10 workshops. The department of economic development, the department of land and property, UAE free zones, local Customs department, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) have also joined the workshops.

Mr. Rashid Matar Al Mannai, Advisor to the Executive Office of the Committee for goods has inaugurated the last workshop held today. Mr. Al Mannai discussed the role of each authority and the objectives that lecturers are looking to achieve at the end of the workshop. Such objectives would shed the light on clarifying the purpose of curbing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and associated technology. This also includes the obligations to be implemented on the prevention and suppression of terrorism and terrorist financing based on policies, legislations and partnerships at both the local and international levels.

Mr. Al Mannai pointed out that this workshop is part of a series of workshops planned with strategic partners. The workshops aim at focusing on the concept of targeted financial sanctions, non-proliferation financing, the roles expected by each regulatory entity at the federal and local levels, the legal framework and the mechanism for dealing with the UN Security Council sanctions lists and domestic terrorism lists issued by the Council of Ministers.

On the other hand, Ahmed Al-Falasi, Head of the Inclusion Section of the Executive Office of the Committee for Goods has reviewed the UN Security Council website, which includes the consolidated list of individuals and entities to whom travel ban and asset freeze applies. Mr. AL-Falasi also looked into the website and the electronic system of the Committee for goods, and identified the role of regulatory entities, private sector and financial institutions towards any updates issued in those lists in accordance with the role referred to in the Cabinet Resolution 20 of 2019.

Al-Falasi stressed the importance of daily monitoring of the Security Council website link to consider any new update or issuance in the sanctions lists, as well as the website link of the Executive Office of the Committee for goods. This is to identify new versions of domestic terrorism list to take actions directly in the event of any update, and to explain the feature of subscription and registration on the Committee's website to ensure that necessary notifications are received and required updates on the lists are performed.