Implementation Assistance Notice # 1: Guidance to Member States on the application of the humanitarian exemption

In its paragraph 6 of resolution 2664 (2022), the Security Council directed its Sanctions Committees to assist Member States in properly understanding and fully implementing paragraph 1 of the resolution by issuing Implementation Assistance Notices taking into account the unique context of the sanctions falling under their respective mandates and to monitor the implementation of paragraph 1 of tha. [...] Paragraph 1 of resolution 2664 (2022) stipulates that the provision, processing or payment of funds, other financial assets, or economic resources, or the provision of goods and services necessary to ensure the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance or to support other activities that support basic human needs, by providers as specified in the same 1 Resolution 2664 (2022), preamble. [...] Paragraph 1 of resolution 2664 (2022) covers the provision, processing or payment of funds, other financial assets, or economic resources, or the provisions of goods and services necessary to ensure the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance or to support other activities that support basic human needs by the providers as specified in the same paragraph. [...] In the context of such activities as mentioned in paragraph 8, the provision, processing or payment of funds, other financial assets, or economic resources, or the provision of goods and services necessary to ensure the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance or to support other activities that support basic human needs by the providers named in paragraph 11 below are permitted and are not a vi. [...] Those providers that rely on paragraph 1 of resolution 2664 (2022) are requested to use reasonable efforts to minimize the accrual of any benefits prohibited by sanctions, whether as a result of direct or indirect provision or diversion, to individuals or entities designated by the Security Council or the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic o.