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Version date: 19 December 2023 - onwards
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Article 5b

1. By way of derogation from Article 2, the competent authorities of the Member States may authorise the release of certain frozen funds or economic resources belonging to the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex I pursuant to Article 3(1), point (j), or the making available of certain funds or economic resources to those natural or legal persons, entities or bodies, under such conditions as they deem appropriate, after having determined that those funds or economic resources are necessary for the sale or use of shares in, or assets of, legal persons, entities or bodies established in Russia listed in Annex I pursuant to Article 3(1), point (j), in order to enable the payment of the consideration agreed by the parties or for the compensation decided by a judicial or administrative authority or established by law in the context of the compulsory transfer of ownership or control by the Government of the Russian Federation.