Brussels, 28/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - Through the written procedure, the EU Council of Ministers drew up the list on 27 December of terrorist organisations as provided for by the regulation on "specific restrictive measures against certain people and entities in the framework of the fight against terrorism". Included are, notably, the Basque Separatist organisation ETA and several satellite organisations, the Irish group Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) and the Real IRA, as well as Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem (terrorist branch of Mas) and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Other than ETA, the list includes Basque organisatioins part of it: KAS, Xaki, Ekin, the Organisation of the Basque Radical Youth, Jarrai-Haika-Segi and the Association for the Support of Basque Prisoners Gestora pro-amnista. This inclusion "has major political significance", Spain Minister for Home Affairs, Mariano Rajoy, declared to the press on the eve of the beginning of the Spanish Presidency. Spain did, however, fail in its attempt to have included on the list Batasuna, ETA's political wing, which is a legal party. The other groups on the list are: the Anti-Fascist Resistance Group of 1 October (GRAPO), the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), Orange Volunteers (OV), Red Hand Defenders (RHD), Epanastatiki Pirines (revolutionary core), Dokati Evdomi Noemvri (17 November revolutionary organisation), Espanastitakos Laikos Agonaa (ELA, revolutionary people's struggle), Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters (UDA/UFF).