Brussels, 09/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Union has updated its list of terrorist and terrorist groups, adding the militant Sikh group Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), an organisation aiming to make the Indian state of Punjab an independent Sikh state. The change was announced by the Council of Ministers on 23 December, a few days ahead of a counter-terrorism meeting between the EU and India in Brussels. The meeting was attended by a delegation of Indian ministers, ministers from Germany, the UK and France and a European delegation headed by Gijs de Vries, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator. Adding the KZF to the EU blacklist means the EU can freeze all its assets, with national police and judicial authorities being required to cooperate in investigations. There are 48 organisations on the EU blacklist, including several Islamic groups, the Kurdish PKK, FARC in Colombia and dissident Northern Irish Republican and Loyalist groups. The list was drawn up following the 9/11 attacks in the United States and is regularly updated. (Common Position 2005/93/CFSP on counter-terrorism was published in Official Journal L340 of 23 December 2005. It came into force on 21 December 2005.)