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1. Unless the competent authority of the relevant Member State has given prior authorisation in accordance with Article 3(1), it shall be prohibited to:

(a) provide, directly or indirectly, technical assistance or brokering services related to the equipment, technology and software listed in Annex II, related to the installation, provision, manufacture, maintenance, repair and use of the equipment and technology listed in Annex II, or related to the provision, installation, operation or updating of any software listed in Annex II to any natural or legal person, entity or body in Russia or for use in Russia;

(b) provide, directly or indirectly, financing or financial assistance related to the equipment, technology and software listed in Annex II to any natural or legal person, entity or body in Russia or for use in Russia;

(c) provide any telecommunication or internet monitoring or interception services to, or for the direct or indirect benefit of, Russia’s government, public bodies, corporations and agencies or any person or entity acting on their behalf or at their direction.

2. For the purposes of point (a) of paragraph 1, the prohibition on maintenance and repair of the relevant equipment includes a prohibition on the maintenance, update and repair of any embedded software that is incorporated into the equipment.

3. For the purposes of point (c) of paragraph 1, ‘telecommunication or internet monitoring or interception services’ means those services that provide, in particular using equipment, technology or software listed in Annex II, access to and delivery of a subject’s incoming and outgoing telecommunications and call-associated data for the purposes of its extraction, decoding, recording, processing, analysis or storing, or any other related activity.