COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2025/2397 of 24 November 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 imposing additional restrictive measures directed against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda and natural and legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them

Article 1

In Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1686, the following paragraph is added:

‘5. The measures referred to in Article 2(1) and (2), insofar as they apply to the “Allied Democratic Forces”, shall be suspended for as long as the measures laid down in Article 2(1) and (2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 (1) apply to that entity.

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 of 18 July 2005 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (OJ L 193, 23.7.2005, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2005/1183/oj).’."

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 November 2025.

For the Council

The President

L. LØKKE RASMUSSEN

(1)

OJ L, 2025/2398, 24.11.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/2398/oj.

(2) Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 of 20 September 2016 imposing additional restrictive measures directed against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda and natural and legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them (OJ L 255, 21.9.2016, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/1686/oj).

(3) Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/1693 of 20 September 2016 concerning restrictive measures against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda and persons, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them and repealing Common Position 2002/402/CFSP (OJ L 255, 21.9.2016, p. 25, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2016/1693/oj).

(4) Council Decision 2010/788/CFSP of 20 December 2010 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (OJ L 336, 21.12.2010, p. 30, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2010/788/oj).

(5) Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 of 18 July 2005 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (OJ L 193, 23.7.2005, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2005/1183/oj).

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/2397/oj

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