COUNCIL REGULATION (CFSP) 2025/2601 of 15 December 2025 amending Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine

Article 1

Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 is amended as follows:

(1)

the following paragraph is inserted:

‘6a. Annex I shall also consist of a list of:

(a)

the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies who, in accordance with Article 4(1), point (ca), of Decision 2012/642/CFSP, have been identified by the Council as responsible for, implementing, supporting, benefitting from, involved in or facilitating actions or policies attributable to the Republic of Belarus which undermine or threaten democracy, the rule of law, stability or security in the Union or in one or several of its Member States, in an international organisation or in a third country, or which undermine or threaten the sovereignty or independence of one or several of its Member States, or of a third country, through the following actions:

(i)

planning, directing, engaging in, directly or indirectly, supporting, or otherwise facilitating the use of information manipulation and interference;

(ii)

planning, directing, engaging in, directly or indirectly, supporting, or otherwise facilitating any actions targeted at the functioning of democratic institutions, economic activities or services of public interest, including by unauthorised entry into the territory of a Member State, including its airspace, or aimed at interfering with, damaging or destroying, including through sabotage or malicious cyber activities as part of hybrid activities, critical infrastructure;

(iii)

planning, directing, engaging in, directly or indirectly, supporting, or otherwise facilitating or enabling widespread or systematic actions disrupting the functioning of critical infrastructure;

(b)

the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies who, in accordance with Article 4(1), point (cb), of Decision 2012/642/CFSP, have been identified by the Council as supporting the natural or legal persons, entities or bodies engaged in activities referred to in point (a);

(c)

the legal persons, entities or bodies who, in accordance with Article 4(1), point (e), of Decision 2012/642/CFSP, have been identified by the Council as legal persons, entities or bodies owned or controlled by persons, entities or bodies referred to in points (a) or (b).’

;

(2)

paragraph 8 is replaced by the following:

‘8. Annex I shall also include natural or legal persons, entities or bodies associated with the persons, entities or bodies referred to in paragraphs 5, 6, 6a(a), 7 and 7a.’.