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Council Regulation (EU) 2025/2037 of 23 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

Council Regulation (EU) 2025/2037 of 23 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

Regulation (EU) 2025/2037 · Regulation · 2 articles

Data as of 2026-07-04 · Compiled from an official source version. Later amendments or repeals may not be reflected; the official text prevails. · Read the official text ↗

Article 1

Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 1, the following points are added: ‘(i) “owning” a legal person, entity or body means being in possession of 50 % or more of the proprietary rights of a legal person, entity or body, or having a majority interest therein; (j) “controlling” a legal person, entity or body means, but is not limited to: (i) having the right or exercising the power to appoint or remove a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body of a legal person, entity or body; (ii) having appointed solely as a result of the exercise of one’s voting rights a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of a legal person, entity or body who have held office during the present and previous financial year; (iii) controlling alone, pursuant to an agreement with other shareholders in or members of a legal person, entity or body, a majority of shareholders’ or members’ voting rights in that legal person, entity or body; (iv) having the right to exercise a dominant influence over a legal person, entity or body, pursuant to an agreement entered into with that legal person, entity or body or to a provision in its Memorandum or Articles of Association, where the law governing that legal person, entity or body permits its being subject to such agreement or provision; (v) having the power to, de facto, exercise the right to exercise a dominant influence referred to in point (iv), without being the holder of that right; (vi) having the right to use all or part of the assets of a legal person, entity or body; (vii) managing the business of a legal person, entity or body on a unified basis, while publishing consolidated accounts; or (viii) sharing jointly and severally the financial liabilities of a legal person, entity or body, or guaranteeing them.’ ; (2) Article 2 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 2 1.   All funds and economic resources belonging to, owned, held or controlled by any natural or legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex I shall be frozen. 2.   No funds or economic resources shall be made available, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of natural or legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex I.’ ; (3) in Article 3(1), the following point is added: ‘(n) natural or legal persons, entities or bodies responsible for, supporting or implementing actions or policies contributing to the deportation, forced transfer, forced assimilation, including indoctrination, or militarised education of Ukrainian minors,’ ; (4) in Article 6b, paragraph 5e is amended as follows: (a) in the introductory wording, the words ‘entity listed under entry number 270’ are replaced by the words ‘entities listed under entry numbers 56, 270 and 579’; (b) in point (a), the words ‘entity listed under entry number 270’ are replaced by the words ‘entities listed under entry numbers 56, 270 and 579’.

Article 2

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

Source: EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the EU), © European Union, reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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