Article 1
Open ↗Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2063 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Source
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2559 of 15 December 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2063 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2559 of 15 December 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2063 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela
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Article 2
Open ↗This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Supplementary provisions
ANNEXSupplementary provisions
Open ↗ANNEX In Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2063, in the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies, entries 2, 11, 31 and 37 are replaced by the following: Name Identifying information Reasons Date of listing ‘2. Gustavo Enrique GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ DOB: 2.11.1960 Gender: male President of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). General Director of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) between April 2019 and October 2024. Security and Intelligence Adviser to President Maduro since January 2019, and General Director of SEBIN from February 2014 to October 2018. During the times he has served as SEBIN director, officials under his ultimate authority committed acts of arbitrary detention, torture and cruel and inhuman treatment, including sexual violence, in El Helicoide detention centre. As General Director of SEBIN, he is responsible for serious human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, inhuman and degrading treatment, and torture, and the repression of civil society and the democratic opposition in Venezuela. 22.1.2018 11. Iván HERNÁNDEZ DALA DOB: 18.5.1966 Gender: male President of the National Telephone Company of Venezuela (Cantv). Major-General in FANB. Director-General of the Directorate-General for Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) between January 2014 and October 2024 and Head of the Presidential Guard between September 2015 and October 2024. As Head of the DGCIM, Iván Hernández Dala is responsible for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition and for serious human rights violations committed by members of the DGCIM under his command, including torture, the use of excessive force and the ill-treatment of detainees. 25.6.2018 31. Jorge Elieser MÁRQUEZ MONSALVE DOB: 20.2.1971 POB: Caracas, Venezuela ID number: V-8714253 Gender: male Minister of Electricity and Vice-President of Public Works and Utilities since 23 April 2024. Former Minister of the Office of the Presidency and Director-General of the National Commission of Telecommunications (CONATEL) since 7 August 2017. His actions have undermined democracy or the rule of law in Venezuela, including by severely limiting the rights of the Venezuelan people to a free press, free speech and information. He used the special powers of CONATEL to silence criticism and dissidents of the regime by blocking, filtering and obstructing internet websites, by revoking existing licences for radio and television stations and by refusing to grant new ones. 29.6.2020 37. Remigio CEBALLOS ICHASO DOB: 1.5.1963 ID-number: V-6557495 Gender: male Venezuela’s Ambassador to China. Former Minister of the Interior and Justice of Venezuela (August 2021 – August 2024) and Vice-President of the Government for Citizen Security. Former Commander of the Operational and Strategic Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces of Venezuela (Comando Estratégico Operacional Fuerzas Armadas Nacionales Bolivarianas (CEOFANB)), the highest organ in the Venezuelan Armed Forces (June 2017 – July 2021). CEOFANB controls the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and the Bolivarian National Guard. CEOFANB is also responsible for coordinating FANB interventions in demonstrations. In his position as Commander of CEOFANB, he was responsible for serious human rights violations, including the use of excessive force and inhuman and degrading treatment by officials of the FANB and by subordinate forces under his command, including the Bolivarian National Guard. Various sources, including the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, attribute human rights violations to FANB and the Bolivarian National Guard. 22.2.2021’
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