Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/345 of 18 February 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses
Date: 2025-02-18
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, human rights, international sanctions, natural person








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2025/345


19.2.2025







            COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/345
         
of 18 February 2025
         
implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 of 7 December 2020 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses (1), and in particular Article 14(4) thereof,


Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:







(1)


On 7 December 2020, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2020/1998.












(2)


The information concerning two persons listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 should be updated.












(3)


Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that 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, 18 February 2025.


For the Council


The President

A. DOMAŃSKI
            





(1)  
            OJ L 410 I, 7.12.2020, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2020/1998/oj.




ANNEX
In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998, in section A (‘Natural persons’), entries number 80 and 105 are replaced by the following:











 


Names (Transliteration into Latin script)


Names


Identifying information


Reasons for listing


Date of listing




‘80.


Alexander Valerievich OBRAZTSOV*


Александр Валерьевич ОБРАЗЦОВ
(Russian spelling)


Position(s): Deputy head of the IK-3 penal colony
DOB: 1980-1990
POB: Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: male
Address: Priuralisky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, 629420


Alexander Valerievich Obraztsov is deputy head of the IK-3 penal colony.
In that position, he is directly responsible for the conditions of imprisonment in the IK-3 penal colony. The IK-3 penal colony, commonly known as the “Polar Wolf”, is the location where detained opposition politician Alexei Navalny died under unknown circumstances. The conditions of imprisonment in the IK-3 penal colony included physical violence such as torture and withholding warm water and adequate clothing in winter, medical assistance and food and water.
Therefore, Alexander Valerievich Obraztsov is responsible for serious human rights violations in Russia, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, arbitrary detentions, and the systematic violation of freedom of opinion and expression.


22.3.2024




105.


Vladimir Sergeevich SHVEDOV*


Владимир Сергеевич ШВЕДОВ
(Russian spelling)


Position(s): Head of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Execution of Criminal Sentences in the Russian Ministry of Justice
DOB: 26.10.1980
POB: Moscow, Russia
Passport number: 4506085659
Tax identification number: 773320017740
Nationality: Russian
Gender: male
Address: Moscow City, Russian Federation
Associated individuals: Vsevolod Lvovich Vukolov
Associated entities: Russian Ministry of Justice


Vladimir Sergeevich Shvedov is a high-level Russian official. He is head of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Execution of Criminal Sentences in the Russian Ministry of Justice.
In that position, as he leads the state policy in the field of execution of criminal sentences and considers citizens’ appeals, he was responsible for the execution of prison sentences of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
Therefore, Vladimir Sergeevich Shvedov is responsible for serious human rights violations in Russia, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, arbitrary detentions, and the systematic violation of freedom of opinion and expression.


22.3.2024’.








ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/345/oj
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