Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/445 of 27 February 2025 amending for the 345th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations
Date: 2025-02-27
Institutions: Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, freezing of assets, international sanctions, natural person, terrorism








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2025/445


3.3.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/445
of 27 February 2025
         
amending for the 345th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations (1), and in particular Article 7(1), point (a) and Article 7a(5) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation.












(2)


On 21 February 2025, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council established pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutions 1267(1999), 1989(2011) and 2253(2015) removed, after concluding its consideration of the delisting request submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1904 (2009), one entry from the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.












(3)


Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 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, 27 February 2025.


For the Commission,


On behalf of the President,


Director-General


Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union






(1)  
            OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2002/881/oj.




ANNEX
In Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002, the following entry under the heading ‘Natural persons’ is deleted:


            ‘Lionel Dumont (alias (a) Jacques Brougere, (b) Abu Hamza, (c) Di Karlo Antonio, (d) Merlin Oliver Christian Rene, (e) Arfauni Imad Ben Yousset Hamza, (f) Imam Ben Yussuf Arfaj, (g) Abou Hamza, (h) Arfauni Imad, (i) Bilal, (j) Hamza, (k) Koumkal, (l) Kumkal, (m) Merlin, (n) Tinet, (o) Brugere, (p) Dimon). Address: France. Date of birth: 29.1.1971. Place of birth: Roubaix, France. Nationality: French. Other information: In custody in France as of May 2004. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2)(i): 25.6.2003.’
         




ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/445/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)