Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1347 of 8 July 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/735 concerning restrictive measures in respect of the situation in South Sudan
Date: 2025-07-08
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, South Sudan, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2025/1347


9.7.2025







            COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/1347
         
of 8 July 2025
         
implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/735 concerning restrictive measures in respect of the situation in South Sudan


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2015/735 of 7 May 2015 concerning restrictive measures in respect of the situation in South Sudan, and repealing Regulation (EU) No 748/2014 (1), and in particular Article 22(4) thereof,


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

Whereas:







(1)


On 7 May 2015, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2015/735.












(2)


In accordance with Article 22(4) of Regulation (EU) 2015/735, the Council has reviewed the list of persons subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex II to that Regulation.












(3)


The Council has concluded that restrictive measures against one person listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2015/735 should be maintained and that the entry of that person should be updated.












(4)


Regulation (EU) 2015/735 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2015/735 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, 8 July 2025.


For the Council


The President

S. LOSE
            





(1)  
            OJ L 117, 8.5.2015, p. 13, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2015/735/oj.




ANNEX
In Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2015/735, entry No 1 is replaced by the following:










 


Name


Identifying information


Statement of Reasons


Date of listing




‘1.


Michael MAKUEI LUETH


DOB: 1947
POB: Bor, South Sudan; Bor, Sudan
Gender: male


Michael Makuei Lueth has held the position of Minister for Information and Broadcasting since 2013 and continues to hold that position in the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity in South Sudan. He was also the public spokesman for the government delegation to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development peace talks from 2014 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2018.
Michael Makuei Lueth has obstructed, in particular through inflammatory public statements, the implementation of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCSS) of August 2015 (replaced in September 2018 by the “Revitalised ARCSS” (R-ARCSS)), the work of the ARCSS Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC, renamed “Reconstituted JMEC” under R-ARCSS), the establishment of the ARCSS Transitional Justice Institutions (also provided for in R-ARCSS), and the operations of the United Nations’ Regional Protection Force.
In addition, Michael Makuei Lueth is involved in the systematic curtailment of political and democratic space and in the repression of media, including through regular threats against journalists and support to media censorship, which hinders democratisation and sustainable peace in South Sudan.
Since the beginning of 2025, Michael Makuei Lueth has publicly dismissed calls for dialogue, using confrontational and inflammatory rhetoric in an increasingly tense environment. Michael Makuei Lueth has also defended the arrests against First Vice-President Riek Machar and his allies, hampering efforts to deescalate the situation.
Therefore, Michael Makuei Lueth has been obstructing the political process in South Sudan and is responsible for serious violations of human rights, in particular freedom of expression.


3.2.2018’.








ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1347/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)