Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1578 of 29 July 2025 implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism, and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/206
Date: 2025-07-29
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, international sanctions, legal person, natural person, terrorism








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2025/1578


30.7.2025







            COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/1578
         
of 29 July 2025
         
implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism, and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/206


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 of 27 December 2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism (1), and in particular Article 2(3) thereof,


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

Whereas:







(1)


On 30 January 2025, the Council adopted Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/206 (2), establishing an updated list of persons, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 applies (the ‘list’).












(2)


The Council has provided, where practically possible, all the persons, groups and entities with statements of reasons explaining why they were entered onto the list.












(3)


By way of a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union, the Council informed the persons, groups and entities on the list that it had decided to keep them thereon. The Council also informed those persons, groups and entities that it was possible to request a statement of the Council’s reasons for entering them onto the list where such a statement had not already been communicated to them.












(4)


The Council has reviewed the list, as required by Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001. When carrying out that review, the Council took into account the observations submitted to it by those concerned, as well as the updated information received from the competent national authorities on the status at national level of listed individuals and entities.












(5)


The Council has concluded that the entry for one person should be deleted from the list. At the same time, the Council has verified that competent authorities, as referred to in Article 1(4) of Council Common Position 2001/931/CFSP (3), have taken decisions with regard to all the other persons, groups and entities on the list to the effect that they have been involved in terrorist acts within the meaning of Article 1(3) of that Common Position. The Council has concluded that the specific restrictive measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 should continue to apply to the persons, groups and entities covered by Common Position 2001/931/CFSP.












(6)


The list of the persons, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 applies should be updated accordingly, and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/206 should be repealed,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The list provided for in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 is set out in the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/206 is hereby repealed.


Article 3
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, 29 July 2025.


For the Council


The President

M. BJERRE
            





(1)  
            OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p. 70, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2001/2580/oj.

(2)  Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/206 of 30 January 2025 implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism, and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055 (OJ L, 2025/206, 31.1.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/206/oj).

(3)  Council Common Position 2001/931/CFSP of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism (OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p. 93, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/compos/2001/931/oj).




ANNEX
List of persons, groups and entities referred to in Article 1
I.   Persons









1.


ABDOLLAHI Hamed (a.k.a. Mustafa Abdullahi), born 11.8.1960 in Iran. Passport number: D9004878.












2.


AL-DIN Hasan Izz (a.k.a. Garbaya Ahmed, a.k.a. Sa’id, a.k.a. Salwwan Samir), born 1963 in Lebanon, citizen of Lebanon.












3.


AL-NASSER Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed, born in Al Ihsa (Saudi Arabia), citizen of Saudi Arabia.












4.


AL-YACOUB Ibrahim Salih Mohammed, born 16.10.1966 in Tarut (Saudi Arabia), citizen of Saudi Arabia.












5.


ARBABSIAR Manssor (a.k.a. Mansour Arbabsiar), born 6.3.1955 or 15.3.1955 in Iran. Iranian and US national, passport number: C2002515 (Iran); passport number: 477845448 (USA). National ID number: 07442833, expiry date 15.3.2016 (USA driving licence).












6.


ASSADI Assadollah (a.k.a. Assadollah Asadi), born 22.12.1971 in Tehran (Iran), Iranian national. Iranian diplomatic passport number: D9016657.












7.


BOUYERI Mohammed (a.k.a. Abu Zubair, a.k.a. Sobiar, a.k.a. Abu Zoubair), born 8.3.1978 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).












8.


HASHEMI MOGHADAM Saeid, born 6.8.1962 in Tehran (Iran), Iranian national. Passport number: D9016290, valid until 4.2.2019.












9.


HASSAN EL HAJJ Hassan, born 22.3.1988 in Zaghdraiya, Sidon, Lebanon, Canadian citizen. Passport number: JX446643 (Canada).












10.


MELIAD Farah, born 5.11.1980 in Sydney (Australia), Australian citizen. Passport number: M2719127 (Australia).












11.


MOHAMMED Khalid Sheikh (a.k.a. Ali Salem, a.k.a. Bin Khalid Fahd Bin Abdallah, a.k.a. Henin Ashraf Refaat Nabith, a.k.a. Wadood Khalid Abdul), born 14.4.1965 or 1.3.1964 in Pakistan, passport number 488555.












12.


SHAHLAI Abdul Reza (a.k.a. Abdol Reza Shala’i, a.k.a. Abd-al Reza Shalai, a.k.a. Abdorreza Shahlai, a.k.a. Abdolreza Shahla’i, a.k.a. Abdul-Reza Shahlaee, a.k.a. Hajj Yusef, a.k.a. Haji Yusif, a.k.a. Hajji Yasir, a.k.a. Hajji Yusif, a.k.a. Yusuf Abu-al-Karkh), born circa 1957 in Iran. Addresses: (1) Kermanshah, Iran, (2) Mehran Military Base, Ilam Province, Iran.












13.


SHAKURI Ali Gholam, born circa 1965 in Tehran, Iran.




II.   Groups and entities









1.


‘Abu Nidal Organisation’ – ‘ANO’ (a.k.a. ‘Fatah Revolutionary Council’, a.k.a. ‘Arab Revolutionary Brigades’, a.k.a. ‘Black September’, a.k.a. ‘Revolutionary Organisation of Socialist Muslims’).












2.


‘Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade’.












3.


‘Al-Aqsa e.V.’.












4.


‘Babbar Khalsa’.












5.


‘Communist Party of the Philippines’, including ‘New People’s Army’ – ‘NPA’, Philippines.












6.


Directorate for Internal Security of the Iranian Ministry for Intelligence and Security.












7.


‘Gama’a al-Islamiyya’ (a.k.a. ‘Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’) (‘Islamic Group’ – ‘IG’).












8.


‘İslami Büyük Doğu Akıncılar Cephesi’ – ‘IBDA-C’ (‘Great Islamic Eastern Warriors Front’).












9.


‘Hamas’, including ‘Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem’.












10.


‘Hizballah Military Wing’ (a.k.a. ‘Hezbollah Military Wing’, a.k.a. ‘Hizbullah Military Wing’, a.k.a. ‘Hizbollah Military Wing’, a.k.a. ‘Hezballah Military Wing’, a.k.a. ‘Hisbollah Military Wing’, a.k.a. ‘Hizbu’llah Military Wing’ a.k.a. ‘Hizb Allah Military Wing’, a.k.a. ‘Jihad Council’ (and all units reporting to it, including the External Security Organisation)).












11.


‘Hizbul Mujahideen’ – ‘HM’.












12.


‘Khalistan Zindabad Force’ – ‘KZF’.












13.


‘Kurdistan Workers’ Party’ – ‘PKK’ (a.k.a. ‘KADEK’, a.k.a. ‘KONGRA-GEL’).












14.


‘Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’ – ‘LTTE’.












15.


‘Ejército de Liberación Nacional’ (‘National Liberation Army’).












16.


‘Palestinian Islamic Jihad’ – ‘PIJ’.












17.


‘Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’ – ‘PFLP’.












18.


‘Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command’ (a.k.a. ‘PFLP – General Command’).












19.


‘Devrimci Halk Kurtuluș Partisi-Cephesi’ – ‘DHKP/C’ (a.k.a. ‘Devrimci Sol’ (‘Revolutionary Left’), a.k.a. ‘Dev Sol’) (‘Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army/Front/Party’).












20.


‘Sendero Luminoso’ – ‘SL’ (‘Shining Path’).












21.


‘Teyrbazen Azadiya Kurdistan’ – ‘TAK’ (a.k.a. ‘Kurdistan Freedom Falcons’, a.k.a. ‘Kurdistan Freedom Hawks’).












22.


‘The Base’.







ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1578/oj
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