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
Date: 2025-12-15
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Venezuela, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person








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2025/2559


16.12.2025







            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


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2017/2063 of 13 November 2017 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela (1), and in particular Article 17(4) thereof,


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

Whereas:







(1)


On 13 November 2017, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2017/2063.












(2)


On the basis of a review of the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2063, the entries for four natural persons set out therein should be updated.












(3)


Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2063 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2063 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, 15 December 2025.


For the Council


The President

K. KALLAS
            





(1)  
            OJ L 295, 14.11.2017, p. 21, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/2063/oj.




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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