Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2025/2656 23.12.2025
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION(EU) 2025/2656
of 19 December 2025
amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on
economic and financial relations with Iraq
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council...
Official Journal EN of the European Union L series 2025/2656 23.12.2025 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION(EU) 2025/2656 of 19 December 2025 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 of 7 July 2003 concerning certain specific restrictions on economic and financial relations with Iraq and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2465/96(1), and in particular Article 11(b) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 lists natural and legal persons, bodies or entities associated with the regime of former President Saddam Hussein covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources and by a prohibition to make funds or economic resources available.
(2) On 9 December 2025, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to remove one natural person from the list of persons and entities to whom the assets freeze should apply.
(3) Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1 Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003 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, 19 December 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 169, 8.7.2003, p. 6.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2656/oj 1/2EN OJ L, 23.12.2025 ANNEX In Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1210/2003, the following entry is deleted: ‘82. Munir Al Qubaysi (alias(a) Munir Al-Kubaysi, (b) Muneer Al-Kubaisi, (c) Munir Awad, (d) Munir A Mamduh Awad).
Date of birth: 1966. Place of birth: Heet, Iraq. Address: Syria. Nationality: Iraqi’.
2/2 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2656/oj