Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/386 of 24 February 2025 implementing Article 8a of Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine

Official Journal EN of the European Union L series 2025/386 25.2.2025 COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/386 of 24 February 2025 implementing Article 8a of Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine 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 765/2006 of 18 May 2006 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine (1), and in particular Article 8a thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:

(1) On 18 May 2006, the Council adopted Regulation (EC) No 765/2006.

(2) On the basis of a review of Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP (2), the Council has decided that the restrictive measures set out therein should be renewed until 28 February 2026.

(3) The statements of reasons relating to 10 natural and two legal persons included in the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 should be amended.

(4) Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 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, 24 February 2025.

For the Council The President K. KALLAS

(1) OJ L 134, 20.5.2006, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/765/oj.

(2) Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP of 15 October 2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine (OJ L 285, 17.10.2012, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/ dec/2012/642/oj).

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/386/oj 1/10ANNEX Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 is amended as follows:

(1) Table ‘A. Natural persons referred to in Article 2(1)’ is amended as follows:

(a) the following duplicate entry is deleted: ‘251. Iryna Vladimirovna PADKAVYRAVA’;

(b) the entry concerning the following deceased person is deleted: ‘30. Uladzimir Viktaravich KALACH’;

(c) entries 26, 108, 112, 125, 166, 195, 196, 258, 260, 261 are replaced by the following:

Names (Transliteration of Belarusian spelling) Names (Belarusian spelling) Identifying information Reasons for listing Date of listing (Transliteration of Russian (Russian spelling) spelling) ‘26. Ivan Yurievich Iван Юр’евіч Position(s): Director of the In his capacity as Director of the Akrestina detention centre in Minsk, Ivan 2.10.2020 SAKALOUSKI САКАЛОЎСКI Akrestina detention centre, Sakalouski is responsible for the inhumane and degrading treatment, Minsk including torture, inflicted on citizens detained in that detention centre in Ivan Yurievich Иван Юрьевич the wake of the 2020 presidential election.

SOKOLOVSKI СОКОЛОВСКИЙ DOB: 17.11.1979

Gender: male

108. Sviatlana, Anatoleuna Святлана Анатольеўна Position(s): Judge in the In her former position as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Commission 21.6.2021 LYUBETSKAYA ЛЮБЕЦКАЯ Constitutional Court of Belarus, on Law, Sviatlana Lyubetskaya was responsible for the adoption of the former member of the House of new Code of Administrative Infringements (entered into force on 1 March Svetlana Anatolevna Светлана Анатольевна Representatives of the National 2021) that authorises arbitrary arrests and imposed increased liability for LYUBETSKAYA ЛЮБЕЦКАЯ Assembly of the Republic of participation in mass events, including for display of political symbols.

Belarus, former Chairperson of Through these legislative activities, she is responsible for serious violations the Standing Commission on of human rights, including the right of peaceful assembly, and the Law repression of civil society and democratic opposition. These legislative activities also seriously undermine democracy and the rule of law in

DOB: 3.6.1971 Belarus.

POB: USSR (now Ukraine) She remains active in the Lukashenko regime as a judge in the

Gender: female Constitutional Court, appointed by Alexander Lukashenko.

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112. Siarhei Aliaksandravich Сяргей Аляксандравiч Position(s): First Deputy In his position as the First Deputy Chairman of Belteleradio Company (the 21.6.2021 GUSACHENKA ГУСАЧЭНКА Chairman of the National State National State Television and Radio Company), author and host of weekly Television and Radio Company propaganda television show “Glavnyy efir”, Siarhei Gusachenka has been Sergey Alexandrovich Сергей Александрович (Belteleradio Company) willingly providing the Belarusian public with false information about the GUSACHENKO ГУСАЧЕНКО outcome of elections, protests, repressions perpetrated by the state

DOB: 5.11.1983 authorities and activities of the Lukashenka regime that facilitate illegal

POB: Minsk, USSR (now crossing of the external borders of the Union. He is directly responsible for Belarus) the way in which the state television presents information about the situation in the country, thus lending support to the authorities including

Gender: male Lukashenka.

Nationality: Belarusian He is therefore supporting the Lukashenka regime.

Tel. (office): + 375 (17) 369-90-15

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125. Mikhail Saferbakovich Микаил (Михаил) Position(s): Businessman, Mikhail Gutseriev is a prominent Russian businessman, with business 21.6.2021 GUTSERIEV Сафарбекович ГУЦЕРИЕВ shareholder and chairman of the interests in Belarus in the sectors of energy, potash, hospitality and others.

board of executives of Slavkali, He is a long-time acquaintance of Aliaksandr Lukashenka and thanks to chairman of the board of that association has accumulated significant wealth and influence among

directors and shareholder of: JSC the political elite in Belarus. Safmar, a company which has been controlled Mospromstroi, Industrial by Gutseriev, was the only Russian oil firm that carried on supplying oil to Financial Group Safmar JSC, Belarusian refineries during the energy crisis between Belarus and Russia LLC Proekt Grad in early 2020.

Member of the board of Gutseriev also supported Lukashenka in disputes with Russia over oil directors and shareholder of JSC deliveries. Gutseriev has been the chairman of the board of directors of, NKNeftisa and a shareholder in, the Slavkali company, which is building the Nezhinsky potassium chloride mining and processing plant based on the

DOB: 9.3.1958 Starobinsky potash salt deposit near Lyuban. It is the largest investment in

POB: Akmolinsk, USSR (now Belarus, worth USD 2 billion. Lukashenka promised to rename the town Kazakhstan) of Lyuban “Gutserievsk” in his honour.

Gender: male His other businesses in Belarus have included fuelling stations and oil depots, a hotel, a business centre and an airport terminal in Minsk.

Nationality: Russian Lukashenka also thanked Gutseriev for his financial contributions to charity and investments worth billions of dollars in Belarus.

Gutseriev also declared himself to be the owner of a residency which de facto belongs to Lukashenka, thus covering him up when journalists started to investigate Lukashenka’s assets. Gutseriev attended Lukashenka’s secret inauguration on 23 September 2020. In October 2020 Lukashenka and Gutseriev both appeared at the opening of an orthodox church, which the latter sponsored.

Gutseriev assisted with the acquisition of CT scanners for Belarus during the COVID-19 crisis. Mikhail Gutseriev is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.

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166. Aleh Siarheevich Алег Сяргеевіч Position(s): Deputy Chairman of Aleh Haidukevich is the Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on 21.6.2021 HAIDUKEVICH ГАЙДУКЕВIЧ the Standing Committee on International Affairs in the House of Representatives of the National International Affairs in the Assembly, and member of the delegation of the National Assembly for Oleg Sergeevich Олег Сергеевич House of Representatives of the contacts with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He GAIDUKEVICH ГАЙДУКЕВИЧ National Assembly, member of made public statements, applauding diverting passenger flight FR4978 to the delegation of the National Minsk on 23 May 2021. This politically motivated decision was done Assembly for contacts with the without proper justification and was aimed at arresting and detaining Parliamentary Assembly of the opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich and Sofia Sapega and is a form of Council of Europe, chairman of repression against civil society and democratic opposition in Belarus.

the Liberal Democratic Party of Additionally, Aleh Haidukevich made public statements suggesting that Belarus Belarusian opposition leaders may be detained abroad and transported to

DOB: 26.3.1977 Belarus “in a car trunk”, thus supporting the ongoing crackdown of security forces on Belarusian democratic opposition and journalists.

POB: Minsk, USSR (now Belarus) Aleh Haidukevich is the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus, which supports Lukashenka.

Gender: male He is therefore supporting the Lukashenka regime.

Nationality: Belarusian

Personal identification:

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Passport number: MP2663333

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195. Ivan Ivanavich Iван Iванавiч ГАЛАВАТЫ Position(s): Former Ivan Galavatyi is the former director general of the state-owned enterprise 3.6.2022 GALAVATYI Director-General of the Open Belaruskali, which is a major source of revenue and foreign currency for Иван Иванович Joint Stock Company the Lukashenka regime. He is a former member of the Council of the Ivan Ivanovich ГОЛОВАТЫЙ “Belaruskali”, Chairman of the Republic and the National Assembly. He also holds multiple other high GOLOVATY supervisory board of JSC positions in Belarus and he has received multiple state awards, including Belarussian Potash Company, from Lukashenka, during his career. He has been closely associated with First Deputy Director of Nedra Lukashenka and members of his family. Aliaksandr Lukashenka has Nezhin proposed that Ivan Golovaty be sent to work as an ambassador to one of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. He is therefore Member of the Standing benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.

Committee of the Council of the Republic of the National As the former director general of Belaruskali, Ivan Galavatyi was directly Assembly of the Republic of involved in the Lukashenka regime’s relocation of Ukrainian children from Belarus for Foreign Affairs and occupied territories in collaboration with Russia. Therefore, Ivan Galavatyi National Security supports the Lukashenka regime. He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as the First Deputy Director of Nedra Nezhin, a company reported

DOB: 15.6.1976 to be a successor to Slavkali, a major potash producer in Belarus.

POB: Pogost Settlement, The employees of OJSC “Belaruskali” who took part in strikes and peaceful Soligorsk District, Minsk protests in the aftermath of the fraudulent presidential elections of August Province, Belarus 2020 in Belarus, were deprived of premiums and laid off. Alexander

Gender: male Lukashenka himself personally threatened to replace the strikers with miners from Ukraine. Therefore, as the head of Belaruskali, Ivan Galavatyi

Nationality: Belarusian is responsible for the repression of civil society.

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196. Aliaksandr Аляксандр Уладзiмiравiч Position(s): Former head of the In his position as former head of Penal Colony IK-17 in Shklov, Aliaksandr 3.8.2023 Uladzimirovich КАРНIЕНКА Penal Colony IK-17 Shklov, Karnienka was responsible for the inhuman and degrading treatment, KARNIENKA Lieutenant Colonel of the including torture, inflicted on the political prisoners and other citizens Александр Владимирович Internal Service detained in that penal colony in the wake of the 2020 presidential election Alexander Vladimirovich КОРНИЕНКО and the ensuing peaceful protests. He was the head of the penal colony at KORNIENKO District Inspector, Department the time of the death of the political prisoner Vitold Ashurak in that penal of Internal Affairs of the Slutsk colony on 21 May 2021, in unexplained circumstances.

District Executive Committee He is therefore responsible for serious violations of human rights and the

DOB: 9.1.1979 repression of civil society in Belarus.

Gender: male He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as an official of the Slutsk

Nationality: Belarusian District Executive Committee.

258. Viktar Arkadzievich Вiктар Аркадзьевiч Position(s): Businessman, Viktar Shautsou is a businessman with business interests in Belarus. 5.8.2024 SHAUTSOU ШАЎЦОЎ investor In his role as honorary consul of the Philippines in Belarus, he is Viktor Arkadievich Виктор Аркадьевич DOB: 5.12.1963 supporting the Lukashenka regime. Furthermore, he is benefitting from CHEVTSOV/ SHEVTSOV ШЕВЦОВ the regime, through his involvement in Reshenie Bank, which in turn has

POB: Razumava village, Vitebsk interests in and is involved in the Dudutki museum complex, which is region, Belarus benefitting from the Belarussian state budget.

Nationality: Belarusian Therefore, Viktar Shautsou is supporting and benefitting from the

Gender: male Lukashenka regime.

Passport number: MP4572331, issued on 12.2.2021

Personal ID: 3051263A036PB7

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260. Anton Genadzevich Антон Генадзевіч Position(s):Former judge of the Anton Dudal was a judge who served in the court of the Bobruisk district 5.8.2024 DUDAL ДУДАЛЬ court of the Bobruisk region and the city of Bobruisk. He was appointed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka in and the city of Bobruisk, 2019. He has issued politically motivated sentences, including against Anton Gennadievich Антон Геннадьевич Chairman of the Kirovsky citizens of Belarus who voiced their opinions against the President. He DUDAL ДУДАЛЬ District Court sentenced a citizen for acting in self-defence against law-enforcement brutality. He transferred Andrey Sachevko to prison in Mahiliou.

Nationality: Belarusian Anton Dudal is therefore responsible for the repression of civil society and

DOB: 11.8.1986 democratic opposition.

Gender: male He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as the Chairman of Kirovsky

Personal ID: 3110886M079PB3 District Court.

261. Mikalai Vasilievich Мікалай Васільевіч Position(s): Former judge of the Mikalai Siarheevich was a Belarusian judge who served in the Zhlobinsky 5.8.2024’;

SIARHEEVICH СЯРГЕЕВIЧ Zhlobinsky District Court of the District Court of the Gomel Region He was appointed by Aliaksandr Gomel Region, Chairman of the Lukashenka. He has issued politically motivated sentences against citizens Nikolai Vasilievich Николай Васильевич Chechersky District Court of Belarus who voiced their opinions against the fraudulent presidential SERGEEVICH СЕРГЕЕВИЧ elections of 2020, including participants in the Zhlobin protests.

Nationality: Belarusian Mikalai Siarheevich is therefore responsible for the repression of civil

DOB: 22.8.1983 society and democratic opposition.

Gender: male He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as the Chairman of

Personal ID: 3220883H026PB7 Chechersky District Court.

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25.2.2025(2) in Table ‘B. Legal persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 2(1)’, entries 13 and 27 are replaced by the following:

Names (Transliteration of Belarusian spelling) Names (Belarusian spelling) Identifying information Reasons for listing Date of listing (Transliteration of Russian (Russian spelling) spelling) ‘13. Minskii Avtomobilnyi ААТ “Мiнскi аўтамабiльны Address: Socialisticheskaya 2, OJSC Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) is one of the biggest state-owned 21.06.2021 Zavod (MAZ) / OJSC завод” 220021 Minsk, Belarus automotive manufacturers in Belarus. Lukashenka described it as “one of “MAZ” the most important industrial enterprises of the country”. It is a source of ОАО “Минский Website: http://maz.by/ revenue for the Lukashenka regime. OJSC MAZ has offered its premises Open Joint Stock Company автомобильный завод”

Date of registration: 16.7.1944 and equipment to stage a political rally in support of the regime. “Minsk Automobile Furthermore, in the light of the involvement of Belarus in the Russian war Works” – Management Tel. + 375 (17) 217-22-22; + of aggression against Ukraine, MAZ delivers military trucks to the Russian Company of 8000 217-22-22 Army, which are also deployed in the Ukrainian territory for military “BELAVTOMAZ” Holding actions. Therefore, OJSC MAZ benefits from and supports the Lukashenka regime.

Employees of OJSC MAZ who took part in strikes and peaceful protests in the aftermath of fraudulent elections of August 2020 in Belarus were intimidated and later laid off by the company’s management. A group of employees was locked indoors by OJSC MAZ to prevent them from joining the other protesters. Therefore, OJSC MAZ is responsible for the repression of civil society and supports the Lukashenka regime.

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27. Open Joint Stock Company AAT “Белшина” Address: 4 Minskoe Shosse St., OJSC Belshina is one of the leading state-owned companies in Belarus and 2.12.2021’. “Belshina” 213824 Bobruisk, Belarus a large manufacturer of vehicle tyres. In the years 2022 and 2023 it had ОАО “Белшина” a profitability of 9 %, as confirmed by the Belarusian deputy prime

Date of registration: 10.1.1994 minister Petr Parkhomczyk. The Belarusian State is directly profiting from

Registration number: the earnings made by Belshina. Furthermore, Belshina is supplying tires to 700016217 the Russian military deployed in Ukraine, supporting the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Therefore, Belshina is

Website: http://www.belshinajsc. supporting the Lukashenka regime. by/ Employees of Belshina who protested and went on strike in the wake of the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus were dismissed and forced to resign, under the pretence of absenteeism. Additionally, political prisoners are forced by the State to perform hazardous labour for the benefit of Belshina. Moreover, Belshina receives state aid in the form of payment of debts and deferment in the payment of import VAT. Furthermore, state bodies are allowed by the Belarusian government to purchase Belshina products without a tender. Belshina is therefore benefitting from the Lukashenka regime and it is responsible for the repression of civil society.

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