The Council assessed that, in order to encourage an inclusive transition in Syria and to support humanitarian aid delivery, economic recovery, reconstruction and stabilisation, as well as facilitating the return of Syrian nationals to Syria along with their belongings, it is appropriate to suspend a number of sectoral and individual measures, introduce certain exemptions, as well as to remove the expiry date of the current humanitarian exemption from asset freeze measures. To this end, on 24 February 2025 the Council issued Council Regulation (EU) 2025/407.
In Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/408, the Council considered that six entities should be removed from the list of natural and legal persons, entities or bodies subject to the freezing of funds and economic resources. The assets of one of those entities should remain frozen.