Council Regulation (EU) 2025/964 introduces additional measures, inter alia amending the criteria guiding individual designations in the listings freezing assets, and the prohibition from making funds and economic resources available to listed persons bodies and entities.
Those additional measures prohibit transactions with tangible assets supporting Russia-driven destabilising activities, such as vessels, aircraft, real estate, ports, airports, physical elements of digital and communication networks. Such tangible assets can include both those of a movable nature, and those of an immovable nature. The tangible assets should be adequately identifiable, in order to support the effective implementation of the prohibition.
Those additional measures also prohibit broadcasting in the Union by specifically-designated media outlets. In view of the gravity of the situation, it was necessary, to suspend the broadcasting licences in the Union of the specifically-designated media outlets, and to prohibit the broadcasting of their content in the Union, or directed at the Union. Operators subject to the broadcasting prohibition are understood broadly to include natural persons and entities acting commercially or professionally, as well as those acting for economic benefit, such as online content creators, bloggers, and web influencers deriving income from advertisement, donations, or the increase in their follower base. The prohibition on broadcasting does not prevent those media outlets or their staff from carrying out activities in the Union other than broadcasting, such as research and interviews.
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/968 amends the identifying information and the statement of reasons in the entry for one natural person in the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in the Annex.