Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2226 of 29 October 2025 amending for the 351st time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations [^ntr1-L_202502226EN.000101-E0001], and in particular Article 7(1), point (a), and Article 7a(5) thereof,

Whereas:

• (1) Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation.

• (2) On 16 October 2025, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council established pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutions 1267(1999), 1989(2011) and 2253(2015) decided to amend one entry in the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.

• (3) Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 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, 29 October 2025.

For the Commission

On behalf of the President

Director-General

Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

[^ntr1-L_202502226EN.000101-E0001]: OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2002/881/oj.

ANNEX

The identifying data for the following entries under the heading ‘Natural persons’ in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended as follows:

‘Abu Mohammed Al-Jawlani (original script: أبو محمد الجولاني) (Good quality alias (a) Abu Mohamed al-Jawlani, (b) Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, (c) Abu Mohammed al-Julani, (d) Abu Mohammed al-Golani, (e) Abu Muhammad al-Golani, (f) Abu Muhammad Aljawlani, (g) Muhammad al-Jawlani, (h) Amjad Muzaffar Hussein Ali al-Naimi; Low quality alias (a) شيخ الفاتح ، الفاتح، (b) Shaykh al-Fatih, (c) Al Fatih, (d) Abu Ashraf). Date of birth: (a) Between 1975 and 1979; (b) 1980. Place of birth: Syria. Nationality: Syrian. Address: (a) Mosul, Souq al-Nabi Yunis; (b) In Syria as of June 2013. Other information: Mother's name: Fatma Ali Majour. Description: Dark complexion. Height: 1.70 m. Photo available for inclusion in the INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2), point (i): 24.7.2013.’

is replaced by the following:

‘Ahmad Hussain Al-Sharaa (original script: احمد حسین الشرع) (good quality alias: (a) Abu Mohamed al-Jawlani (original script: أبو محمد الجولاني), (b) Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, (c) Abu Mohammed al-Julani, (d) Abu Mohammed al-Golani, (e) Abu Muhammad al-Golani, (f) Abu Muhammad Aljawlani, (g) Muhammad al-Jawlani (formerly listed as), (h) Amjad Muzaffar Hussein Ali al-Naimi (born 1980 in Syrian Arab Republic, Mother’s name: Fatma Ali Majour. Address: Mosul, Souq al-Nabi Yunis); low quality alias: (a) شيخ الفاتح، الفاتح, (transliterations: (a) Shaykh al-Fatih, (b) Al Fatih; (translation: The Conqueror) (Nom de guerre), (b) Abu Ashraf). Date of birth: (a) 29.10.1982; (b) 1980. Place of birth: Syria. Nationality: Syrian. Address: (a) Mosul, Souq al-Nabi Yunis; (b) Active in Syria as of January 2025. Passport No: D00000256 (Syrian passport issued on 1.2.2025. Other information: (a) Mother's name: (a) Fatma Ali Majour, (b) Wedad; (b) Father’s name: Hussein. (c) Since January 2012, he is the Leader of Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, a Syria-based group; (d) Associated with Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri; (e) Wanted by the Iraqi security forces; (f) Description: Dark complexion. Height: 1.70 m. Photo available for inclusion in the INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2), point (i): 24.7.2013.’

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2226/oj

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