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Decision 2014/145/CFSP and Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 are the EU's standing individual-sanctions regime (asset freeze, ban on making funds or economic resources available, travel restrictions) for persons and entities responsible for undermining Ukraine's territorial integrity. Article 6 of the Decision sets an expiry date that had been rolled forward every six months; the previous full renewal was Decision (CFSP) 2026/696 (14 March 2026), and Decision (CFSP) 2026/2103 bridged by seven days to 22 September 2026 after France and Slovakia demanded the delisting of Fridman and Usmanov.
The 22 September package resolves that dispute: the review left Usmanov, Fridman, Falaleev and Redbird Corporate Services Ltd off the list (not renewed), removed three deceased persons (Yuri Nikolaevich Shvytkin, Ali Reza Tangsiri, Alexander Georgievich Leonov), and refreshed the statements of reasons for 104 individuals and 71 entities (Russian officials and commanders, oligarchs, Belarusian officials and Iranian military personnel, citing support for the Russian military, deportation of Ukrainian children, propaganda and sham referenda). The Council press release states no change to the listing criteria.
twice-yearly unanimity cliff for this regime, so a single member-state veto no longer threatens lapse until 2029 (register-state note: other EU Russia regimes keep their own renewal cycles).
those individuals under this regime is removed, but other regimes and non-EU sanctions are unaffected.