Primary instrument, European Union regulation, consolidated
Hierarchy tier
1
Published
2025
Accessed
2026-08-17
Snapshot
Retrieved 17 August 2026 from the Publications Office Cellar, HTTP 200, 1,879,728 and 1,702,450 bytes. NINE consolidation dates were tried and two resolved; the rest returned 404, which is how consolidated CELEX works and not a failure
Claims
CH6 the wording of the deleted articles as they stood immediately before deletion
Status
READ_IN_PART
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
READ 17 August 2026 AT ARTICLE 25 AND ARTICLE 25a OF THE 26 FEBRUARY 2025 TEXT; the rest of both consolidations is unread. THIS LIFTS THE CAUTION CARRIED AT SRC-183, which was that only the ORIGINAL 2012 wording was held, so the subject matter of the deleted articles was safe and their final wording was not. The 26 February 2025 consolidation is the version in force immediately before the May deletions, and the 29 May 2025 consolidation shows what survived. ARTICLE 25 STOOD AS IT WAS ENACTED, prohibiting EU credit and financial institutions from opening a new bank account with, or ESTABLISHING A NEW CORRESPONDENT BANKING RELATIONSHIP WITH, any Syrian credit or financial institution, opening a new representative office, branch or subsidiary in Syria, or forming a new joint venture; and prohibiting the reciprocal presence in the Union, agreements to that effect, authorisations for representative offices, branches or subsidiaries not operational before 19 January 2012, and the acquisition or extension of a participation in an EU institution by a Syrian one. AND ARTICLE 25a CHANGES THE STORY THE CHAPTER WOULD OTHERWISE TELL. Inserted before this consolidation, it provides that the prohibitions in Article 25 SHALL NOT APPLY where the activities are performed for the purpose of providing assistance to the Syrian population as regards the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance or support for basic human needs, basic services or other civilian purposes; NOR where they are performed for the purpose of assistance as regards RECONSTRUCTION, STABILISATION, RESTORING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, INSTITUTION-BUILDING, the provision of basic services or other civilian purposes; nor in connection with the import, purchase or transport of Syrian crude oil and petroleum products. SO THE CORRESPONDENT BANKING PROHIBITION HAD ALREADY BEEN DISAPPLIED FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND INSTITUTION-BUILDING BY 26 FEBRUARY 2025, THREE MONTHS BEFORE IT WAS DELETED. A chapter that presents 29 May 2025 as the moment EU law stopped barring correspondent banking for reconstruction would be wrong, and the sequence is the story: carve-out first, deletion after.