Recital 17

(17) Decision (CFSP) 2025/394 specifically limits the application of an exemption to the flight ban on manned aircraft by introducing the need for an authorisation by the competent authorities to allow the landing in, taking off from and overflying the territory of the Union for certain drone operations. In order to increase the cost on Russia of its continuing war of aggression against Ukraine, and to ensure the effectiveness of Union restrictive measures which target the aviation sector by addressing the risk of their frustration, Decision (CFSP) 2025/394 also extends the flight ban to listed air carriers operating domestic flights within Russia or selling, supplying, transferring or exporting, directly or indirectly, aircraft or other aviation goods and technology to a Russian air carrier or for flights within Russia, as well as to any entity owned or controlled by such air carrier.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-15 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.