Following the 2025 strategic assessment, the council also adopted amendments to the mandate of EUNAVFOR Atalanta, the EU’s long-standing maritime operation in the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
The updated mandate: suspends the monitoring of illicit charcoal trade, while maintaining secondary tasks on monitoring arms and narcotics trafficking and illegal fishing; strengthens links with other EU initiatives, including CRIMARIO; and adds a new task to collect and share information on suspicious activities related to CSI, within available means and capabilities.