Current EU and UK Belarus sanctions regimes comprise arms embargoes, targeted asset freezes and travel bans, and sectoral sanctions. Current EU legislation: Council Regulation (EU) No 765/2006 & Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP. Current UK legislation: Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
The US has extended its Ethiopia and terrorism sanctions regimes for a further year (notice, notice, notice). Australia has extended the 35% import tariff on goods imported from Russia and Belarus for a further 2 years until October 2025 (press release).
In Cases T-97/21 and T-215/22 Synesis v Council and Cases T-523/21 and T-216/22 Shatrov v Council, the General Court of the EU rejected the applications to annul the Belarus sanctions designations of Synesis and Alexander Shatrov. The UK High Court rejected Synesis’ challenge to its UK sanctions listing in March 2023 (see previous post). Synesis and Mr Shatrov were listed …
Yesterday, the EU General Court rejected Mikail Gutseriev’s de-listing application (he was listed by the EU in June 2021, previous post). The judgment is here and on the EU Judgments section of this site. The 5th Chamber of the General Court held that the EU Council made no errors in: interpreting the listing criterion support for / benefit from the …
The FCDO have updated the UK statement of reasons for listing for Belarus company, Dana Holdings aka Dana Astra (notice): removing reference to the Karic brothers and alleged association with President Lukashenko; removing the statement that “Dana Astra publicly supported Lukashenko in the face of strikes and protests”; and referring to sponsorship of the Belarusian National Olympic Committee. See in …
On 30 August 2023, Switzerland adopted the EU’s latest Belarus designations of penitentiary officials, judges, prosecutors, criminal investigators, TV presenters, and state-controlled entities (notice, previous post). Switzerland decided not to adopt the EU designations of members of the Russian judiciary and penitentiary officers allegedly connected with the Navalny and Kara-Murza cases. The Swiss Federal Council based their decision on “various …
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