EU sanctions on Burma/Myanmar were first imposed in 1990, and reaffirmed in Common Position 96/635/CFSP of October 1996. Current EU sanctions on Burma/Myanmar are found in Council Regulation (EU) No 401/2013 & Council Decision 2013/184/CFSP.
The UK adopted The Myanmar (Sanctions) Regulations 2021 which came into force on 1 January 2021.
Singapore has fined Hydronav Services (Singapore) Pte Ltd $1,133,412.25 for violations of Singapore’s export controls, section 5 of the Strategic Goods (Control) Act 2002 (press release). Hydronav procured a multibeam echosounder system from a company in Norway after falsely informing the Norwegian authorities that the goods were being exported to Indonesia. Hydronav then exported the system to Myanmar without the …
OFAC, yesterday, expanded US Burma sanctions to cover any foreign individual or entity that operates in the jet fuel sector of the Burmese economy (determination, notice, press release) in response to the Burmese government’s alleged use of jet and helicopter attacks on civilians. 2 FAQs were issued: FAQ 1132 – explaining that the determination does not automatically impose sanctions on …
The candidate countries North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the EFTA countries Liechtenstein and Norway have aligned themselves with the EU’s designation of Taliban ministers, Russian facial recognition companies, and penitentiary officers linked to Alexi Navalny’s imprisonment (press release, press release, previous post). The candidate countries North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and …
On 21 June 2023, OFAC designated Myanma Foreign Trade Bank and Myanma Investment and Commercial Bank (previous post). A general licence was issued at the same time, allowing entities to engage in transactions with the 2 banks for the purposes of winding down. On 5 August 2023, the general licence expired (press release). Therefore, transactions with the 2 banks must now be …
Yesterday, Switzerland designated 6 individuals and 1 entity under its Burma/Myanmar sanctions regime (notice) following the same designations made by the EU last month (previous post). Also designated was Fereydoun Mohammadi Saghaei under Switzerland’s Syria regime (notice), partially following the EU’s Iran designations last month (previous post).
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Burma / Myanmar
Russia
Iran
Afghanistan
Syria