UK

UK Guidance

General

• Collection of financial sanctions targets by regime
• OFSI: Financial Sanctions: Guidance (January 2020)
• HM Treasury Guidance on sanctions regimes in case of no-deal Brexit
• OFSI Guidance on making a sanctions challenge – how to seek a variation or revocation of a sanctions designation, 2020.
• Collection: Prepare to export goods from the UK to the EU from 1 January 2021
• Guidance on export licences and certificates from 1 January 2021
• Guidance on protection of trading interests (retained blocking regulation) from 1 January 2021
• OFSI blog post on preparing for the end of the transition period (December 2020)
• Bridging Document Guidance, OFSI (December 2020)
• Licensing Application Page (January 2021)
• OFSI Maritime Guidance, 2020.
• UK Finance Sanctions Statutory Instruments Review, 2020

Regime Specific Guidance

• Prohibitions on interception and monitoring items and services in Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Technical Guidance
• Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance 
• Burma (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance 
• ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• The Democratic Republic of Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance on finance and investment 
• The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• The Cyber (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Lebanon (Sanctions) (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Nicaragua (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Yemen (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (No.2) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Syria (United Nations Sanctions) (Cultural Property) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Misappropriation (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020:
  • Guidance
  • Policy Paper on how the UK makes human rights designations
  • Information Note for NGOs and Civil Society
  • Impact Assessment
  • Press Release, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab’s statement and Parliamentary Debate

De-listing 

• The Sanctions Review Procedure (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (SI 2018/1269)
• Guidance on how to request variation or revocation of a sanctions designation or review of a UN listing
• Sanctions Challenge Form
• Guidance on how to request a review of the designation or specification of a ship