UK

UK Guidance

General

• Collection of financial sanctions targets by regime
• OFSI Financial Sanctions: Guidance (December 2020)
• OFSI Guidance on monetary penalties for breaches of financial sanctions (December 2020) and updated version in force from 1 April 2021
• 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
• OFSI Guidance for import and export sector (December 2020)
• Guidance on protection of trading interests (retained blocking regulation) from 1 January 2021 (November 2020)
• 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 (December 2020)
• OFSI Charity Sector guidance (December 2020)
• UK Finance Sanctions Statutory Instruments Review (February 2021)

Regime Specific Guidance

Afghanistan

• Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Belarus

• Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Bosnia and Herzegovina 

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Burundi

• Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Central African Republic

• Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Chemical Weapons

• The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Cyber-Attacks

• The Cyber (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Democratic Republic of Congo

• The Democratic Republic of Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Global Human Rights Sanctions

• 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

Republic of Guinea

• The Guinea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Republic of Guinea-Bissau

• The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Iran (human rights)

• Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Interception and monitoring prohibitions in sanctions: technical guidance

Iran (nuclear proliferation)

• Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Iraq

• Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Lebanon 

• Lebanon (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
• Lebanon (Sanctions) (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Libya

• Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Financial sanctions guidance

Mali

• Mali (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Misappropriation sanctions

• Misappropriation (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Myanmar (Burma)

• Burma (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance 

Nicaragua 

• Nicaragua (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

North Korea

• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Russia

• Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance on finance and investment 

Somalia

• Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

South Sudan

• South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Sudan 

• Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Syria

• Prohibitions on interception and monitoring items and services in Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Technical Guidance
• Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance 
• Syria (United Nations Sanctions) (Cultural Property) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Terrorism and Terrorist Financing Sanctions

• Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

Turkey

• Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Venezuela

• Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
• Interception and monitoring prohibitions in sanctions: technical guidance

Yemen 

• Yemen (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (No.2) Regulations 2020: Guidance

Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance

 

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