On 17 July 2025, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (“OFSI”) launched a series of new online forms for parties looking to submit licence applications or report information such as suspected breaches of financial sanctions.  The new forms aim to streamline the submission process and to avoid incomplete or incorrect submissions through the introduction of mandatory fields and built-in guidance notes, thereby reducing the need for follow-up questions and enabling OFSI to provide…
On 24 April 2025, the UK government published the Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, which took effect on 25 April 2025 (“Amending Regulations”). These new regulations amend the Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 to partially suspend a number of significant sanctions that have been in place for over a decade to reflect the developments to the political situation in Syria following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. The UK…
On 23 April 2025, the UK government published the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, which took effect on 24 April 2025. These new regulations amended the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 to introduce additional trade restrictions, focusing on export and import prohibitions, technology, and software transfers. We have set out summaries of the key new measures below. Sectoral Software The amending regulations introduce prohibitions on making available and transferring “sectoral software” to…
As risks and complexities for sanctions investigations have grown, so has the number of regulators and enforcement agencies bringing enforcement actions, and not just in the United States. Enforcement agencies around the world are becoming more active, with a focus on enforcing sanctions and export controls targeting Russia since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. There has been a particular uptick in public enforcement of EU sanctions targeting Russia by various EU Member States in…