On 4 March 2024, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (“FCDO”) published a Post-Legislative Scrutiny Memorandum (the “Memorandum”) for the UK Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (“SAMLA”). The Memorandum (available here) provides an assessment of the functioning of SAMLA and UK sanctions regimes underpinned by SAMLA, following the UK’s introduction of an autonomous sanctions framework post-Brexit. The Memorandum covers a broad range of areas relating to SAMLA and the UK’s sanctions framework, including…
The UK, France and Germany (the European signatories to the Joint Collective Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, referred to as the “E3”) have decided to retain certain sanctions previously imposed upon Iran. The press release published by the E3 announcing this decision is available here. The JCPOA was agreed in 2015 between the E3/EU+3 (China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the EU’s…