Following the US President’s signing into law of the “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” (“CAATSA”) (as discussed in our blog post here), the European Commission has released an official statement in response. In the statement, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker notes that “a significant proportion of the intended sanctions against Russia have been dropped”, and welcomes the fact that “US Congress has now also committed to only apply sanctions after the country’s allies are consulted.”…
The UK Government has published its response to its earlier public consultation on the UK’s future legal framework for imposing and implementing sanctions. The consultation, which ran between April and June 2017, sought views on the legal powers which the UK would need to be able to impose and implement sanctions after Brexit.
The EU has published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1374 (the “Implementing Regulation”), re-imposing asset freeze measures on Arkady Rotenberg under the EU’s sanctions targeting parties thought to be involved in undermining or threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine in Regulation (EU) 269/2014 (the “Regulation”). Mr Rotenberg’s original listing was removed in November 2016, after the General Court found the reasons for listing were unlawful. This was because the EU had failed to demonstrate Mr Rotenberg’s association…
On 26 July 2017, the Export Control Organisation published a new open general export licence (OGEL) to allow the export or transfer of military goods, software or technology from the United Kingdom to Turkey. The products permitted for export under the license are for exclusive use in the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) TF-X programme, a joint-venture between the TAI and Britain’s BAE Systems. Under the OGEL, exports may be permitted for either: the design, development,…