Recently the UK announced that it will suspend all existing export licences for dual-use items to Russia along with the approval of any new export licences for the same purpose. Following this announcement the UK Export Control Joint Unit has removed Russia as a permitted destination from the following open general export licences: open general export licence Xopen general export licence X from December 2019open general export licence chemicalsopen general export licence chemicals from December-2019open…
On February 24, 2022, each of the three Belgian Regions (the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels Regions) announced that all export licenses issued by their services with Russia as destination country or country of end-use will be temporarily suspended. The suspension will be evaluated on a day-to-day basis. The Flemish Strategic Goods Control Unit, which is responsible for issuing licenses for the export of military and dual-use items in the Flemish Region, indicated that for transactions…
On February 21, 2022, the White House issued a new Executive Order that imposes comprehensive sanctions on the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”) and Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”) regions of Ukraine. Concurrently with the issuance of the Executive Order, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published six general licenses (“GLs”) authorizing certain transactions involving the targeted regions. These sanctions were imposed in response to the Russian Government’s decision to recognize the…
The Department for International Trade and the Export Control Joint Unit published a notice to exporters on 10 January 2022 regarding compound penalties imposed on ten UK exporters for unlicensed exports of dual use and military items and breaches of export licence conditions between March and November 2021. The compound penalties imposed by HM Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”) ranged between £1,000 and £54,000 and related to unlicensed exports of dual use goods, military goods and…