In addition to the new EU measures, on Thursday 8th June the UK announced additional sanctions against Belarus, which came into force on Friday 9th June. The press release announcing the restrictions is available here, and the amending legislation is here. The new restrictions are intended to restrict sources of revenue to Belarus, combat sanctions circumvention, and reduce the ability of Belarusian media organisations to spread propaganda in the UK. The key measures include: Many…
On 28 April 2022, the UK introduced The Export Control (Amendment) Order 2022, amending the Export Control Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3231), which will come into force on 19 May 2022. An additional control on military end-use will apply; however there are no amendments to the underlying dual-use regulation and the existing end-use control will continue to apply separately. The Amendment provides for the following in particular: Prohibition The export of dual-use goods, software or technology…
On March 1 and 2, 2022, the UK published four Regulations which introduce new financial, trade and shipping sanctions against Russia. New financial sanctions The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 introduce the following restrictions: Prohibition on dealing with securities or money-market instruments issued by, or providing loans/credit to a person connected with Russia (including Russian incorporated entities and residents) or the Russian Government. The aforementioned prohibitions also apply to all entities…
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…