Having focused on the enforcement of sanctions by Australia and Ukraine in the past weeks, we now turn our attention to the sanctions enforcement trends in Switzerland. What are the recent sanctions enforcement trends in Switzerland? The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (“SECO”) is responsible for the enforcement of violations under the Federal Act on the Implementation of International Sanctions (“Embargo Act”; accessible here) and thus also for violations under the Ordinance on Measures in connection…
On 25 January 2023, Switzerland implemented the EU’s 9th sanctions package adopted on 16 December 2022, and is now again by and large in alignment with EU sanctions against Russia. Switzerland thereby also introduced new measures, consisting, among others, of the following: Extension of the scope of prohibitions: The sale, transport and transit of petroleum products of customs tariff number 2710 obtained from crude oil from or originating in the Russian Federation imported into Bulgaria…
In the last month of 2022, Switzerland implemented further EU sanctions measures against the Russian Federation. In summary, Switzerland adopted the following amendments: On 8 December 2022, the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) amended Annexes 7, 8, 18, and 28 of the Ordinance on Measures connected with the Situation in Ukraine (the “Ordinance“).On 16 December 2022, the Federal Council amended the measures on trade, brokering and transport of crude oil and…
On 23 November 2022, the Federal Council adopted the substantive measures within the eighth EU sanctions package, revising the Ordinance on Measures connected with the Situation in Ukraine (the “Ordinance“) accordingly. The revised Ordinance entered into force on 23 November 2022 at 18:00 CEST. This follows the implementation of additional designated parties to Annex 8 of the Ordinance in accordance with the EU designations on 12 October 2022 and subsequently 1 November 2022, whereby one…