On 3 July 2019, Baker McKenzie held its latest webinar looking at the impact of the United States’ withdrawal from the JCPoA, titled “What happens if the JCPoA collapses?”. In the webinar, Baker McKenzie experts from London, Dusseldorf and Washington provided a recap of the current position, before going on to ask how UN and EU sanctions on Iran could be re-imposed and what this would mean in practice. The slides for the session can…
The EU Council has revoked the framework for restrictive measures against the Maldives that it adopted on 16 July 2018. Following a deterioration of the political situation in the Maldives in the first half of 2018, the framework allowed for the imposition of a travel ban and an asset freeze on persons and entities responsible for undermining the rule of law or obstructing an inclusive political solution in the Maldives, as well as persons and…
The EU Council has announced its intention to modernise the current EU regime “for the control of exports, transfer, brokering, technical assistance and transit of dual-use items”. Objective of the mandate The purpose of the mandate is to reinforce the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, security, stability and regional peace in addition to the respect for international humanitarian law and human rights. Proposed changes A number of amendments will…
The UK Parliament has approved the draft Protection against the Effects of the Extraterritorial Application of Third Country Legislation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 which will transpose the EU blocking statute into UK domestic law in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The EU Blocking Regulation aims to offset the unlawful effects of third country extra-territorial sanctions on EU operators. The new UK Regulations are particularly relevant following the EU’s response to the re-imposed US…