EU designates 15 individuals and 18 entities, also expanding the legal criteria for designation

Effective from 25 July 2014, the EU has designated 15 individuals and 18 entities pursuant to Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 810/2014.  The 15 individuals and nine entities are designated for “undermining the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine“, whilst a further nine entities are designated on the basis that their “ownership has been transferred contrary to Ukrainian law“. 

For ease of reference, please find their names set out below.  For further details of the designations, please see the Annex to the Implementing Regulation via the link above.

Undermining the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine:

1. Mikhail Efimovich FRADKOV
2. Nikolai Platonovich PATRUSHEV
3. Aleksandr Vasilievich BORTNIKOV
4. Rashid Gumarovich NURGALIEV
5. Boris Vyacheslavovich GRYZLOV
6. Sergei Orestovoch BESEDA
7. Mikhail Vladimirovich DEGTYAREV
8. Ramzan Akhmadovitch KADYROV
9. Alexander Nikolayevich TKACHYOV
10. Pavel GUBAREV
11. Ekaterina GUBAREVA
12. Fedor BEREZIN
13. Valery Vladimirovich KAUROV
14. Serhii Anatoliyovych ZDRILIUK
15. Vladimir ANTYUFEYEV
16. So called ‘Lugansk People’s Republic’
17. So called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’
18. So called ‘Federal State of Novorossiya’
19. International Union of Public Associations ‘Great Don Army’
20. ‘Sobol’
21. So called ‘Lugansk Guard’
22. So called ‘Army of the Southeast’
23. So called ‘Donbass People’s Militia’
24. ‘Vostok battalion’

Entities whose ownership has been transferred contrary to Ukrainian law:

1. State ferry enterprise ‘Kerch ferry’
2. State enterprise ‘Sevastopol commercial seaport’
3. State enterprise ‘Kerch commercial sea port’
4. State enterprise Universal-Avia
5. Resort ‘Nizhnyaya Oreanda’
6. Crimean enterprise ‘Azov distillery plant’
7. State concern ‘National Association of producers “Massandra”’
8. ‘State enterprise Magarach of the national institute of wine’
9. State enterprise ‘Factory of sparkling wine Novy Svet’

Whilst at this stage there is no outright prohibition of imports into Crimea, from a practical perspective, importers are not allowed to make available (directly or indirectly) funds or economic resources, e.g., taxes/duties, to, or for the benefit of, the two ports listed above.

This The EU also expanded the legal criteria for designation pursuant to Council Regulation (EU) No 811/2014 to enable the designation going forwards of:

• individuals responsible for, actively supporting or implementing, actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, or stability or security in Ukraine or which obstruct the work of international organisations in Ukraine, and individuals or entities associated with them;
• legal persons, entities or bodies supporting, materially or financially, actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine;
• legal persons, entities or bodies in Crimea or Sevastopol whose ownership has been transferred contrary to Ukrainian law, or legal persons, entities or bodies which have benefited from such a transfer; and
• individuals and legal persons, entities or bodies who actively provide material or financial support to, or are benefiting from, Russian decision-makers responsible for the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol or the destabilisation of Eastern-Ukraine.