This week in our Sanctions Enforcement Around the World series, we bring you the view from Belgium. What are the recent sanctions enforcement trends in Belgium? Before Russia took the decision to recognise the non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine and to send troops into the region, a limited number of judicial proceedings related to violations of Union restrictive measures were reported. With the introduction of the first package of…
This week in our Sanctions Enforcement Around the World series, we bring you the view from Spain. What are the recent sanctions enforcement trends in Spain? In Spain, fines for sanctions violations are not published but sanctions enforcement actions have been the subject of reports in the press. Generally, the overall sanctions enforcement environment in Spain has not been as active as in other EU Member States. However, in the context of Russia sanctions, there…
This week in our Sanctions Enforcement Around the World series, we bring you the view from Poland, an EU member state with a dual sanctions regime. Poland enforces the EU sanctions, in addition to enforcing national sanctions that go beyond the EU sanctions. This post incorporates data on local enforcement activity, as obtained by Baker McKenzie through access to government sources. What are the recent sanctions enforcement trends in Poland? Until April 2022, Poland did…
This week in our Sanctions Enforcement Around the World series, we bring you the view from Sweden, an EU member state that is currently seeing increased sanctions enforcement activity. What are the recent sanctions enforcement trends in Sweden? In Sweden, but also in the Nordic region, the enforcement of sanctions violations has historically been rather low with a handful of criminal enforcement cases. However, during the past 12 months enforcement has been increased significantly, including…