The EU issued new sanctions against Russia on 27 May 2024 for natural or legal persons, entities or bodies responsible for serious human rights violations or abuses, for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition, and for undermining democracy and the rule of law in Russia, and on natural or legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them. 19 natural persons and 1 legal person have been added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in the Annex.

Tuesday May 14th, 2024 the EU updated her sanctions against Iran in view of Iran’s military support to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. They are now called: ‘restrictive measures in view of Iran’s military support to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and to armed groups and entities in the Middle East and the Red Sea region’ and now include a travel ban and freezing of funds and economic resources against the listed parties as well as an extension of prohibited items usable in UAVs.

Monday March 4th, 2024, president Biden issued an executive order that terminates the US sanctions against Zimbabwe.

Are you aware that the EU published sanctions against Guatemala under Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/254 accompanied by Council Regulation 287/2024 which describe the sanctions the EU installed against Guatemala. These sanctions consist of "restrictions on admission" and "freezing of funds and economic resources". Since there has no names been published yet, SanctIO determined the risk regarding Guatemala to be low, which will be raised to medium as soon as names are added by the EU.

Today, the EU published the 12th package of sanctions in relation to the invasion of Russia in the Ukraine. The following regulations have been amended:

We have informed many students of the ACSS Certified Sanctions Specialists course (https://lnkd.in/dmhP6VjD) that the EU consolidated list is not always updated in line with the publications in the official journal of the EU. You will have to make sure that you have the right entries based on the publications in the official journal or make sure your data provider does this for you. The EU has a disclaimer in place on her consolidated list, stating:

Do you know that on 13 November 2023 the EU published an update to the North Korean sanctions (in relation to Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/849 of 27 May 2016 and Council Regulation (EU) No 1509/2017 of 30 August 2017), which is based on UNSCR 1718 (2023) which was published by the UN on 29 June 2023! When you use sanctions lists for screening purposes, we advise you to not only incorporate the "Consolidated EU sanctions list", but make sure to also incorporate the UN Consolidated list, or, ask your data provider whether they deliver both and use both. That way you are up-to-date.