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Sanctions Update: Ukraine
Ukraine – EU imposes asset freeze on members of former government and issues a statement in relation to Russia; US introduces Executive Order permitting …
Iran sanctions: Implementation of the Geneva Agreement
In November 2013, the P5+1 reached agreement on a Joint Plan of Action (JPoA) to suspend certain sanctions in exchange for Iran rolling back aspects of …
Geneva Agreement - Temporary relaxation of Iran sanctions announced
In the early hours of 24 November, the P5+1 (the UK, US, Germany, France, Russia and China, facilitated by the EU) announced that they had reached a set …
SFO brings first Bribery Act charges
The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") had its first day in court in a Bribery Act prosecution on 24 September 2013, with three of four defendants connected …
Recent Sanctions Developments: EU relaxes certain Syrian sanctions and amends measures relating to North Korea, Iran and Tunisia; US relaxes Myanmar sanctions
The EU has recently published a new Regulation (Regulation 697/2013 of 22 July 2013 ("Regulation 697/2013")) which amends Regulation 36/2012, the key …
UK: Myanmar (Burma) sanctions are lifted
As expected, the UK Government yesterday revoked the Burma/Myanmar (Financial Restrictions) Regulations 2009. These regulations contained criminal …
New EU Directive: Reporting by Extractive Companies on Government Payments
The European Parliament and Council of Ministers have agreed the final form of the new EU rules for the disclosure, on a project by project basis, of …
EU/UK: Recent sanctions developments concerning Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Syria and Libya
Daniel Hudson, Karen Anderson Jeremy Sher and Richard Wright comment on recent developments concerning the EU sanctions regimes applying to Myanmar …
Zimbabwe: a further relaxation of the EU financial sanctions regime
In our earlier post we commented on the EU's first step towards easing its sanctions regime in relation to Zimbabwe: with effect from 21 February …
EU takes steps towards easing Zimbabwe sanctions
Susannah Cogman and Jeremy Sher comment on the EU's recent easing of the Zimbabwe sanctions regime. On 19 February 2013, the European Union ("EU") …
Iran sanctions update: New EU measures in force
On 22 December 2012, three new EU measures in relation to Iran were published in the EU Official Journal. These expand the existing suite of EU …
HMT reissues direction to cease business with Iranian banks
Daniel Hudson, Nichola Peters and Jeremy Sher comment on HM Treasury's ("HMT") decision to reissue its direction to UK financial institutions …
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