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The Council of the EU adopted Decision dated 07.12.2020 (CFSP) No. 2020/1999
and Regulation dated 07.12.2020 (EU) No. 2020/1998
(hereinafter - the Decision, Regulation), which establish the
general regime of action of restrictive measures taken in
connection with material violations human rights.
Briefly about the unilateral EU sanctions themselves
These are restrictive measures taken unilaterally by Decision of
the EU Council in the presence of an alleged violation of the norms
and principles (standards) of international law, including those
provided for in Art. 21 of the EU Treaty (for example, violation of
UK sanctions after Brexit: what has changed?
From 11pm on 31 December 2020, EU sanctions ceased to apply in the UK. The UK’s sanctions framework is now regulated principally by the Sanctions and Anti-Monetary Laundering Act 2018 (the ‘Sanctions Act’).
Under the Sanctions Act, UK ministers can make regulations to implement UN sanctions and/or to impose sanctions for various defined purposes, such as the protection of international peace and security and the furtherance of the UK government’s foreign policy objectives.
Has anything changed?
Various statutory instruments have already been created under the Sanctions Act, many of which took effect at the end of the Brexit transition period. To date, the instruments predominantly implement UN sanctions into UK law and /or mirror existing EU sanctions. However, whilst there may be continuity in the policy objectives of such legislation, not all of the UK regulations are identically worded and some are more detailed than their E