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Concerning sanctions adopted following Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine and Belarus' involvement in it.

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  • General guidelines
  • Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

List of common high priority items

A list of prohibited dual-use goods and advanced technology items used in Russian military systems found on the battlefield in Ukraine or critical to the development, production or use of those systems.

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Trade and customs
  • General guidelines
  • Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

List of economically critical goods

A list of mainly industrial goods subject to EU sanctions, for which anomalous trade flows via certain third countries to Russia have been detected.

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Trade and customs
  • General guidelines
  • Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

Guidance on due diligence

Guidance setting out general advice on risk assessment, best practices for conducting due diligence on business partners, transactions and goods, as well as a list of circumvention red flags. With focus on export-related sanctions.

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  • General guidelines
  • Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

Guidance on stopped goods

Guidance on the handling of goods which were brought into the EU in good faith before the sanctions entered into force, have not been released for free circulation and remain blocked in customs offices of the Member States.

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Trade and customs
  • General guidelines
  • Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

Guidance on firewalls

Guidance supporting the implementation and recognition of firewalls (frameworks removing the control of designated persons) in the area of trade in agricultural and food products.

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Individual financial measures
  • General guidelines
  • Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

REPO global advisory on Russian sanctions evasion

Guidance issued by the multilateral REPO Task Force, setting out certain typologies of Russian sanctions evasion tactics and recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of exposure to continued evasion. With focus on financial sanctions.

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  • Opinion
  • Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

Opinion on the scope of export ban

Commission opinion on the scope of export ban in Article 2b of Council Regulation (EU) No 692/2014 (illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol).

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Trade and customs