Guidance documents

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.

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.

Coalition statements and guidance in response to recent developments in the maritime Russian oil trade.

Guidance supporting the implementation and recognition of firewalls (frameworks removing the control of designated persons).

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

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.

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.

Commission opinion on Article 2(2) of Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 (territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine), notably on “control” and on “making funds or economic resources available”.

Commission opinion on Article 2 of Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 (territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine), notably on “control” and on services and labour as “economic resources”.