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Iran sanctions update: new EU measures in force

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 4 2013

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 sanctions

EU amends Ivory Coast sanctions

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Ivory Coast
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  • January 21 2011

The EU has amended Council Regulation (EC) No 5602005 to provide for the EU to list, separately to the UN, persons obstructing the process of peace and national reconciliation, and in particular who are jeopardising the proper outcome of the electoral process in the Ivory Coast (Annex IA)(see EU 252011

Libya sanctions update

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Australia, European Union, Global, Libya, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 25 2011

This memorandum briefly updates our March 3, 2011 summary of international economic sanctions directed at the Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi

EU political update: 28 March - 2 April 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union
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  • March 28 2011

On 24 March 2011, the European Commission published a Green Paper on online gambling in the Internal Market (COM(2011) 128) (the 'Green Paper'

EU imposes more and more sanctions and restrictive measures: compliance is an absolute necessity

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • European Union, Libya
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  • March 29 2011

Following the social unrest in the Middle East and parts of Africa, the United Nations Security Council recently adopted a number of Resolutions

UK and EU sanctions against Syria

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Syria, United Kingdom
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  • September 28 2011

Since anti-government protests began in Syria in March, unrest has continued and spread across the country

Council issues Syria and Taliban sanctions.

  • Dentons
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  • European Union, Syria
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  • August 5 2011

The Council has adopted legislation imposing restrictive measures on individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with the Taliban and extending the scope of the sanctions against Syria to cover additional individuals

EU expanded sanctions against Iran and Belarus, and conclusions in relation to Libya and Syria, update on U.S. sanctions on Iran

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Belarus, European Union, Iran, Libya, Syria, USA
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  • October 12 2011

Today, the EU has added 29 persons to the list of those targeted by an asset freeze and a visa ban because of their involvement in human rights violations in Iran

United Nations, European Union, and the United States ease economic sanctions against Libya

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union, Libya, USA
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  • September 19 2011

On Friday 16 September 2011, the United Nations (UN) Security Council adopted Regulation 2009 (2011), which paves the way for further lifting of economic sanctions against Libya, most notably by removing the Libyan National Oil Corporation and Zuietina Oil Company from the sanctions list

European Union announces adoption of stricter sanctions vs. Iran

  • Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
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  • European Union, Iran
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  • January 30 2012

On January 23, 2012, the Council of the European Union agreed to impose additional restrictive measures against Iran in the range of industrial sectors, inter alia: in the energy sector, including an embargo of Iranian crude oil imports to the EU; in the financial sector, including against the Central Bank of Iran; in the transport sector; additional export restrictions on gold and on sensitive dual-use goods and technology; as well as additional designations of specific persons and entities