Sanctions are a key foreign policy and national security tool used by governments and international organisations to influence behaviour, restrict access to funds, goods and services and respond to threats to international peace and security.
Sanctions regimes may be imposed by the UN, the UK, the EU, the US and other jurisdictions and commonly target countries, organisations, entities and individuals associated with particular activities or objectives.
Sanctions measures impose prohibitions and requirements on the targets directly (known as ‘designated persons’), but also on third parties who trade or otherwise deal with them.
Sanctions regimes affecting UK businesses or persons may be imposed to bring about a change in policy or activity by the target country, government, entities or individuals. They are reviewed, lifted, revoked or adapted in the light of changes in the behaviour of the target. Sanctions may be imposed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the Council of the EU under its Council Common Foreign and Security Policy, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the UK government or other jurisdictions. Other countries impose their own sanctions regimes
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