This Practice Note contains guidance on assessing the risk of your organisation causing or contributing to an adverse human rights impact. Human rights due diligence and...
This Practice Note provides a high-level overview of the nature and importance of competition law and outlines the steps you can take to help identify and mitigate...
Why you need to manage this risk Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (and the UK national equivalent, Chapter II of the Competition Act...
Why you need to manage this risk Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) (and its UK national equivalent—Chapter I of the Competition...
Defining corporate social responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR), also known as corporate responsibility or corporate citizenship is a business management...
Forthcoming changes:The UK has voted to leave the EU and this will take place on exit day as defined in section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. This...
This Practice Note explains the process of the designation of sanctions targets by the UN, EU and in the UK under the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc Act 2010 (TAFA 2010)....
Scope of this timeline There are different sanctions regimes which affect UK businesses. Usually they are grouped into trade and financial sanctions: • trade sanctions...
The complex nature of watch list screening creates challenges and presents risks. This Practice Note summarises the challenges watch list screening can present and the...
What are export controls? Export controls are laws that require the licensing of the export, brokering or transhipment of sensitive goods, components, software,...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has provided some examples of good practice for sanctions systems and controls in Part 7 in its guide, FCG Financial Crime Guide: A...
Forthcoming changes: The UK has voted to leave the EU and this will take place on exit day as defined in section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. This...
The UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) require businesses to respect ‘internationally recognised human rights’. This Practice Note sets out a...
Country Regulatory bodySanction List(Links to sanctions lists are provided, where publicly available)Including MultinationalUnited NationsUnited NationsPersons and...
This Practice Note describes the current position on licences and exemptions in financial sanctions in the UK. The UK is currently an EU Member State. The UK has...
UNDER REVIEW: The Sanctions and Anti-money Laundering Act 2018 received Royal Assent on 23 May 2018. It introduces a new framework for the implementation and enforcement...