Guidance

Financial sanctions, Chemical Weapons

Financial sanctions are in place for persons, entities or bodies involved in the proliferation and use of chemical weapons. This page contains the current list of designated targets.

Published 17 October 2018
Last updated 21 January 2019 — see all updates
From:
HM Treasury and Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

Documents

Details

Sanctions

The Chemical Weapons regime implements sanctions imposed by the EU. You can view Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1542 on restrictive measure in place here

Implementation date

These sanctions were introduced on 15 October 2018.

Context

Sanctions are imposed against those who are responsible for manufacturing, using or engaging in preparations to use chemical weapons. This also extends to those who assist or encourage such activities.

EU regulations

You can view Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1542 on restrictive measures for the chemical weapons regime here.

You can find the most recent amendments to the Regulation by searching on EUR-Lex:

  1. enter the Regulation number into the search bar
  2. open the relevant page and
  3. click ‘document information’

UK regulations

The Chemical Weapons (Asset-Freezing) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018

Published 17 October 2018
Last updated 21 January 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated with 'Latest HM Treasury notice, 21/01/2019, Chemical Weapons (Reg 2019/84)'.
  2. Updated with UK regulations.
  3. First published.

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