? Rusak Trade Compliance News reports:
▶️ On June 29, 2024, the EU Council adopted new sanctions on Belarus, covering economy, trade, services, and transport. These sanctions are in response to the involvement of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The introduction of the new package also aims to prevent the circumvention of previous sanctions imposed on Russia.
▶️ Key provisions of the Belarus sanctions:
1️⃣ Export ban on dual-use technologies and other goods that could enhance Belarus’s industrial capabilities.
2️⃣ Import ban on marine navigation components, diamonds, gold, coal, and crude oil, as well as technologies for oil refining and gas liquefaction.
3️⃣ Prohibition on providing services such as IT, auditing, consultancy, PR, architectural, engineering, legal, advertising, market research, and public opinion research to Belarus.
4️⃣ Ban on road transport of goods from Belarus to the EU using Belarusian trailers and trucks, and non-recognition of transport companies with Belarusian ownership as EU entities.
5️⃣ Prevention of sanctions evasion through provisions prohibiting the re-export of sensitive goods to Belarus and transit of weapons through its territory, as well as products and technologies that could contribute to Belarus’s military, technological, or industrial enhancement.
▶️ The new sanctions package proposed by the European Commission in January 2023 faced delays due to issues related to fertilizer imports from Belarus. Ultimately adopted on Saturday, the package reflects pressures, including from Poland, for alignment of sanctions on Belarus with those imposed on Russia.
Source:
? Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/1843 of June 28, 2024
? Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1842 of June 28, 2024
