Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 of 31 July 2014 L 229

Description

- Ban on provision of certain services (arms embargo related).
- Embargo on dual-use goods and technology, if intended for military use or for a military end-user.
- Ban on provision of certain services (dual-use goods and technology related).
- Controls on export of certain items for the oil industry (deep water, Arctic and shale oil).
- Controls on provision of certain related services.
- Restrictions on issuance of and trade in certain securities and money-market instruments.
- Prohibition to satisfy certain claims made by certain persons, entities and bodies.
*** added 23-February-2022
- Prohibition on the financing of Russia, its government and its Central Bank.
*** added 25-February-2022
- Imposing restrictive measures in various sectors, particularly defence, energy, aviation and finance.
- Restrictions on exports of certain goods and technology which might contribute to Russia’s technological enhancement of its defence and security sector.
- Restrictions on the provision of related services.
- Prohibiting the provision of public financing or financial assistance for trade with, or investment in, Russia, subject to certain exceptions.
- Prohibiting the sale, supply, transfer or export to Russia of specific goods and technologies for use in oil refining, together with restrictions on the provision of related services.
- Export ban covering goods and technology suited for use in aviation and the space industry.
- Prohibiting the provision of insurance and reinsurance and maintenance services in relation to those goods and technology.
- Prohibiting the provision of technical assistance and other related services as well as financing and financial assistance in relation to the goods and technology subject to this prohibition.
- Prohibiting the listing and provision of services in relation to shares of Russian state-owned entities on Union trading venues.
- Limiting the financial inflows from Russia to the Union by prohibiting the acceptance of deposits exceeding certain values from Russian nationals or residents, the holding of accounts of Russian clients by the Union central securities depositories as well as the selling of euro-denominated securities to Russian clients.
*** added 28-February-2022
- Prohibiting Russian air carriers, any Russian-registered aircraft, and any non-Russian-registered aircraft which is owned or chartered, or otherwise controlled by any Russian natural or legal person, entity or body from landing in, taking off from, or overflying, the territory of the Union.
- Prohibiting any transactions with the Central Bank of Russia.
*** added 01-March-2022
- Prohibiting with regard to the provision of specialised financial messaging services to certain Russian credit institutions and their Russian subsidiaries, which are relevant for the Russian financial system and which are already the subject of restrictive measures imposed by the Union or by partner countries and, subject to certain exceptions, with regard to engagement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
- Prohibiting, subject to certain exceptions, the supply of euro banknotes to Russia.
- Suspending the broadcasting activities of media outlets in the Union, or directed at the Union, which the Russian Federation has engaged in a systematic, international campaign of media manipulation and distortion of facts.
*** added 09-March-2022
- Prohibiting with regard to the export of maritime navigation goods and technology.
*** added 15-March-2022
- Prohibiting trade concerning iron and steel, as well as luxury goods.
- Prohibiting new investments in the Russian energy sector, as well as a comprehensive export restriction on equipment, technology and services for the energy industry in Russia, with the exception of the nuclear industry and the downstream sector of energy transport.
- Prohibiting all transactions with certain state-owned companies which are already subject to refinancing restrictions.
- Prohibiting the provision of credit rating services and bans access to any subscription services in relation to credit rating activities to Russian clients.
*** added 8-April-2022
- Extending the list of controlled items which might contribute to Russia’s military and technological enhancement or the development of its defence and security sector.
- Import restrictions on certain goods from Russia, in particular on coal and other solid fossil fuels.
- Export restrictions to Russia, in particular on jet fuel and other goods.
- Prohibiting the award and continued execution of public contracts and concessions with Russian nationals and entities or bodies established in Russia.
- Prohibiting the provision of support, including financing and financial assistance or any other benefit, from a Union, Euratom or Member State programme to Russian publicly owned or controlled entities.
- Extending the prohibitions on the export of euro-denominated banknotes and on the sale of euro-denominated transferrable securities to all official currencies of the Member States.
- Prohibiting road transport undertakings established in Russia to transport goods by road in the Union.
- Prohibiting access to ports to vessels registered under the flag of Russia.
- Prohibiting on being a beneficiary, acting as a trustee or in similar capacities for Russian persons and entities.
- Prohibiting providing certain services to trusts.
*** added 3-June-2022
- Suspending the broadcasting activities of media outlets under the permanent control of the Russian leadership in the Union, or directed at the Union.
- Prohibiting advertising products or services in any content produced or broadcast by the Russian media outlets under the permanent control of the Russian leadership subject to the suspension of broadcasting licences.
- Prohibiting the purchase, import or transfer into Member States, directly or indirectly, of crude oil and certain petroleum products, which originate in Russia or are exported from Russia, and on the insurance and reinsurance of maritime transport of such goods to third countries.
- Prohibiting the onward transfer, transport or re-sale of crude oil from Russia delivered into a Member State by pipeline to other Member States or to third countries.
- Prohibiting, following a transitional period of eight months, the onward transfer, transport or re-sale to other Member States of petroleum products obtained from such crude oil.
- Prohibiting the provision to Russia of accounting, auditing, bookkeeping and tax consulting services, as well as on business and management consulting and public relations services.
*** added 21-July-2022
- Prohibiting the direct or indirect import, purchase or transfer of gold, which constitutes Russia’s most significant export after energy. This prohibition applies to Russian-origin gold, exported from Russia after the entry into force of the Regulation.
- Extending the port access ban to locks in order to ensure full implementation of the measure and avoid circumvention.
*** added 06-October-2022
- Extending the list of restricted items which might contribute to the Russian Federation’s military and technological enhancement or to the development of its defence and security sector, by including in that list certain chemical substances, nerve agents and goods which have no practical use other than for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or which could be used for those purposes.
- Prohibiting the sale, supply, transfer or export of firearms, their parts and essential components and ammunition.
- Import ban on steel products that either originate in the Russian Federation or have been exported from it.
- Import restrictions on additional items that generate significant revenues for the Russian Federation. That prohibition applies to goods that originate in the Russian Federation or are exported from it and includes such items as wood pulp and paper, certain elements used in the jewellery industry such as stones and precious metals, certain machinery and chemical items, cigarettes, plastics and finished chemical products such as cosmetics.
- Export prohibition by adding new items to the list of goods which could contribute to the enhancement of Russian industrial capacities.
- Restrictions on the sale, supply, transfer or export of additional goods used in the aviation sector.
- In addition to the existing prohibitions related to the provision of services for the maritime transport of crude oil and certain petroleum products to third countries, further prohibiting the maritime transport of such goods to third countries.
- In the event that a vessel under the flag of a third country has transported Russian crude oil or petroleum products purchased at a price above the price cap, it should be prohibited to provide technical assistance, brokering services, financing or financial assistance, including insurance, related to any transport in the future by that vessel of crude oil or petroleum products.
- Prohibiting to engage in any transaction with certain Russian State-owned or controlled legal persons, entities or bodies by including a ban on Union nationals to hold any posts on the governing bodies of those legal persons, entities or bodies.
- Requiring the withdrawal of authorisations granted by Member States to the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
- Withdrawing the Union's recognition of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
- Extending the port access and lock ban in the territory of the Union to vessels certified by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
- Removing the threshold for the existing prohibition on the provision of crypto-asset wallet, account or custody services to Russian persons and residents, thereby banning the provision of such services regardless of the total value of such crypto-assets.
- Prohibiting the provision of certain services to the Russian Federation by banning the provision of architectural and engineering services as well as of IT consultancy services and legal advisory services.
*** added 16-December-2022
- Existing measures have been extended or amended.
*** added 25-February-2023
- Prohibiting the transit via the territory of Russia of dual-use goods and technology and of arms exported from the Union.
- Prohibiting on holding any posts in the governing bodies applies to European critical infrastructures and critical infrastructures identified or designated as such under national law.
- Prohibiting on providing gas storage capacity in the Union to Russian nationals, natural persons residing in Russia or legal persons or entities established in Russia. 
- Introducing an obligation for aircraft operators to notify non-scheduled flights to their competent authorities.
- Requiring that natural and legal persons, entities and bodies supply to the competent authorities of the Member States and simultaneously to the Commission information on assets and reserves of the Central Bank of Russia which they hold or control or are a counterparty to.
- Providing for rules on the release by the customs authorities of the Member States of goods which are physically in the Union and which had already been presented to customs authorities when they became subject to such restrictions.
*** added 23-June-2023
- Prohibiting the transit via the territory of Russia of goods and technology which might contribute to Russia’s military and technological enhancement or to the development of its defence and security sector, goods and technology suited for use in aviation or space industry and jet fuel and fuel additives, exported from the Union.
- Adopting appropriate individual measures addressing the involvement of third-country operators in facilitating circumvention. Such measures may include individual designations under Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 or other measures under Regulation (EU) No 833/2014, such as adding entities to Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 833/2014, including on the basis of information and suggestions received from Member States.
- Prohibiting the sale, license or transfer in any other way of intellectual property rights or trade secrets, as well as the granting of rights to access or re-use any material or information protected by means of intellectual property rights or constituting trade secrets, related to the goods and technology whose sale, supply, transfer or export, to a person, entity or body in Russia or for use in Russia is prohibited.
- Prohibiting access to ports and locks in the territory of the Union by vessels engaged in ship-to-ship transfers where the competent authorities have reasonable cause to suspect that a vessel is in breach of the ban on importing seaborne Russian crude oil and petroleum products into the Union or is transporting Russian crude oil or petroleum products purchased above the price cap agreed by the Price Cap Coalition.
- Prohibiting access to ports and locks in the territory of the Union by vessels which competent authorities have reasonable cause to suspect of illegally interfering with, switching off or otherwise disabling their shipborne automatic identification systems (AIS) when transporting Russian crude oil and petroleum products in breach of SOLAS Regulation V/19, point 2.4.
*** added 18-December 2023
- Import ban on Russian diamonds.
- Import ban on raw materials for steel production, processed aluminium products and other metal goods.
- Export controls on dual use/advanced tech.
- Export bans on EU industrial goods.
- Prohibiting the provision of enterprise and design-related software to the Russian government or Russian companies.
- import ban on liquified petroleum gas (LPG).
- Broadening of the scope of the transit prohibition.
- Obligation for operators to contractually prohibit the re-export to Russia or for use in Russia.
*** added 23-02-2024 - Sanctions package 13
*** added 24-06-2024 - Sanctions package 14
*** added 16-12-2024 - Sanctions package 15
*** added 24-02-2025 - Sanctions package 16
*** added 20-05-2025 - Sanctions package 17
*** added 18-07-2025 - Sanctions package 18
- Due to the number of changes, see the specific regulation