Event

Sanctions in the EU’s External Relations

Objective
EU sanctions (restrictive measures) are one of the Union's tools to promote the objectives of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The Council imposes EU restrictive measures (such as the freezing of funds and travel bans) through a CFSP Council decision adopted by unanimity, which is notified to the persons and entities targeted by it. 
These include governments of non-EU countries because of their policies, entities (companies) providing the means to conduct the targeted policies, groups or organisations such as terrorist groups and individuals supporting the targeted policies, involved in terrorist activities etc. The measures can then be challenged before the General Court of the European Union.
This hybrid seminar will provide participants with detailed knowledge on legal aspects of restrictive measures applied by the European Union, including the recent jurisprudence of the CJEU. Moreover, the EU guidelines on the implementation and evaluation of restrictive measures, as well as best practice in the implementation of such restrictive measures, will be analysed and placed within the wider international context of sanctions imposed by other governments and entities. Details about the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime will be presented, as well as how other jurisdictions are dealing with sanctions (UK, USA) and placed within the current geopolitical setting.

Key topics

• EU restrictive measures within the greater geopolitical setting
• EU guidelines on restrictive measures and best practice regarding their implementation, the work of the Freeze and Seize Task Forc
• Practical implications and challenges of EU restrictive measures faced by various actors concerned with their application, how technology can assist (AI)
• Export controls and dual-use goods
• Recent case law of the EU Courts on sanctions
• Judicial review of restrictive measures and procedural aspects of sanctions cases before the Courts of the European Union