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Guidance: Complying with trade sanctions relating to specified ships

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This guidance outlines obligations concerning UK persons and any activity in UK waters under trade sanctions relating to specified ships, as well as the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation’s (OTSI) implementation and enforcement responsibilities.

any individual, business or organisation undertaking activities anywhere in the UK (including the territorial sea)

any business or organisation incorporated or constituted under the law of any part of the UK undertaking activities anywhere in the world

any UK national, wherever they are in the world

If you are unsure about your obligations in a given case, you should consider seeking independent legal advice.

Sanctions regulations provide that the Secretary of State may specify a ship for the purposes of trade and shipping sanctions if the ship is, has been, or is likely to be, involved in a relevant activity.

The relevant activities for which a ship can be specified are regime-specific and can be found within individual sanctions regulations.

A ship can be specified under the following regimes:

The regulations also provide that the Secretary of State must specify a ship by its International Maritime Organization number or any other means for the purposes of the sanctions regulations in order to apply certain UK sanctions to that specified ship.

The UK Sanctions List provides details of the ships specified under the regulations, and details of the sanctions that apply to them.

Trade sanctions may apply to ships specified under the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran (Nuclear) 2019, Iran 2023, and Russia sanctions regimes.

A UK person, as defined in section 21 of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act (2018), may be prohibited from providing the following services to a ship specified under these regulations:

To find out which ships these measures apply to, see the UK Sanctions List.

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