The UK government and several other organisations (e.g. the Financial Conduct Authority, Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Law Society, Bar Standards Board, the National Crime Agency) publish guidance on UK sanctions and export controls. This includes sector-specific guidance and regime-specific guidance. All guidance on UK sanctions and export controls is compiled in the sections below.
Guidance related to licensing, de-listing, enforcement, reporting, blocking regulation, export controls, UK judgments and legislative materials is also available on distinct sub-pages under the UK Sanctioning State page.
General Guidance
- OFSI Guidance
- OFSI home page
- OFSI blog posts
- UK compiled financial sanctions guidance
- Who is subject to financial sanctions in the UK? (last updated 28 January 2026)
- UK Financial Sanctions FAQs (last updated 21 July 2026)
- Starter guide to UK sanctions (last updated 30 March 2026)
- Moving to a single list for UK sanctions designations – effective January 2026 (28 January 2026)
- Financial sanctions targets by regime (last updated 28 January 2026)
- Reporting Information to OFSI (last updated 17 July 2025)
- Confidential Reporting to OFSI (27 June 2025)
- UK sanctions guidance for non-UK businesses operating outside the UK (27 June 2025)
- Director disqualification sanctions guidance (8 April 2025)
- Webinars & events page (last updated 12 March 2025)
- Monetary penalties for breaches of financial sanctions (last updated 9 February 2026)
- OFSI Ownership and Control: Public Officials & Control Guidance (last updated 20 August 2024)
- Invite OFSI to speak at or attend an event
- Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Guidance
- FCA Handbook Chapter 7: Sanctions and asset freezes (last updated 29 November 2024)
- Memorandum of understanding between the FCA and OFSI (21 November 2023)
- Memorandum of understanding between the FCA and OTSI (28 May 2026)
- Joint Statement from UK Financial Regulatory Authorities: Sanctions and Cryptoassets (11 March 2022)
- FCA assessment of sanctions systems and controls in financial services firms (last updated 20 March 2024)
- FCA reporting sanctions evasions guidance (last updated 12 February 2026)
- Solicitors Regulation Authority Guidance
- SRA Money laundering: questions and answers (last updated 30 October 2025)
- SRA Sectoral Risk Assessment – Anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (and sanctions) (31 May 2025)
- SRA Guidance on Complying with the UK Sanctions Regime (last updated 1 March 2025)
- SRA Trade Sanctions (5 February 2025)
- SRA Sanctions regime – firm-wide risk assessments (23 January 2024)
- SRA Government sanctions regime – how all firms can stay compliant (3 May 2023)
- SRA Risk Outlook: managing regulatory risk during economic uncertainty (28 July 2023)
- Law Society Guidance
- The Law Society UK sanctions regime (16 March 2026)
- The Law Society Financial sanctions: how to comply (05 February 2024)
- The Law Society My client is a possible sanctions match. What should I do? (26 August 2025)
- The Law Society Practice Advice Service FAQ: Sanctions (29 March 2022)
- The Law Society and Bar Council Sanctions and AML Working Group, “Note on the sanctions ‘control’ test” (13 November 2022)
- The Law Society of Scotland Financial sanctions FAQ
- Bar Standards Board (BSB) & Bar Council Guidance
- BSB Sanctions (last updated October 2025)
- Bar Council Sanctions Guidance (June 2024)
- National Crime Agency (NCA) Guidance
- NCA red alert Shadow Fleet Sanctions Evasion and Avoidance Network (July 2025)
- NCA amber alert on financial sanctions evasion, money laundering & cultural property trafficking through the art storage sector (January 2024)
- NCA red alert on exporting high risk goods (December 2023)
- NCA red alert Gold-based Financial and Trade Sanctions Circumvention (November 2023)
- NCA red alert Financial Sanctions Evasion Typologies: Russian Elites and Enablers (July 2022)
- Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) Guidance
- London Metal Exchange (LME) Guidance
- LME Russia Sanctions (28 July 2025)
- HM Revenue & Customs Guidance
- Estate and letting agency business guidance for money laundering supervision (last updated 31 January 2024)
- Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) Guidance
- How suspected breaches of trade sanctions are assessed by the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) (last updated 31 July 2025)
- Appealing a civil monetary penalty for a breach of trade sanctions (last updated 10 October 2024)
- Information you must provide in response to a trade sanctions information request (last update 10 October 2024)
- Mandatory reporting for suspected breaches of trade sanctions (last updated 10 October 2024)
- What does good breach reporting look like? (16 December 2025)
- Countering Russian sanctions evasion – guidance for businesses (16 March 2026)
- Complying with sanctions relating to banknotes (3 August 2026)
- Complying with trade sanctions relating to specified ships (27 October 2026)
- OFSI Threat Assessment Reports
- Financial Services Threat Assessment Report (13 February 2025)
- Legal Services Threat Assessment Report (3 April 2025)
- Property and Related Services Threat Assessment Report (10 April 2025)
- Cryptoassets Threat Assessment Report (21 July 2025)
- OFSI Video Guidance
- Introduction to OFSI and Financial Sanctions (3 June 2025)
- OFSI Guidance (3 June 2025)
- Consolidated List (3 June 2025)
- Reporting to OFSI (3 June 2025)
- General Licences (3 June 2025)
- Specific Licences (3 June 2025)
- OFSI Licensing Guidance
- OFSI Licensing: Designated Individuals Licensing Principles (last updated 6 June 2025)
- Licensing delegation framework (last updated 6 June 2025)
- Licensing delegation framework (counter-terrorism branch) (last updated 6 June 2025)
- Permitted travel expenses for sanctions licence applications (last updated 6 June 2025)
- ‘Exceptions and Licensing’ in OFSI Financial Sanctions General Guidance (last updated 22 September 2025)
- Guidance on Licences that allow activity prohibited by financial sanctions (last updated 1 September 2025)
- ‘Licensing’ in OFSI Charity Sector Guidance (last updated 21 June 2024)
- ‘Licensing’ in OFSI Guidance for import and export sector (last updated 21 June 2024)
- OFSI ‘Introduction to licensing’ blog post (April 2021)
- OFSI ‘Reasonableness in licensing’ blog post (June 2021)
- OFSI ‘Legal Fees General Licence’ blog post (October 2022)
- OFSI ‘How OFSI Prioritises Licence Applications’ blog post (February 2026)
- OFSI General Licences video (June 2025)
- OFSI Specific Licences video (June 2025)
- Guidance and forms for Oil Price Cap General Licences (last updated 25 July 2025)
- ‘Licensing for financial sanctions’ and ‘Licensing for trade sanctions’ in Russia sanctions Statutory Guidance (last updated 25 September 2025)
- Counter-Terrorism Licensing Policy Paper (last updated 21 May 2021)
- OFSI Personal Staff Payments Licensing Guidance (last updated 6 June 2025)
- OFSI Guidance on Agreement on Defence Export Controls (last updated 9 September 2026)
- OFSI De-listing Guidance
See our UK de-listing page.
- Sanctions Review Request Form: designated persons and UN listed persons (last updated 28 February 2023)
- Guidance on how to request variation or revocation of a sanctions designation or review of a UN listing (last updated 2 February 2023)
- Guidance on how to request a review of the designation or specification of a ship (31 December 2020)
- Section 64, Explanatory Notes to the Economic Crime Act 2022
- UK Enforcement Guidance
See our UK enforcement page.
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) Guidance
- OFSI financial sanctions enforcement and monetary penalties guidance (last updated 14 November 2024)
- OFSI financial sanctions enforcement: decisions and monetary penalties imposed (last updated 30 November 2025)
- Memorandum of Understanding between the Office of Financial Sanctions (OFSI) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (21 November 2023)
- Threat assessments to support sanctions compliance (6 June 2025)
- OFSI Blog: Enforcement and engagement (29 March 2018)
- HSF Moscow penalty: key lessons for industry (4 April 2025)
- Svarog penalty: A lesson in information offences (8 May 2025)
Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI)
- How suspected breaches of trade sanctions are assessed by OTSI (last updated 31 July 2025)
- Appealing a civil monetary penalty for a breach of trade sanctions (last updated 10 October 2024)
- Information you must provide in response to a trade sanctions information request (last updated 10 October 2024)
- Trade, aircraft and shipping sanctions, civil enforcement: guidance (last updated 19 March 2025
Other guidance
- UK Blocking Regulation Guidance
See our UK Blocking Regulation page for more information.
- Protection of Trading Interests guidance (26 June 2023)
- UK Reporting Guidance
See our UK Reporting page for more information.
Financial Sanctions
- Reporting information to OFSI – what to do (last updated 17 July 2025)
- Chapter 5, UK financial sanctions general guidance (last updated 22 September 2025)
- Annual frozen asset review: guidance and reporting form (last updated 11 September 2025)
- OFSI blog, OFSI launches online forms for reporting and licences (17 July 2025)
- OFSI blog, Global IT outage and OFSI reporting obligations (19 July 2024)
- OFSI blog, New reporting requirements for Designated Persons under the Russia Regime (12 February 2024)
- OFSI webinar, Financial sanctions reporting obligations for cryptoasset businesses (15 August 2022)
- OFSI blog, Reporting to OFSI: what do I need to do? (30 August 2022)
- OFSI blog, Reporting to OFSI: how working together helps make sanctions more effective (22 May 2018)
Trade sanctions
- Mandatory reporting for suspected breaches of trade sanctions (last updated 10 October 2024)
- Report a suspected breach of trade sanctions (last updated 27 June 2025)
- Breaches of export control and trade sanctions legislation (last updated 10 April 2024)
- UK Export Controls Guidance
See our UK Export Controls page for more information.
- UK strategic export controls (last updated 21 November 2023)
- Financial sanctions guidance for importers and exporters (last updated 21 June 2024)
- Trade sanctions, arms embargoes, and other trade restrictions (last updated 29 October 2025)
- Training on export control compliance (last updated 12 September 2025)
- Export controls: military goods, software and technology (last updated 10 April 2024)
- End-use controls applying to military related items (last updated 14 April 2023)
- End-use controls applying to WMD-related items, including technical help (19 December 2022)
- End-user and stockist undertaking (EUSU) form guidance (last updated 8 September 2025)
- Supplementary Weapons of Mass Destruction End-Use controls (last updated 7 July 2025)
- Export controls: dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources (last updated 7 July 2025)
- Export controls: torture and capital punishment goods (last updated 8 September 2025)
- Export controls applying to academic researchers (last updated 2 August 2024)
- Applying for export licences using SPIRE (last updated 7 July 2025)
- Exporting military or dual-use technology: definitions and scope (last updated 22 March 2021)
- Compliance visits on exporters (last updated 6 December 2018)
Sector-Specific Guidance
- Legal Services
- SRA Money laundering: questions and answers (last updated 28 January 2026)
- SRA Sectoral Risk Assessment – Anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (and sanctions) (31 May 2025)
- SRA Guidance on Complying with the UK Sanctions Regime (last updated 1 March 2025)
- SRA Trade Sanctions (5 February 2025)
- SRA Sanctions regime – firm-wide risk assessments (23 January 2024)
- SRA Government sanctions regime – how all firms can stay compliant (3 May 2023)
- SRA Risk Outlook: managing regulatory risk during economic uncertainty (28 July 2023)
- The Law Society UK sanctions regime (25 July 2025)
- The Law Society Financial sanctions: how to comply (05 February 2024)
- The Law Society My client is a possible sanctions match. What should I do? (26 August 2025)
- The Law Society Practice Advice Service FAQ: Sanctions (29 March 2022)
- The Law Society and Bar Council Sanctions and AML Working Group, “Note on the sanctions ‘control’ test” (13 November 2022)
- The Law Society of Scotland Financial sanctions FAQ
- BSB Sanctions (last updated October 2025)
- Bar Council Sanctions Guidance (June 2024)
- Legal Services Threat Assessment Report (3 April 2025)
- OFSI ‘Legal Fees General Licence’ blog post (October 2022)
- OFSI ‘New Legal Services General Licence’ blog post (May 2023)
- NCA red alert Financial Sanctions Evasion Typologies: Russian Elites and Enablers (July 2022)
- Financial Services
- Financial sanctions guidance for importers and exporters (last update 21 June 2024)
- Financial sanctions enforcement and monetary penalties guidance (last update 14 November 2024)
- Financial sanctions guidance for ransomware (last updated 7 May 2024)
- STEP Guidance Note: The Trust Services Prohibition in the UK Russia Sanctions Regime (last updated 13 April 2023)
- OFSI Blog: Trust Services Sanctions update (21 March 2023)
- OFSI Blog: Trust Services Sanctions – 5 months on (30 May 2023)
- OFSI Blog: HSF Moscow Penalty: Key Lessons for Industry (4 April 2025)
- OFSI Blog: Svarog Penalty: A Lesson in Information Offences (8 May 2025)
- Financial sanctions guidance for Insolvency Practitioners (last updated 18 March 2025)
- FCA assessment of sanctions systems and controls in financial services firms (last updated 20 March 2024)
- FCA reporting sanctions evasions guidance (last updated 12 February 2026)
- FCA Handbook Chapter 7: Sanctions and asset freezes (last updated 29 November 2024)
- Memorandum of understanding between the FCA and OFSI (21 November 2023)
- Joint Statement from UK Financial Regulatory Authorities: Sanctions and Cryptoassets (11 March 2022)
- Financial Services Threat Assessment Report (13 February 2025)
- Cryptoassets Threat Assessment Report (21 July 2025)
- NCA red alert Gold-based Financial and Trade Sanctions Circumvention (November 2023)
- NCA red alert Financial Sanctions Evasion Typologies: Russian Elites and Enablers (July 2022)
- Joint Money Laundering Steering Group guidance on prevention of money laundering / terrorist financing Part I (last updated August 2025)
- Joint Money Laundering Steering Group guidance on prevention of money laundering / terrorist financing Part II: sectoral guidance (last updated December 2025)
- Transport and Maritime
- Transport sanctions (last update 25 April 2025)
- Transport sanctions: apply for a licence (last updated 27 October 2022)
- Transport sanctions: civil monetary penalties (13 September 2024)
- Guidance for the maritime sector (last update 18 March 2025)
- OFSI, UK Maritime Services Prohibition and Oil Price Cap Guidance (last updated 18 July 2025)
- Maritime Services Ban and Oil Price Cap: Licences and Reporting Forms (last updated 25 July 2025)
- G7+ Coalition OPC Compliance and Enforcement Alert (last updated 25 July 2024)
- G7+ Coalition Maritime Services Advisory (21 October 2024)
- NCA red alert Shadow Fleet Sanctions Evasion and Avoidance Network (July 2025)
- NCA red alert Gold-based Financial and Trade Sanctions Circumvention (November 2023)
- Charity Sector
- Charity Sector guidance (last updated 21 June 2024)
- Charity Commission guidance for charities operating in the Middle East (24 July 2025)
- OFSI Blog, 4 things charities need to know about financial sanctions (13 November 2020)
- Charity Commission for England and Wales Guidance on charities and terrorism (last update 9 November 2022)
- Metals and Commodities
- Russian metals sanctions: overview (last updated 24 April 2025)
- London Metals Exchange: Sanctions & Tariffs
- LME Russia Sanctions (28 July 2025)
- Art and High Value Goods
- High Value Dealers & Art Market Participants guidance (18 March 2025)
- High Value Dealers & Art Market Participants Factsheet
- British Art Market Federation Guidance on Anti Money Laundering (last updated 6 February 2023)
- NCA amber alert on financial sanctions evasion, money laundering & cultural property trafficking through the art storage sector (January 2024)
- Art Market Participants and High Value Dealers Threat Assessment Report (18 June 2025)
- Property and Real Estate
- Financial sanctions guidance for letting agents (last updated 18 March 2025)
- CLC UK Sanctions Regime Advisory Note
- CLC Anti-Money Laundering, Combating Terrorist Financing and Sanction Guidance
- CLC Anti-Money Laundering Red Flags in Conveyancing Transactions
- Estate and letting agency business guidance for money laundering supervision (last updated 31 January 2024)
- Property and Related Services Threat Assessment Report (10 April 2025)
- Public Procurement
- Guidance for non-UK business
- UK sanctions guidance for Armenian businesses (last updated 19 August 2025)
- UK sanctions guidance for Georgian businesses (last updated 19 August 2025)
- UK sanctions guidance for Kazakh businesses (last updated 19 August 2025)
- UK sanctions guidance for Kyrgyz businesses (last updated 19 August 2025)
- UK sanctions guidance for Uzbek businesses (last updated 19 August 2025)
Regime-Specific Guidance
- Afghanistan
- The Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Criminal Offences Report
- Belarus
- The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Trade sanctions: licensing guidance; exceptions guidance (March 2026)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Burundi
- The Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Central African Republic
- The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Chemical Weapons
- The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Cyber-Attacks
- The Cyber (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Cyber (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Ransomware and Sanctions (last updated 7 May 2024)
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- The Democratic Republic of Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Democratic Republic of Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions
- The Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021:
- Guidance
- Policy Paper on how the UK makes anti-corruption designations (26 April 2021)
- Information Note for NGOs and Civil Society (26 April 2021)
- Press release, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab’s statement and Parliamentary Debate (April – July 2021)
- Purpose Report
- Criminal Offences Report
- House of Lords: Magnitsky sanctions (18 June 2021)
- The Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021:
- Global Human Rights Sanctions
- The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020:
- Guidance
- Policy Paper on how the UK makes human rights designations
- Information Note for NGOs and Civil Society
- Press Release, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab’s statement and Parliamentary Debate
- Purpose Report
- Criminal Offences Report
- House of Lords: Magnitsky sanctions (June 2021)
- The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020:
- Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions
- The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions 2025: Guidance
- Republic of Guinea
- The Guinea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Guinea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Republic of Guinea-Bissau
- The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Iran
- Iran sanctions: Guidance (last updated 12 March 2025)
- Iran sanctions amendments effective from 29 September 2026 notice (September 2026)
- Iran: list of designations and sanctions notices (January 2026)
- Iran licensing guidance: presumption of denial of licence applications for designated Iranian banks (September 2026)
Iran (human rights)
- The Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Interception and monitoring prohibitions in sanctions: Technical Guidance (last updated 17 October 2023)
Iran (nuclear proliferation)
- Iran (nuclear proliferation) sanctions: notices (Withdrawn 30 Jan 2026)
- The Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Iran (nuclear): list of designations and sanctions notices (January 2026)
- Iraq
- The Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Criminal Offences Report
- Lebanon
- The Lebanon (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Lebanon (Sanctions) (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- Lebanon (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others): list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- The Lebanon (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Criminal Offences Report
- Libya
- The Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Statutory Guidance, Guidance & HTML format
- The Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Libya: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Mali
- The Mali (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Mali (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Mali: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Misappropriation sanctions (Withdrawn)
- The Misappropriation (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Misappropriation (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Myanmar
- The Myanmar (Sanctions) Regulations 2021: Guidance
- The Burma (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Myanmar: list of designations and sanctions notices (2026)
- Nicaragua
- The Nicaragua (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Nicaragua (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Nicaragua: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- North Korea
- The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Democratic Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- OFSI advisory on North Korean IT workers (12 September 2024)
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Russia
- UK sanctions relating to Russia (last updated 3 November 2025)
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Statutory Guidance
- Russia: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Russia sanctions notices
- Look up considerations for trade licences under the Russia sanctions: Guidance
- The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- UK sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (last updated 13 June 2024)
- Russia import sanctions (last updated 24 April 2025)
- OFSI, UK Maritime Services Prohibition and Oil Price Cap Guidance (last updated 18 July 2025)
- Oil Price Cap (OPC) Advisory: Evasion Linked to Product Origin Manipulation Through Fabricated and Falsified Certificates of Origin (CO) (21 November 2024)
- OFSI blog post on oil price cap update: refined products (2 February 2023)
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Guidance on UK ban on Russian oil and oil products (last updated 14 April 2023)
- OFSI blog post on trust services sanctions update (21 March 2023)
- OFSI financial sanctions guidance for Russia (last updated 17 July 2025)
- OTSI Countering Russian sanctions evasion – guidance for exporters (last updated 4 August 2025)
- OTSI No-Russia clause guidance (7 January 2025)
- Complying with technology transfer sanctions (24 April 2025)
- Complying with sectoral software sanctions (24 April 2025)
- OFSI trust services Guidance page (last updated 1 June 2023)
- FCA ‘New financial sanctions measures in relations to Russia‘ (last updated 28 March 2022)
- OFSI blog post on Russia: What has changed and what do I need to do (10 March 2022)
- FCDO Guidance on designations data (10 March 2022)
- ECJU presentation: ‘UK sanctions against Russia’ (24 March 2022)
- ECJU Guidance on supplying professional and business services to a person connected with Russia (last updated 10 October 2024)
- Additional duties on goods originating in Russia and Belarus (last updated 27 June 2025)
- Trading under sanctions with Russia (last updated 7 January 2025)
- NCA Red Alert, ‘Financial Sanctions Evasion Typologies: Russian Elites and Enablers‘ (July 2022)
- House of Lords: UK trade with Russia (March 2022)
- House of Commons: Sanctions against Russia (August 2022)
- House of Commons: Imports of fossil fuels from Russia (February 2023)
- House of Commons: Sanctions against Russia (February 2023)
- The Law Society Sanctions and Russia: answering your questions (25 July 2025)
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) The importance of complying with Russian financial sanctions (last updated 15 March 2022)
- Solicitors Regulations Authority (SRA) News release “Russia sanctions regime now bans trust services” (16 December 2022)
- Somalia
- The Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Somalia: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- South Sudan
- The South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- South Sudan: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Sudan
- The Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Sudan: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Syria
- Prohibitions on interception and monitoring items and services in Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Technical Guidance
- The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- The Syria (United Nations Sanctions) (Cultural Property) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- Supporting a secure and prosperous future for Syria: guidance for businesses and NGOs: Guidance
- Syria: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Terrorism and Terrorist Financing Sanctions
- The Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- Counter terrorism: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- The Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- The Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- Counter-terrorism (international): list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- The Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- The ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Criminal Offences Report
- OFSI and Home Office Guidance on operating within counter-terrorism legislation, counter-terrorism sanctions and export control (last updated 13 April 2023)
- Charity Commission for England and Wales Guidance on charities and terrorism (last updated 9 November 2022)
- Home Office and OFSI ‘For information note: operating within counter-terrorism legislation, counter-terrorism sanctions and export control’ (last updated 13 April 2023)
- OFSI: How to request variation or revocation of a financial sanction designation under The Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (last updated 3 October 2025)
- Türkiye
- The Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Unauthorised drilling activities: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Venezuela
- The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Interception and monitoring prohibitions in sanctions: Technical Guidance (last updated 17 October 2023)
- Venezuela: list of designations and sanctions notices (Jan 2026)
- Yemen
- The Yemen (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (No.2) Regulations 2020: Guidance
- The Yemen (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Yemen: list of designations and sanctions notices (2026)
- Zimbabwe
- The Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Guidance
- The Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: Purpose Report and Criminal Offences Report
- Zimbabwe: list of designations and sanctions notices (2026)