Export Controls And Sanctions Update – May 2016

Further to our January update, this alert sets out the export control and sanctions updates for the months February to May 2016.

1. SANCTIONS UPDATE

The European Union ("EU") has updated various sanctions regimes, including those against Al Qaida, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Central African Republic, Egypt, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Russia, Syria and Tunisia.

1.1 Al Qaida

In order to further implement the Decisions adopted by the United Nations ("UN") Security Council between the months of October and December 2015, Regulation 2016/13 amended the entries of twelve individuals (Nashwan Abd Al-Razzaq Abd Al-Baqi, Mohammad Tahir Hammid, Ata Abdoulaziz Rashid, Farhad Kanabi Ahmad, Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, Akram Turki Hishan Al-Mazidih, Ghazy Fezza Hishan Al-Mazidih, Muthanna Harith Al-Dari, Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali Al-Badri Al-Samarrai, Abu Mohammed Al-Jawlani and Tarkhan Ismailovich Gaziev) and deleted the entry of one person from that