Sanctions Laws And Regulations Report 2024 Germany

1.1 Describe your jurisdiction's sanctions regime.

Germany applies all sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council ("UNSC") ("UN Sanctions") and, as a European Union ("EU") Member State, all sanctions imposed by the EU ("EU Sanctions").

Germany does not unilaterally impose sanctions. However, Germany maintains a discrete national export control regime that – in very limited circumstances – is used to impose unilateral export control measures that are sometimes referred to as "German Sanctions" externally. For details, please refer to question 2.10 below.

Germany's sanctions regime distinguishes between sanctions with a focus on a specific jurisdiction ("Länderbezogene Embargomaßnahmen") and sanctions with a focus on specific individuals/entities ("Personenbezogene Embargomaßnahmen"). In the following, we shall refer to both as "sanctions" and use the terminology explained below.