With grateful thanks to the Ministry of Finance and the Economy
in Poland for the provision of the information, this blog can
provide an up-to-date summary of the scale of financial penalties
imposed by the Polish authorities in relation to Russian and
Belarusian sanctions violations.
These figures relate to the period up to 28 August 2025.
In total the Polish authorities have imposed 42 financial
penalties, broken down on the following basis:
- 24 penalties in relation to breaches of EU Regulation 833/2014,
with total fines of PLN 6,850,949 (just over €1.6m);
- 6 penalties for breaches of EU Regulation 269/2014, with total
fines of PLN 911,515 (just over €213,000);
- 10 penalties for breaches of the Polish Sanctions Act of 13
April 2022, with total fines of PLN 18,886,441 (€4.42m);
