Further to our previous sanctions newsletters we herewith inform
about recent sanctions developments as follows.
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The Swedish Administrative Court has issued decisions regarding
the "control-test" in relation to sanctioned
entities
Two administrative courts have issued judgments which overturn
decisions issued by, respectively, the Swedish Customs Agency and
the Swedish Energy Agency. The agencies had prohibited transactions
with certain Russian companies on the basis that the companies are
controlled by entities targeted by sanctions pursuant to Council
Regulation 269/2014. The courts found in both instances that the
respective agency had failed to meet its burden of proof to show
that the sanctioned entities exercised a sufficient level of
control (the Administrative Court of Uppsala, case number 4830-22,
the Administrative Court of Linköping, case number 3271-22 and
3909-22), see below. The judgments are a reminder
