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The EU Council has extended for a further year the measures imposed by Council Regulation 692/2014 and Council Decision 2014/386/CFSP in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia (see our earlier Sanctions blog post on the previous one year extension here). The implementing legislation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 18 June 2016. The Council took this opportunity to reaffirm its previous statement of 19 March 2015 that the EU continues to condemn the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol. The above was authored by Ross Denton and Sunny Mann of our London office. For updates, please check our Sanctions blog. |
