On this page you will find information about recent changes to sanctions measures.
This includes the introduction of new sanctions regimes, as well as changes to existing measures. References to Guernsey Ordinances should be read as including corresponding Ordinances that have been introduced by Alderney and Sark.
Please be aware that this page is intended to provide guidance only, and it remains the responsibility of individuals and businesses within the jurisdiction to familiarise themselves with all changes, to check any relevant records they may hold for matches with sanctioned persons or activities, and to report any findings to the Policy & Resources Committee.
The effect of changes to listings and other measures
Under Bailiwick Ordinances giving effect to EU Regulations and Orders in Council giving effect to United Nations Security Council Resolutions, changes to lists of designated individuals or entities subject to asset freezes and other restrictions are automatically effective without the need for any further domestic legislation.
The same is true of changes to designations in relation to terrorist financing by the Policy and Resources Committee, HM Treasury or the EU that are implemented in the Bailiwick by the Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2011.
Any accounts, funds or economic resources belonging to, owned, held or controlled by a newly designated person must be treated as frozen with immediate effect, and no funds or economic resources should be made available directly or indirectly to or for the benefit of that person unless authorised by the appropriate licensing authority. Under the Ordinances giving effect to EU Regulations and the Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2011 this is the Policy and Resources Committee. Under Orders in Council giving effect to United Nations Security Council Resolutions, this is HM Procureur.
Changes to UN designations in relation to ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida or the Taliban in Afghanistan under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 are automatically effective in the Bailiwick once corresponding changes have been made to EU designations under Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 and Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011. In the period between the making of a new UN designation and a corresponding EU designation, businesses and other parties within the Bailiwick are advised to refrain from making assets of any kind directly or indirectly available to any newly designated person, as this would be likely to constitute a terrorist financing offence under sections 8 to 11 of the Terrorism and Crime (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2002. Requests to make assets available may also give rise to knowledge, suspicion or reasonable grounds for knowledge or suspicion that another person is engaged in terrorist financing, in which case a disclosure should be made to the Financial Intelligence Service in the form and manner prescribed by the Terrorism and Crime (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Regulations, 2007, as amended.
Recent changes
Update Table 2019
Latest update: Afghanistan, Al-Qaida/Isis, Zimbabwe, 18 February 2019
SANCTIONS UPDATE TABLE 2019
NEW SANCTIONS REGIMES
Sanctions Regime
Domestic Legislation
Link to underlying enactment
CHANGES TO EXISTING REGIMES
Sanctions Regime
Domestic Legislation
Link to updating information
Afghanistan
Afghanistan (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2011
Al-Qaida/Isis
Al-Qaida (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2013
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 amendment 08/02/2019
Belarus
Belarus (Freezing of Funds) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2006
Burma/Myanmar
Myanmar /Burma (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2013
Burundi
Burundi (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2015
Corrigendum to Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1605
Central African Republic
Central African Republic (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2014
Democratic Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order, 2003
Democratic Republic of the Congo (United Nations Sanctions) (Channel Islands) Order, 2005
Egypt
Egypt (Freezing of Funds) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2011
Eritrea
Eritrea (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2012
Iran (nuclear proliferation)
Iran (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2012
Iran (human rights)
Iran (Freezing of Funds) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2011
Iraq
Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) Channel Islands Order, 2000
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 amendments 08/01/2019
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 amendments 29/01/2019
Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) Channel Islands Order, 2003
Lebanon and Syria
Lebanon and Syria (United Nations Measures) (Channel Islands) Order, 2006
Libya
Libya (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2016
Mali
Mali (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2017
North Korea
North Korea (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007
North Korea (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2017
Republic of Guinea
Republic of Guinea (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2012
Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2012
Republic of Maldives
Republic of Maldives (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2018
Russia
Russian Federation (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2014
Somalia
Somalia (United Nations Sanctions) Channel Islands Order, 2002
Somalia (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2012
South Sudan
South Sudan (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2015
Sudan
Sudan (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2014
Syria
Syria (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2012
Tunisia
Tunisia (Freezing of Funds) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2011
Ukraine (misappropriation of funds/human rights)
Ukraine (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2014
Ukraine (territorial integrity)
Territorial Integrity etc. of Ukraine (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2014
Ukraine (Crimea and Sevastopol)
Crimea and Sevastopol (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2014
Venezuela
Venezuela (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2017
Yemen
Yemen (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2014
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (Freezing of Funds and Economic Resources) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2004
Zimbabwe (Sale, Supply, Export, Financing and Financial Assistance and Shipment of Equipment) (Penalties and Licences) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2004
Chemical Weapons
The Chemical Weapons (Restrictive Measures) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2018
Terrorist financing
Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2011
2018 updates
2017 updates
