#32026D1105EU updates targeted sanctions linked to Syria
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This decision updates the EU’s Syria sanctions regime after the wider lifting of economic sanctions in 2025. The EU keeps targeted restrictions aimed at people and networks linked to the former al-Assad regime, human rights abuses, and actions that could destabilize Syria’s political transition. Businesses, banks, NGOs, and public bodies working with Syria should continue sanctions screening. The key practical point is that the broader opening toward Syria does not remove the need to check counterparties, ownership links, and transactions for targeted EU restrictions.
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Key Changes
- Updates the EU framework for targeted Syria-related restrictive measures
- Keeps sanctions focused on former al-Assad regime networks, accountability, human rights abuses, and instability risks
- Confirms that EU operators still need sanctions screening despite the broader lifting of economic sanctions on Syria
Obligations
What this law requires
Continue screening Syrian counterparties, beneficial owners, ownership/control links, and transactions against EU targeted restrictive measures related to the former al-Assad regime, human rights violators, and persons or networks fuelling instability in Syria.
Do not treat the 2025 lifting of broader EU economic sanctions on Syria as removing targeted EU restrictive measures against persons and networks linked to the former al-Assad regime or destabilising activities.