Sanctions
Lack of harmonisation of customs sanctions: Italian case
Barbara Bonafini18 Nov 2025
Lack of harmonisation of customs sanctions: Italian case
This presentation examines the lack of harmonisation of customs sanctions across the EU, with a detailed look at the Italian legal framework, and is directly relevant to customs and trade compliance professionals operating across member states with divergent enforcement regimes. Topics covered: Divergence between EU member states in sanctioning customs...
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Non-preferential origin and EU sanctions on Russia
Christelle Dubouchet17 Aug 2025
Non-preferential origin and EU sanctions on Russia
In this short presentation, Christelle Dubouchet, Global Senior Legal Counsel at SITA, explains how EU sanctions against Russia intersect with the rules of non-preferential origin, focusing on the iron and steel sector. Topics covered: Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 and the EU's restrictive measures against Russia How non-preferential origin rules interact...
Origin
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Managing risk - forced labour, sanctions and deforestation
Anthony Buckley01 Dec 2024
Managing risk - forced labour, sanctions and deforestation
Anthony Buckley (Anthony Buckley Consulting Ltd.) examines how customs agents, representatives and other supply-chain operators can manage growing exposure to liability under three EU regulatory regimes: deforestation, forced labour and Russia/Belarus sanctions — all relevant for compliance professionals assessing where their responsibility begins and ends. Topics covered: The EU concept...
Sustainability
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International sanctions: the scope and impact in Europe in relation to trade in goods
Customs Knowledge Institute17 Oct 2023
International sanctions: the scope and impact in Europe in relation to trade in goods
A CKI podcast panel discussion on how international sanctions are reshaping trade compliance across Europe, with practical national-level detail from Lithuania, Germany and the UK — essential viewing for customs and trade compliance professionals managing sanctions exposure. Topics covered: Whether the application of sanctions controls is consistent across EU member...
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EU Export Control & Sanctions: Updates
Annette Reiser01 Sep 2023
EU Export Control & Sanctions: Updates
The 11th EU sanctions package against Russia and Belarus, combined with fast-moving national controls in individual member states, creates real compliance challenges for anyone trading goods that could be exported to or via sanctioned countries. This webinar is aimed at all supply-chain professionals who are, or may be, directly or...
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Critical drive & automation products subject to export control
Armin Belle01 Jun 2023
Critical drive & automation products subject to export control
Export control is not just a legal-department concern: it directly affects engineers and trade compliance professionals working with drive and automation products, especially as EU sanctions on Russia and Belarus continue to expand. Topics covered: The four subsectors of export control (goods-specific, consignee-specific, application-specific and country-specific), and why all four...
Digitalisation
Sanctions
What is the design behind export controls and sanctions?Annette Reiser26 Jan 2023
What is the design behind export controls and sanctions?
Political decisions can suddenly disrupt supply chains, but there is a design behind export controls and sanctions — understanding that design helps customs and trade compliance professionals prepare for the unexpected and manage its impact. Topics covered: The EU principle of freedom of foreign trade and why restrictions always require...
Sanctions
What might be the consequences of non-authorised export?
Enrika Naujokė18 Sep 2022
What might be the consequences of non-authorised export?
This short case study looks at what can happen when a non-authorised export of dual-use goods to Russia is discovered — relevant for anyone handling export controls, sanctions compliance, or dual-use goods classification. Topics covered: EU restrictive measures (sanctions) against Russia under Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014, and the prohibition...
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Introduction to export controls – What is it? Why? When? How?
Bertrand Rager09 Jun 2022
Introduction to export controls – What is it? Why? When? How?
Are you transferring software or technology overseas? Do you know that an export licence may be required? Or that an export could even take place in your own country? Watch the video on a practical situation in a company and learn more about the tangible and intangible export of software...
Sanctions
Customs and Export Control Specialist: How to ensure compliance in the “disaster area”?
Gerhard Friese29 Sep 2021
Customs and Export Control Specialist: How to ensure compliance in the “disaster area”?
A practical video lesson for customs professionals and managing directors on how to organise a company's international customs and export control compliance so it does not become a "disaster area" spread thinly across disconnected departments. Topics covered: Why customs-related responsibility cuts across many departments (purchase, production, trade, sale) Real-world compliance...
Sanctions