March 25, 2026: UK publishes sanctions regime summaries


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Summaries for sanctions regimes

To make guidance on UK sanctions regimes clearer and more accessible, we’ve published summaries of prohibitions under each regime. These new summaries will enable readers to see an overview of what sanctions apply in a regime.

Each summary gives a quick overview of the sanctions in place under the regime, covering, where applicable:

  • the regime’s scope
  • what applies to designated persons and specified ships
  • wider financial and trade sanctions
  • sanctions on goods and services 
  • additional sanction types

Regime summaries are not comprehensive and are not a replacement for the statutory guidance or the regulations themselves.

You can open the summary and the refreshed statutory guidance for each regime directly from the Current UK sanctions regimes page using the regime’s ‘guidance’ link.

Regimes listed by country

Afghanistan sanctions: guidance

Republic of Belarus sanctions: guidance

Bosnia and Herzegovina sanctions: guidance

Central African Republic sanctions: guidance

Democratic Republic of the Congo sanctions: guidance

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sanctions: guidance

Guinea sanctions: guidance

Republic of Guinea-Bissau sanctions: guidance

Haiti Sanctions: guidance

Iran sanctions: guidance

Iran nuclear sanctions: guidance

Iraq sanctions: guidance

Lebanon sanctions: guidance

Lebanon (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) sanctions: guidance

Libya sanctions: guidance

Mali sanctions: guidance

Myanmar sanctions: guidance

Nicaragua sanctions: guidance

Russia sanctions: guidance

Somalia sanctions: guidance

South Sudan sanctions: guidance

Sudan sanctions: guidance

Syria sanctions: guidance

Syria cultural property sanctions: guidance

Venezuela sanctions: guidance

Yemen sanctions: guidance

Zimbabwe sanctions: guidance

Regimes listed by theme

Chemical weapons sanctions: guidance

Counter-terrorism sanctions: guidance

Counter-terrorism international sanctions: guidance

Cyber sanctions: guidance

Global anti-corruption sanctions: guidance

Global human rights sanctions: guidance

Global irregular migration and trafficking in persons sanctions: guidance

ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions: guidance

Unauthorised drilling activities sanctions: guidance


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