Overview of current sanctions measures
Current sanctions measures implemented by Jersey in relation to ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida foreign terrorist organisations include:
- Subject to certain derogations, a freeze on the funds and economic resources of, and a prohibition on making resources available to, persons and entities associated with ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (both designated and not designated by the UN)
- Travel restrictions
- Ban on provision of certain services
- Restriction on certain claims made by certain persons, entities or bodies
Latest news
27 May 2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/706 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission to amend Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with effect from 27 May 2020.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decisions made on 21 May 2020 to add one individual to the UN sanctions list.
21 May 2020
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14195 add one entry to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
21 April 2020
UK Consolidation list of designated persons against the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations has been amended to reflect the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 369/2014 (“the First Amending Regulation”) and the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/807 (“the Second Amending Regulation”) so that an asset freeze no longer applies to four persons.
3 April 2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/483 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission to amend Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with effect from 4 April 2020.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decisions made on 24 March 2020 to remove one individual from the UN sanctions list.
24 March 2020
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14146 removed one entry from its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
11 March 2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/390 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission to amend Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with effect from 11 March 2020.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decisions made on 4 March 2020 to add 3 entries to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.
4 March 2020
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14136 added 3 entries to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
2 March 2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/288 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission to amend Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with effect from 2 March 2020.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decisions made on 23 February 2020 to add 2 entries to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.
26 February 2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/259 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission to amend Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with effect from 27 February 2020.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decisions made on 18 February 2020 to remove 2 entries from the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.
23 February 2020
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14118 added 2 entries to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
18 February 2020
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14113 removed 2 entries from its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017). Therefore, the assets freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo no longer apply to that persons.
18 February 2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/218 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission to amend Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with effect from 19 February 2020.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decisions made on 20 June 2017 to amend the identifying information of 2 existing entries on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
11 February 2020
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/184 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission. One entry has been added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 and is now subject to an asset freeze with effect from 11 February 2020.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decision SC/14097 made on 4 February 2020 to add one entry on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
4 February 2020
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14097 added 1 entry to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
14 January 2020
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14078 amended 85 entries on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
25 November 2019
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1943 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the Council of the European Union. One entry has been added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 and is now subject to an asset freeze with effect from 25 November 2019.
11 November 2019
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1883 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission with effect from 12 November 2019.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decision SC/14014 made on 5 November 2019 to remove one entry on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
5 November 2019
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/14014 removed one entry from the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
17 October 2019
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1731 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission with effect from 18 October 2019.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decision SC/13984 made on 11 October 2019 to amend one entry on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
15 October 2019
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2019/1717 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the Council of the European Union. The Amending Regulation amended Annex I to the Regulation(EU) 2016/1686: one entry has been removed from the consolidated list and is no longer subject to an asset freeze with effect from 16 October 2019.
11 October 2019
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/13984 amended one entry on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
27 August 2019
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1375 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the European Commission: Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 was amended with effect from 28 August 2019.
The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Committee Decision SC/13924 to amend one entry on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
20 August 2019
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/13924 amended one entry on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1353 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Amending Regulation reflects the UNSC Decision SC/13918 to add two entries to the Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with immediate effect from 20 August 2019.
14 August 2019
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/13918, two entries were added to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
9 August 2019
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/13914 , one entry was amended on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 2368 (2017).
27 May 2019
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/850 (“the Amending Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Amending Regulation amended Annex I to the Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002 with effect from 28 May 2019.
The Amending Regulation reflects the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee Decision SC/13818 made on 21 May 2019 to remove 1 individual from the UN ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations list.
Jersey regime
In accordance with UN Security Council Resolutions, most notably the UNSCRs 1267(1999) and subsequent Resolutions, the European Community adopted Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 467/2001 prohibiting the export of certain goods and services to Afghanistan, strengthening the flight ban and extending the freeze of funds and other financial resources in respect of the Taliban of Afghanistan (the EC Council Regulation).
Whereas the EC Council Regulation gives effect in the EU to the restrictive measures imposed by some UN Security Council Resolutions, the EU implemented UNSCR 2253 (2015) by adopting Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1686 of 20 September 2016 imposing additional restrictive measures directed against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida and natural and legal persons, entities or bodies associated with them ( the EU Council Regulation).
The EU Legislation (Sanctions – ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida) (Jersey) Order 2016 (the Al-Qaida Order) (in force from 25 March 2016 and amended on 11 October 2016) gives effect to and applies the Da’esh and Al-Qaida Regulations.
Under Article 19(1)(c)(i) of the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019, whenever the Annexes to the Da’esh and Al-Qaida Regulations are amended, those changes take effect immediately in Jersey without the need for any amendment in Jersey legislation. The Annexes provide the lists of persons subject to the restrictive measures.
Under the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2019 (the GPO), all of the standard general provisions, contained in Articles 3 to 8 of the GPO, must be read as part of the Al-Qaida Order. As the Al-Qaida is also a “prior EU sanctions Order”, the additional provisions in the Schedule to the GPO must be read as part of the Al-Qaida Order.
As stipulated in the Al-Qaida Order, any person who:
- contravenes Article 2(1), 2(2), 3 or 4(1) of the EC Council Regulation;or
- contravenes Article 2, 9, 11(1) or 13 of the EU Council Regulation;or
- intentionally furnishes false information or a false explanation to any person (the Minister or any authorised person by the Minister) exercising powers under paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the General Provisions Order; or
- with intent to evade furnishing information or producing documents in accordance with paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the General Provisions Order, destroys, mutilates, defaces, secretes or removes any document, or
any person who, without reasonable excuse:
- fails to comply with a request for information (or for a document or an explanation), made by the Minister (or by a person authorised by the Minister) under paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the General Provisions Order; or
- contravenes Article 4(2) or 5(1) of the EC Council Regulation; or
- contravenes Article 8, 10(1) or 11(2) of the EU Council Regulation,
is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment and a fine.
Important notes
The EU Legislation (Sanctions – ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida) (Jersey) Order 2016 implements the Da’esh and Al-Qaida Regulations to the extent that it does not contradict the Al-Qa’ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) (Channel Islands) Order 2002, which is an Order in Council (legislation made in the UK and extended to Jersey). It is hoped that the Order in Council will be repealed in due course, however it continues to remain in force for the time being.
Legal acts
United Nations Security Council Resolutions:
- UNSCR 1267 (1999)
- UNSCR 1333 (2000)
- UNSCR 1390 (2002)
- UNSCR 1989 (2011)
- UNSCR 2253 (2015)
- UNSCR 2368 (2017)
EU legislation
As the original EC and EU Council Regulations have been the subject of a larger number of amendments, the individual amending legislations and the latest consolidated versions of the Regulations can be found on the EUR-Lex website.
To view the latest consolidated version using this website enter the number of the Regulation you wish to view into the search bar. This should bring up the relevant Regulation as the top search hit. Then click on the date which is hyperlinked after ‘Latest consolidated version’.
Jersey legislation
- EU legislation (Sanctions – ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida) (Jersey) Order 2016
- Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2019
- Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019
- Al-Qa’ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) (Channel Islands) Order 2002
Further information
Useful information is provided on gov.uk regarding Financial sanctions, Al-Qaida
