Sanctions Legislation Update: Syria

Published by	External Relations
Type	Sanctions
Date published	25 April 2025

1. On 24 April 2025 the Minister for External Relations (the 'Minister') made the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Implementation of External Sanctions) (Jersey) Amendment Order 2025 (the 'Amendment Order') to amend Schedule 1 and Schedule 3 of the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Implementation of External Sanctions) (Jersey) Order 2021 (the 'Sanctions Implementation Order'). The Amendment Order comes into force on 25 April 2025.

Syria Sanctions Regime

2. The UK Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the 'UK Syria Regulations') are given effect in Jersey through the provisions of the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law  2019 and the Sanctions Implementation Order. A person commits an offence if they breach a provision of the UK Syria Regulations that is listed in Schedule 1 to the Sanctions Implementation Order.

3. The UK Syria Regulations have been amended by the Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (the 'UK Syria Amendment Regulations').

4. The UK Syria Amendment Regulations make amendments to the UK Syria Regulations to remove sanctions prohibitions relating to investment, financial services and financial markets, aircraft, trade (including in relation to the export and import of crude oil and petroleum products), bank notes and coinage and the export of goods relating to electricity production.

5. The Amendment Order implements these changes in Jersey by removing the corresponding provisions from Schedule 1 to the Sanctions Order, and making an amendment to Schedule 3 to the Sanctions Order in relation to aircraft sanctions.

Further information

6. Further information on sanctions can be found on Government of Jersey and Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) websites.

7. Jersey guidance on the Syria sanctions regime is available at JFSC Sanctions by country and category.

8. A copy of the UK Regulations can be obtained from legislation.gov.uk.

9. Other relevant information about this regime can be found on financial sanctions targets by regime on GOV.UK; The UK Sanctions List on GOV.UK. and The UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation Consolidated List on GOV.UK.

Enquiries

10. Non-media enquiries should be emailed to the Financial Sanctions Implementation Unit at sanctions@gov.je.