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The Regulations also extend the relevant exceptions and licensing provisions to the relevant Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including an exception permitting the satisfaction of obligations arising under a prior contract concluded before 23 February 2022 in certain situations.
The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2022 from 18 July introduced a new humanitarian exception from the prohibition on outward trade in goods and infrastructure-related services for humanitarian assistance activity in the nongovernment-controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Humanitarian assistance activity includes the work of international and non-governmental organisations carrying out relief activities for the benefit of the civilian population of the non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
The Regulations also extend the relevant exceptions and licensing provisions to the relevant Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including an exception permitting the satisfaction of obligations arising under a prior contract concluded before 23 February 2022 in certain situations,
There are 3 exceptions:
– the import of prohibited goods and the provision of financial services and funds from the non-government controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts is permitted if related to an obligation arising from a contract concluded before 23 February 2022. For this exception to apply, the action carried out under these contracts, or ancillary contracts necessary for their execution, must be carried out by 24 August 2022.
– the import of goods originating in non-government controlled Ukrainian territory, where those goods have been satisfactorily certified by or on behalf of the Government of Ukraine as originating in Ukraine.
– the prohibitions do not apply if the act is one which a ‘responsible officer’ (for example, a government or agency official) has determined would be in the interests of national security, or the prevention or detection of serious crime in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
The Regulations also extend the relevant exceptions and licensing provisions to the relevant Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including an exception permitting the satisfaction of obligations arising under a prior contract concluded before 23 February 2022 in certain situations,
The Regulations also extend the relevant exceptions and licensing provisions to the relevant Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including an exception permitting the satisfaction of obligations arising under a prior contract concluded before 23 February 2022 in certain situations,
There is an exemption for goods originating in Russia and Belarus that have completed Russian or Belarusian export formalities and left those territories before 25 March 2022.