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Prohibition does not apply to personal effects that are taken by an individual leaving Canada for Belarus that are solely for the use of the individual or the individual’s immediate family.

Prohibition does not apply to:
(a) goods temporarily exported for use by a representative of the media from Canada or from a partner country that is listed in Annex 1 to the Restricted Goods and Technologies List;
(b) goods for use in support of international nuclear safeguards verifications;
(c) goods for use by a department or agency of the Government of Canada or of a partner country that is listed in Annex 1 to the Restricted Goods and Technologies List;
(d) goods for use in inspections under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction;
(e) goods for use in relation to the activities of the International Space Station;
(f) software updates for an end-user that is a civilianentity that is owned, held or controlled by a Canadian or a national of a partner country that is listed in Annex 1 to the Restricted Goods and Technologies List, or a subsidiary of such an entity;
(g) civil aircraft registered in a foreign state that are departing from Canada after a temporary sojourn in Canada or civil aircraft registered in Canada departing for a temporary sojourn abroad;
(h) the following goods, if stored on board an aircraft or ship: (i) equipment and spare parts that are necessary for the proper operation of the aircraft or ship, (ii) usual and reasonable quantities of supplies intended for consumption on board the aircraft or ship during the outgoing and return flight or voyage;
(i) goods exported for use or consumption on an aircraft or ship that is registered in Canada or the US;
(j) goods exported by an air carrier that is owned by a Canadian or a national of the US for use in the maintenance, repair or operation of an aircraft registered in Canada or the US;
(k) consumer communication devices that are generally available to the public and designed to be installed by the user without further substantial support;
(l) personal effects exported by an individual that are solely for the use of the individual or the individual’s immediate family and are not intended for sale or to remain in Russia unless consumed there.

The amendments include a new Schedule 6 which lists “Partner Countries” to which several specific exceptions apply. The countries listed under Schedule 6 include NATO, EU and other states which have coordinated their sanctions measures imposed on Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
The exceptions listed in the amendment include:
– Goods temporarily exported for use by a representative of the media from Canada or from a partner country referred to in Schedule 6
(a) goods temporarily exported for use by a representative of the media from Canada or from a partner country that is listed in Annex 1 to the Restricted Goods and Technologies List (changed by Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations: SOR/2022-95);
– Goods for use in support of international nuclear safeguards verifications
– Goods for use by a department or agency of the Government of Canada or of a partner country referred to in Schedule 6
(c) goods for use by a department or agency of the Government of Canada or of a partner country that is listed in Annex 1 to the Restricted Goods and Technologies List (changed by Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations: SOR/2022-95);
– Goods for use in inspections under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, signed at Paris, France on 13 January 1993, as amended from time to time
– Goods for use in relation to the activities of the International Space Station
– Software updates for end-users that are civilian entities that are owned, held or controlled by a Canadian or a national of a partner country referred to in Schedule 6, or subsidiaries of those entities
(f) software updates for an end-user that is a civilian entity that is owned, held or controlled by a Canadian or a national of a partner country that is listed in Annex 1 to the Restricted Goods and Technologies List, or a subsidiary of such an entity (changed by Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations: SOR/2022-95);
– Civil aircraft registered in a foreign state that are departing from Canada after a temporary sojourn in Canada or civil aircraft registered in Canada departing for a temporary sojourn abroad
– The following goods, if stored on board an aircraft or ship:
– Equipment and spare parts that are necessary for the proper operation of the aircraft or ship, or
– Usual and reasonable quantities of supplies intended for consumption on board the aircraft or ship during the outgoing and return flight or voyage
– Goods exported for use or consumption on an aircraft or ship that is registered in Canada or the US
– Goods exported by an air carrier that is owned by a Canadian or a national of the US for use in the maintenance, repair or operation of an aircraft registered in Canada or the US
– Consumer communication devices that are generally available to the public and designed to be installed by the user without further substantial support
– Personal effects exported by an individual that are solely for the use of the individual or the individual’s immediate family and are not intended for sale or to remain in Russia unless consumed there.
Schedule 6 to the Regulations was repealed by Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations: SOR/2022-95.