Chemical weapons financial sanctions: list of asset-freeze targets (updated)

Published 17 October 2018

Last updated 28 August 2025 — See all updates

Current list of designated persons: Chemical Weapons

HM Treasury Notice, Chemical Weapons, 28/08/2025

Details

The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 ensure sanctions relating to chemical weapons are implemented effectively after the UK leaves the EU.

Context

This sanctions regime is aimed at deterring the proliferation and use of chemical weapons. This includes encouraging the effective implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, signed at Paris on 13 January 1993 (“the Chemical Weapons Convention”).

The regulations impose asset freezes to deter those who are, or have been, involved in the proliferation or use of chemical weapons. This extends to those who assist, promote or provide support for such activities.

UK regulations

• The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
• The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
• The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2020
• The Chemical Weapons (Asset-Freezing) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018 (applicable prior to 11:00pm, 31 December 2020)

EU regulations (applicable prior to 11:00pm, 31 December 2020)

Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1542

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