{"id":52792,"date":"2026-05-01T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?p=52792"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:20:50","slug":"02-2026-eu-sanctions-20th-sanctions-package-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/02-2026-eu-sanctions-20th-sanctions-package-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"02\/2026 EU Sanctions: 20th Sanctions Package Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/2026 EU Sanctions: 20th Sanctions Package Against Russia<\/p>\n<p>Marine Insurance P&#038;I Club News<\/p>\n<p>On 23 April 2026, the Council of the European Union adopted its 20th package of restrictive measures against Russia, amending Regulation (EU) 833\/2014 and Regulation (EU) 269\/2014. These measures were implemented in Council Regulation (EU) 2026\/506, Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026\/509, and Council Regulation (EU) 2026\/511 and published in the Official Journal of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The package comprises 120 individual and entity listings, the largest number in a single package in two years, together with a range of sectoral, trade, financial and anti-circumvention measures.<\/p>\n<p>This update summarises the key measures of particular relevance to shipping, marine insurance, and related maritime services.<\/p>\n<p>Key takeaways for Members<\/p>\n<p>Significant expansion of the shadow fleet regime, including 46 newly listed vessels and new tanker sale due-diligence obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Ban on financial services including insurance to LNG tankers: Russian-owned or flagged from 25 April 2026; all others operating in Russia or for use in Russia from 1 January 2027<\/p>\n<p>Establishment of the legal basis for a future full maritime services ban for Russian crude oil and petroleum products, pending coordinated G7 implementation.<\/p>\n<p>New transaction bans on 2 Russian ports \u2013 Murmansk and Tuapse, and the Karimun Oil Terminal in Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>First use of the EU\u2019s country-level anti-circumvention tool, targeting exports to the Kyrgyz Republic.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.gard.no\/en\/circulars\/02-2026-eu-sanctions-20th-sanctions-package-against-russia\/<\/p>\n<p>hellenicshippingnews&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mh-source-attribution\">\n  <span>Source:<\/span><br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellenicshippingnews.com\/02-2026-eu-sanctions-20th-sanctions-package-against-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hellenicshipping<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/2026 EU Sanctions: 20th Sanctions Package Against Russia<br \/>\nin<br \/>\nMarine Insurance P&#038;I Club News<br \/>\n01\/05\/2026<br \/>\nOn 23 April 2026, the Council of the European Union adopted its 20th package of restrictive measures against Russia, amending Regulation (EU) 833\/2014 and Regulation (EU) 269\/2014. These measures were implemented in Council Regulation (EU) 2026\/506, Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026\/509, and Council Regulation (EU) 2026\/511 and published in the Official Journal of the EU.<br \/>\nThe package comprises 120 individual and entity listings, the largest number in a single package in two years, together with a range of sectoral, trade, financial and anti-circumvention measures.<br \/>\nThis update summarises the key measures of particular relevance to shipping, marine insurance, and related maritime services.<br \/>\nKey takeaways for Members<br \/>\nSignificant expansion of the shadow fleet regime, including 46 newly listed vessels and new tanker sale due-diligence obligations.<br \/>\nBan on financial services includi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","c2c-post-author-ip":"2.217.156.155","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-shipping-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52805,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52792\/revisions\/52805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}