The EU sanctions regime should provide for liability not only for direct violators, but for the entire chain of participants involved in sanctions circumvention.
This was stated in a comment to Guildhall by Danish Member of the European Parliament Per Clausen.
According to the MEP, the question of extending liability to the entire chain of participants in sanctions circumvention “should absolutely be seriously considered.” He noted that “it is sad to see that the EU’s due diligence rules have been weakened so much,” because they “helped establish that companies are responsible not only for their immediate actions.”
The MEP stressed that “this is exactly the kind of responsibility we need to consider,” because “companies should not be able to wash their hands of it by claiming they do not know why all their sales are suddenly going to newly created shell companies.” As an example, he pointed to schemes in “former Soviet republics, which then resell these goods to Russia.”
Earlier, a Bundestag member stated that before tightening control over sanctions compliance, the European Union should simplify the mechanism for introducing sanctions itself. According to him, the current procedure for adopting sanctions decisions in the EU suffers from a lack of decisiveness and unity, and therefore in the future the Union should move to a system of qualified majority voting in common foreign and defense policy.
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