The European Union should already be preparing to create new tools for monitoring compliance with sanctions, including expanding the powers of a special prosecutor for sanctions cases.
This was stated in a comment to Guildhall by Lithuanian Seimas member Matas Maldeikis.
According to him, the idea of expanding the powers of a special European prosecutor in the area of sanctions violations is “a good idea.” Moreover, he emphasized: “in general, I strongly support expanding the powers of the European Prosecutor in this direction, as well as in other directions.”
In his opinion, after the end of the current war, the European Union will inevitably have to build new mechanisms for sanctions policy. He noted: “we in the European Union will have to find new forms to address this problem and create new tools for working with the sanctions regime,” because “we will have more and more situations in which we will have to impose sanctions regimes against Moscow, possibly China, possibly other countries.”
The MP believes that sanctions policy should receive a more stable institutional foundation. According to him, “this means that the European Union will have to create an institution, institutionalize this issue,” and agree that member states “transfer and delegate their powers to prosecute companies” that violate the sanctions regime.
He also allowed for the creation of a special oversight mechanism, noting the need to “appoint some kind of ombudsman or something of that sort regarding companies that do not comply with the sanctions regime.”
Emphasizing the inevitability of such changes, the Lithuanian parliamentarian stated: “absolutely and 100 percent. Now it is a matter of time. I am sure of that.”
Earlier. The Lithuanian MP advocated expanding the powers of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and creating special mechanisms at the EU level to monitor compliance with the sanctions regime. In his opinion, in the future the European Union will increasingly have to impose sanctions against states that violate international norms, so the issues of investigating sanctions violations and prosecuting companies that violate sanctions should receive a permanent institutional foundation at the pan-European level.
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