UK sanctions regimes
Last updated 7 January 2021
This page provides information on UK sanctions regimes currently in force. This includes regimes under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (the Sanctions Act) and under other UK legislation such as the Export Control Order 2008 and the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.
A regime is a collection of sanctions measures put in place for a particular set of purposes. Regimes can be either ‘thematic’ (relating to a particular issue), or ‘geographic’ (relating to a particular country or region).
Find out who is subject to UK sanctions under the Sanctions Act, including designated persons and specified or designated ships.
Find out who is subject to financial sanctions under the Sanctions Act and other UK legislation.
Thematic
- UK sanctions relating to chemical weapons
- UK sanctions relating to domestic counter-terrorism
- UK sanctions relating to cyber activity
- UK global human rights sanctions
- UK sanctions relating to ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida
- Financial Sanctions, UK freezing orders
- UK sanctions relating to unauthorised drilling activities
- UK sanctions relating to international counter-terrorism
- UK sanctions relating to the misappropriation of state funds
Geographic
- UK sanctions relating to Afghanistan
- UK sanctions relating to Armenia and Azerbaijan
- UK sanctions relating to the Republic of Belarus
- UK sanctions relating to Bosnia and Herzegovina
- UK sanctions relating to Burundi
- UK sanctions relating to the Central African Republic
- UK arms embargo on mainland China and Hong Kong
- UK sanctions relating to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- UK sanctions relating to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- UK sanctions relating to Guinea
- UK sanctions relating to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
- UK sanctions relating to Iran (human rights)
- UK sanctions relating to Iran (nuclear weapons)
- UK sanctions relating to Iraq
- UK sanctions relating to Lebanon
- UK sanctions relating to Lebanon (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others)
- UK sanctions relating to Libya
- UK sanctions relating to Mali
- UK sanctions relating to Myanmar
- UK sanctions relating to Nicaragua
- UK sanctions relating to Russia
- UK sanctions relating to Somalia
- UK sanctions relating to South Sudan
- UK sanctions relating to Sudan
- UK sanctions relating to Syria
- UK sanctions relating to Syria cultural property
- UK sanctions relating to Venezuela
- UK sanctions relating to Yemen
- UK sanctions relating to Zimbabwe