Binding Acts

Myanmar Sanctions Renewed as Min Aung Hlaing Takes the Presidency

The EU extends its Myanmar restrictive measures regime until April 2027, amending 33 individual listings and 9 entity entries to reflect the junta's institutional...

Four Asian Currency Benchmarks Are Too Embedded to Regulate. Brussels has acknowledged this.

EU investment funds and corporates rely on dollar-rupee, dollar-won, dollar-Taiwan dollar, and dollar-peso benchmarks to hedge their Asian currency exposure. None of those benchmarks...

The Forced Labour Ban Has an Enforcement Infrastructure Now

Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 prohibited products made with forced labour from the EU market. What it lacked was the digital backbone to make that prohibition...

Germany’s Forests Are Emitting More Than They Absorb. This Has Now Become a Legal Problem.

Two instruments published together set every member state’s binding annual carbon budget through 2030: one for land and forests, one for transport, buildings, and...

Animal Product Import from Botswana, Canada, UK, and US Suspended Over Disease Outbreaks

An implementing regulation removes protection zone status for foot-and-mouth disease in Botswana and suspends HPAI-free certification for zones in three third countries. Re-authorisations cover...

EU Bans Destruction of Unsold Consumer Products

A delegated regulation defines ten grounds on which businesses may destroy unsold consumer products under the Ecodesign Regulation's ban. Safety hazards, IP rights breaches,...

Anti-Disease Response Overhauled As Influenza Continues Spreading

A 31-page delegated regulation revises disease containment procedures covering avian influenza, after two weeks of failed efforts to contain outbreaks in the east, as...

EU Launches New Civilian Mission in Armenia to Counter Hybrid Threats and Russian-Backed Interference

The Council establishes EUPM Armenia, the EU's first CSDP civilian mission in the South Caucasus. It focuses on protecting Armenia from disinformation, foreign interference,...

Brussels Renews Moldova Sanctions against Russian Influence Network

The EU extends measures against Kremlin-linked actors in Moldova to April 2027. The updated list targets Ilan Shor, Vladimir Plahotniuc, and five others accused...

Honey, Cherries, and Aniseed to Face New Pesticide Limits

Updated maximum residue levels for five pesticide substances take effect 20 days after publication. The changes follow risk assessments by the European Food Safety...

Euromore and Pravfond Sanctioned for Information Warfare

One outlet operated from the EU's own capital while rebroadcasting RT and Sputnik content under a rebranded alias; the other is a Moscow foundation...

The Dagalo Family’s War Machine: How the EU Is Holding Sudan’s RSF Accountable

The newly approved EU sanctions lists brings four individuals with ties to the Rapid Support Forces into sharper focus as Sudan's civil war enters...

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