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EU Parties Don’t Have to Comply With US Sanctions Against Syria, EU Says

The European Commission this week updated its Syria-related sanctions guidance to clarify what types of activities with the country are permitted after the EU in February suspended certain restrictions against Syria (see 2502240010). The guidance also addresses how EU companies…

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should approach the “interplay between EU sanctions and US sanctions” against Syria, saying that EU parties “are not required to comply with US sanctions. They are only required to comply with EU sanctions.” It added that U.S. sanctions “might be intended to produce effects beyond the US territory and seek to regulate the behaviour of EU economic operators that have no significant connection to the US,” but the EU doesn’t recognize the “extra-territorial application of laws adopted by third countries and considers such application to be contrary to international law.”