Report on the limitations of the current EU restrictive measures (sanctions) regimes

The objective of the Report is to analyse and present in a concise manner the legal constraints on the employment and use of EU restrictive measures (sanctions) imposed by both international law and EU law. The report is structured in the following way. To set the stage for the subsequent discussion, the first part outlines the legal and institutional frameworks underpinning the adoption and implementation of EU restrictive measures. Following this, the second part is dedicated to the description of the EU policy of employing restrictive measures as a foreign policy tool. In the third part, legal limitations on the use of EU restrictive measures are examined and discussed. The concluding remarks recapitulate the main findings of the Report.