Free EU Sanctions Sanctions Check

The EU Consolidated List of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions is the single dataset that aggregates everyone the European Union has designated under its restrictive measures regime. It is maintained by the European External Action Service and published by the European Commission's Financial Sanctions Database (FSD).

Unlike US sanctions, EU sanctions are issued through Council Regulations that are directly binding on every member state — no national transposition required. A name added to the EU list is, on the same day, sanctioned in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and every other member state. National enforcement varies (some member states are stricter than others), but the underlying obligation is uniform.

Any EU person or EU-established entity is bound by EU sanctions regulations. The territorial reach also extends to: any business done inside EU territory, any business involving an EU-flagged vessel or aircraft, and any euro-denominated transaction routed through an EU bank.

Non-EU companies are commonly affected too. EU subsidiaries of foreign groups carry the obligations. Non-EU parents that share systems with their EU subsidiaries often inherit the operational requirements because the same payment, ERP, or KYC pipeline runs both. And EU secondary sanctions on circumvention have grown teeth — the Russia packages added explicit penalties for facilitating EU sanctions evasion from outside the EU.

The current EU consolidated list runs across more than 40 country- and theme-based programs. The largest by volume are Russia (post-2022 expansion has added thousands of entries), Belarus, Iran, Syria, and Myanmar. Thematic regimes cover terrorism (CFSP 931), cyber-attacks, chemical weapons proliferation, and human rights violations under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime.

Each entry includes identifiers, the underlying Council Decision and Council Regulation, and the date of designation. Because EU sanctions are regulation-based, the official text of each measure is freely available in the Official Journal.

Updates happen every few days on average. Major sanctions packages — particularly the Russia packages — drop in batches with hundreds of new entries at once. Between packages, the EEAS publishes smaller modifications: corrections, clarifications, and individual additions or delistings ordered by the General Court.

Verify the match against secondary identifiers in the entry — name transliterations, date of birth, place of birth, passport, and the underlying Council Regulation. EU listings often include Cyrillic and Arabic transliterations that introduce false positives at the Latin layer.

If the match is real, EU regulations require you to freeze any funds or economic resources belonging to the listed party and refuse to make any funds or economic resources available to them. Reporting goes to the relevant national competent authority — the Dutch Ministry of Finance, the German Bundesbank, the French DGT, and so on. The list of NCAs is published by the European Commission.