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EU Council green-lights adding violation of EU sanctions to list of EU crimes

30/06/2022 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday, 30 June, the Council of the EU adopted a decision to add the violation of restrictive measures taken by the EU to the list of criminal offences that appear in the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (see EUROPE B12960A6) and asked the European Parliament to approve the draft text that the European Commission presented on 25 May (see EUROPE B12968A28). Once the European Parliament has given its consent and internal national procedures have...