EU sanctions, formally restrictive measures, are the prohibitions the European Union adopts against states, entities and individuals, and the consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions is published as a public dataset. For a desk inside the EU, a counterparty tied to a designated person is a legal question rather than a matter of risk appetite. The same address can be clean under one jurisdiction's list and designated under another, so which list applies to you decides what the result means.
The European Commission publishes an overview of EU restrictive measures explaining what the instruments are and how they are adopted. The EU Sanctions Map shows them regime by regime, and the consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions is available as an open dataset.
The list is built around persons, groups and entities rather than around wallets. Where an address is attributable to a designated entity, the exposure that address carries is something a European desk has to be able to explain to its supervisor, whether or not the string itself was ever printed in an annex.
Because jurisdiction decides the answer, and most operators serve customers in more than one. An exchanger in Warsaw settling for a client in Istanbul sits under EU measures on one side of the deal and not the other. A screening result that names the sanctions connection lets you make that call deliberately instead of discovering it during a bank review.
What the measures actually require of a business is set out on the Commission's own overview page, and the consolidated list is where the designations themselves live. The word that does the work in crypto is "indirectly": value reaches you through intermediaries by default, so the question is rarely whether you dealt with a designated person face to face. Check the counterparty address before you accept it — the Telegram bot gives you three free checks a day and returns the verdict in seconds.
| List | Publisher | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Restrictive measures overview | European Commission | What EU sanctions are and how they work |
| EU Sanctions Map | EU | Measures presented regime by regime |
| Consolidated list dataset | EU open data | Persons, groups and entities under EU financial sanctions |
| UK Sanctions List | UK Government | Sole official source of UK designations since 28 January 2026, replacing the withdrawn OFSI consolidated list page |
The UK row matters even for EU-only operators, because a lot of screening documentation still points at the old OFSI page. If your policy names it, the reference is stale.
The result names sanctions as a category in plain language rather than as a code, and pairs the verdict word — CLEAN through CRITICAL — with a recommendation of Proceed, Caution, Review or Reject. The decision drivers spell out what was found, so a compliance officer reading the result second-hand knows whether the finding sits on the address or somewhere behind it.
For teams, the workspace turns the same category into a queue filter and a signed report you can attach to a case file or hand to a bank. Limits and plans are on the pricing page.
The EU consolidated list is organised around persons, groups and entities. Where an address belongs to a designated entity, the obligation follows the entity — which is why attribution, not just string matching, is what a screening result has to give you.
The consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions is published as an open dataset on data.europa.eu, and the EU Sanctions Map presents the measures regime by regime.
No. That page has been withdrawn. Since 28 January 2026 the UK Sanctions List is the sole official source of UK designations, so screening policies that still cite the old page need updating.
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Scope is a question for the Commission's overview page and your own counsel. Commercially they reach you through your counterparties either way: EU banks and exchanges apply them, so an exposure those institutions cannot accept becomes your settlement problem too.
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