News item | 11-07-2025 | 15:00
The Council of Ministers today agreed to a bill to strengthen the implementation and enforcement of international sanction measures. Because the sanction instruments are expected to become increasingly relevant, but also becomes more complex in the future, it is important that Dutch legislation is modernized-and is therefore future-proof. Foreign Minister Veldkamp sends the bill on international sanction measures to the Advisory Department of the Council of State.
Sanctions help to protect international peace and security, and to combat terrorism, for example. Sanctions work best if everyone adheres to it. That is why the government wants to ensure better compliance and enforcement of international sanctions.
The current sanction law from 1977 is the link between international sanctions and national implementation. This law has hardly been adjusted in the past decade, while the size and complexity of sanctions have increased. With the bill, the government wants to increase the effectiveness of sanctions by improving implementation and enforcement.
The bill for international sanction measures consists of various parts, including (i) more options for administrative enforcement in addition to criminal law, (ii) improved principles for information exchange, (iii) a central sanction reporting point, (IV) the possibility of placing notes in certain public registers in a relationship with current supervision, (V) the expansion of the current supervision of the current supervision of the current supervision of the current supervision of the current supervision of the current supervision of the current supervision of legal or organizations. and (VO) an arrangement for the management and administration of certain (long -term) frozen credits and economic means.
With the bill, the Cabinet gives substance to the recommendations in this area from the final report of the National Coordinator Sanctienaloming and Enforcement from 2022.