Targeting the Russian transport sector
To restrict Russian industry's capacity to acquire key goods and to disrupt its road, aviation and maritime sectors, the EU has imposed
- a ban on exports, sales, supply or transfer of all aircraft, aircraft parts and equipment to Russia
- a ban on the provision of all related repair, maintenance or financial services
- closure of EU airspace to all Russian-owned, registered or controlled aircraft, including private jets of oligarchs
- restrictions on the export of maritime navigation goods and radio communication technology
- a full ban of Russian and Belorussian freight road operations working in the EU (certain exceptions will cover essentials, such as agriculture and food products, humanitarian aid as well as energy)
- a full ban on trucks with Russian trailers and semi-trailers from transporting goods to the EU. This will clamp down on the circumvention of the prohibition for Russian freight road operator to carry goods in the EU
- an entry ban on Russian-flagged vessels to EU ports (exceptions apply for medical, food, energy and humanitarian purposes)
- derecognition of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping at EU level and an entry ban to all ships certified by it, regardless of the flag they are flying
- prohibition of maritime services by all EU operators to the oil trade between Russia and third countries unless it falls under the oil price cap
- restricted access to financial services for Russian railways
- sanctions on several individuals linked to the transport sector – including the Russian Transport Minister
- prohibition to access EU ports for vessels that engage in ship-to-ship transfers suspected to be in breach of the Russian oil import ban or G7 Coalition price cap
- prohibition to access EU ports for vessels if a vessel does not notify the competent authority at least 48 hours in advance about a ship-to-ship transfer occurring within the Exclusive Economic Zone of a Member State or within 12 nautical miles from the baseline of that Member State's coast
- prohibition to access EU ports for vessels which manipulate or turn off their navigation tracking system when transporting Russian oil subject to the oil import ban or G7 price cap