{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/443",
  "legislation_title": "The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-eu-exit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "text": "(1) The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 are amended as follows.\n(2) After regulation 31 (circumventing etc prohibitions), insert—\n“Trade: end-use control\n31A (1) This regulation applies where—\n(a) a United Kingdom person (“P”) has been informed by the Secretary of State that goods or any technology related to the export of the goods (or both) are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for export, transfer or use in Venezuela, or to a person connected with Venezuela, and\n(b) the goods or technology in question are subject to this Part and are not for the time being specified in—\n(i) Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008, or\n(ii) Annex 1 of the Dual-Use Regulation.\n(2) Subject to Part 6 (Exceptions and licences), P shall not—\n(a) export the goods in question, or\n(b) transfer the technology in question.”\n(3) In regulation 42 (“relevant firm”), for “10,000 euros”, in each place it occurs, substitute “£10,000”.\n(4) Omit regulation 57 (trade offences in CEMA: modification of penalty).\n(5) In regulation 66 (notices)—\n(a) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) The notice may be given to the person by electronic means.”;\n(b) in paragraph (4), omit “, including by electronic means,”.\n(6) In Schedule 4 (Treasury licences: purposes)—\n(a) in paragraph 1 (interpretation), in sub-paragraph (1), in the definition of “frozen funds or economic resources”, omit the words from “, and” to the end;\n(b) for paragraph 9 (prior obligations), substitute—\n“Prior obligations\n9 To enable the satisfaction of an obligation of a designated person (whether arising under a contract, other agreement or otherwise), provided that—\n(a) the obligation arose before the date on which the person became a designated person, and\n(b) no payments are made to another designated person, whether directly or indirectly.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2019/135; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2022/818 and S.I. 2024/1157."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/3231; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2015/940, S.I. 2017/697, S.I. 2018/165, S.I. 2018/939, S.I. 2019/989, S.I. 2021/586, S.I. 2022/1042, S.I. 2023/302, S.I. 2024/346, S.I. 2025/532 and S.I. 2025/1197."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2022/410, S.I. 2023/302, S.I. 2023/695, S.I. 2023/1048, S.I. 2024/346, S.I. 2025/532 and S.I. 2025/1195."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/443/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:02:20.897437+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}