The European Parliament has recently issued a report on EU sanctions implementation and monitoring. It includes recommendations to reinforce the EU’s capacities to implement and monitor sanctions. The think tank writes that the EU should agree on a joint definition of what constitutes a competent national authority, ensure adequate guidance for the EU’s economic operators, enhance the involvement of implementation and enforcement expertise in the planning phase of sanctions regimes, and design a new horizontal sanctions regime to counter circumvention. You can access the think tank summary and the report here.