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On 7 December 2020, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999, which establishes a framework for targeted restrictive measures to address serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide.
Human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.
States have the primary responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil human rights, including ensuring compliance with international human rights law.
Human rights violations and abuses worldwide remain of great concern, including the significant involvement of non-State actors in human rights abuses globally as well as the severity of many such acts.
Such acts violate the principles and threaten the objectives of the Union’s external action.
On 9 December 2019, the Council establishes a Union regime of general scope for restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses.
This Decision establishes a framework for targeted restrictive measures to address serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide.
The application of such targeted restrictive measures will be consistent with the Union’s overall strategy in this area and enhance the Union’s capacity to promote respect for human rights.
What Human Rights abuses are covered?
The rules apply to:
genocide;
crimes against humanity;
the following serious human rights violations or abuses:
(i)torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
(ii)slavery,
(iii)extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings,
(iv)enforced disappearance of persons,(v)arbitrary arrests or detentions;
(d)other human rights violations or abuses, including but not limited to the following, in so far as those violations or abuses are widespread, systematic or are otherwise of serious concern as regards the objectives of the common foreign and security policy set out in Article 21 TEU: (i)trafficking in human beings, as well as abuses of human rights by migrant smugglers as referred to in this Article,
(ii)sexual and gender-based violence,
(iii)violations or abuses of freedom of peaceful assembly and of association,
(iv)violations or abuses of freedom of opinion and expression,
(v)violations or abuses of freedom of religion or belief.
That Decision provides for the freezing of funds and economic resources of, and the prohibition to make funds and economic resources available to, natural or legal persons, entities or bodies responsible for, providing support to or otherwise involved in serious human rights violations or abuses, as well as those associated with the natural and legal persons, entities and bodies covered.
Natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to the restrictive measures are listed in the Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999.
The names and other relevant data concerning natural and legal persons, entities and bodies whose funds and economic resources are to be frozen if listed in Annex I to this Regulation.
COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2020/1999
of 7 December 2020
concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses
COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2020/1998
of 7 December 2020
concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses
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