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All the sanctions lists, country by country

Is there one list with every sanctioned company? No — and believing the first tool that claims it is exactly how the wrong party slips through. There are nine lists that matter to an EU importer. Our free check searches all nine daily in one search; this page also lists the rest of the world's official lists, who publishes them, and when you would need them.

Machine-refreshed daily where the publisher allows it, curated quarterly where it does not. Every entry names its publisher and what a hit there means for you. Reference material, not legal advice; each answer carries the date it was verified.

The nine lists our free check searches

Which lists does the check search, and why these nine? searched daily

The EU consolidated list plus the EU's 833/2014 trade-restriction annexes, the UN list, the US OFAC SDN list, the UK list, the Swiss, Canadian and Australian consolidated lists, and Ukraine's State Register — together roughly 61,200 parties and 187,500 recorded spellings, including Cyrillic and Greek.

Why each one earns its place, in one line:

  • EU consolidated (freeze list) — directly binding on every EU business; no threshold, no intent required.
  • EU 833/2014 annexes — military end-users, banks, defence and oil sector: Rosneft, Transneft, Gazprom Neft and a thousand more that do not appear on the freeze list. Most free checkers skip this set; we load it from the consolidated EUR-Lex text.
  • UN Security Council — reaches you through EU implementation.
  • US OFAC SDN — one dollar through a US correspondent bank is enough.
  • UK (FCDO) — not EU law, but your bank screens it, and it lists Gulf intermediaries the EU has not.
  • Switzerland (SECO) — largely mirrors EU measures; relevant with any Swiss nexus.
  • Canada and Australia (DFAT) — national designations the EU lacks, across supply chains you may actually use.
  • Ukraine State Register (NSDC) — binding in Ukraine, and Ukrainian designations of shadow-fleet vessels and Russia-bound suppliers have repeatedly preceded EU and UK listings.

Each result names the list it came from and what a hit there means for you — because "listed" means something different on each of them. Run a name now; nothing is stored and nothing is emailed.

Source: the nine publishers' own sites, loaded by our daily pipeline; coverage statement per list on the sanctions page. Checked: 4 September 2026.

Is there one list with all sanctioned companies? no — and that is the trap

No. The EU freeze list, the EU trade-restriction annexes, the UN, US, UK, Swiss, Canadian, Australian and Ukrainian lists are separate legal instruments with separate scopes — and a party can be on one and not the others. A tool that searches "the sanctions list" searches one of them. The question that matters is which ones it skips.

The practical version of the trap:

  • Rosneft is not on the EU freeze list — its EU listing sits in the 833/2014 trade annexes. A check of "the EU list" returns nothing for the most-sanctioned oil company in the world.
  • Wissol, Abel Logistics, Adora Enterprise — real counterparties of European traders — are designated by the UK, not the EU. EU-list-only tools miss them; the bank's screening does not.
  • Shadow-fleet vessels appear on the Ukrainian register and the UK list months before anywhere else.

Commercial aggregators sell "one database" by combining these lists. The honest free version of that is what this site runs: nine official lists, one search, the ground shown per hit.

Source: the lists themselves, tested by name on each source. Checked: 4 September 2026.

What makes this check different from the others? the honest list

It is free without an account, searches nine official lists including the two most-skipped ones (EU 833 annexes, Ukraine), handles misspellings, legal-form differences and Cyrillic, shows the legal ground for every hit — and it never says "clean". The dated record for your file costs €29; monitoring a whole portfolio from €100 per month.
  • Nine lists, including the ones others skip. We have not found another free checker that searches the EU trade-restriction annexes and the Ukrainian register alongside the standard five. If you find one, tell us and we will link it.
  • Never "clean". A no-hit says: these spellings did not appear in these lists on this date. Every tool that says "not sanctioned" is promising something a name search cannot deliver — ownership above 50% is invisible in any name.
  • Near matches shown, not hidden — with the reason, so you can dismiss a namesake yourself instead of trusting a filter.
  • The document, not just the answer. What your bank, auditor or lawyer asks for is the dated record of which list versions you searched; that is the €29 product, not a subscription.
  • Built by a broker whose own bank flagged counterparties the then-available tools missed — the nine-list scope is not a feature list, it is the incident report.
Source: our own coverage, stated per list on the sanctions page and verifiable per search. Checked: 4 September 2026.

The rest of the world's official lists

Which other countries keep sanctions lists with names? who needs them

Several more states publish name-based lists. For most EU importers they matter only with a specific nexus — a counterparty, a payment currency, a transit route in that country. They are listed here with their publisher and what they cover, so you know they exist before you need one.
ListPublisherWhat it coversWhen you need it
France — Registre national des gelsDirection générale du TrésorPersons whose assets are frozen under French national (mainly terrorism) measures; published as machine-readable data, updated dailyFrench counterparties, French assets, terrorism-related screening beyond the EU list
Poland — national sanctions listMinistry of the Interior (MSWiA)Persons and entities sanctioned under Poland's own act, alongside the EU listsPolish counterparties and Polish-language screening duties
Netherlands — national terrorism listDutch government (Sanctieregeling terrorisme)Some 236 individuals and organisations designated nationally, in parallel to the EU terrorist listDutch businesses screening for the national list their own regulator enforces
Japan — METI Foreign End User ListMinistry of Economy, Trade and IndustryRoughly 835+ foreign entities flagged as export-control concerns; advisory, not a sanctions regime — but Japanese suppliers and banks treat it seriouslyExport controls on dual-use goods; Japanese counterparties asking for your diligence
Singapore — MAS designated listsMonetary Authority of SingaporeUN-designated persons plus domestic designations under Singapore's targeted financial sanctions frameworkSingapore counterparties, payments or transshipment through Singapore
South Korea — financial transaction restricted personsFinancial Services Commission / KoFIUPersons under domestic financial transaction restrictions, alongside UN measuresKorean counterparties and payments
US non-SDN listsOFACSectoral (SSSI), CAATSA and other directives restricting specific dealings without a full block — the Novateks of the world sit hereAny dollar leg in a transaction; often missed because they are not on the SDN list
EU terrorist listCouncil of the EUSeparate from the consolidated financial-sanctions list: persons and groups designated as terrorist organisationsScreening where terrorism coverage (not just Russia/freeze) matters

Why are these not in the free check? Each earns its place by answering the question an EU importer actually asks. The nine in the check do that; these seven answer narrower questions — and saying so honestly is worth more than a database row that implies coverage. Where one of these starts mattering to enough readers, it goes in — the way the Australian and Ukrainian lists did.

Source: the publishers' own sites (DG Trésor, Overheid.nl, METI, MAS, KoFIU, OFAC, Council of the EU). Checked: 4 September 2026.

Which of these lists actually binds me? three answers

As an EU business: the EU lists bind you directly — both the freeze list and the 833/2014 annexes. The UN list reaches you through EU implementation. Everything else — US, UK, Swiss, Canadian, Australian, Ukrainian — binds you only through a nexus, but reaches you anyway through your bank, your currency or your counterparty's own compliance.

The short table of what a hit means for you:

  • EU (freeze + 833 annexes): prohibited, today, regardless of size and intent.
  • UN: implemented in EU regulations — in practice you meet it on the EU list.
  • US: dollars, US persons, US-origin goods or software anywhere in the chain.
  • UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Ukraine: not binding on you as law — but your bank screens the UK list, and counterparties inside those jurisdictions are bound and will ask you about it.

That is why the check searches all nine: not because all nine bind you, but because the one that stops your payment is not always the one that binds you.

Source: Regulation (EU) 269/2014 and 833/2014; national lists as published. Checked: 4 September 2026.

Where to go next

Run the free check — nine lists, one search, no account. Already traded with a listed party? The steps, the penalties and when to call a lawyer: what to do now. A portfolio to re-screen at every list update: monitoring from €100 per month.