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How suspected breaches of trade sanctions are assessed by the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI)

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ByDepartment for Business and Tradeivory_comet_35dadc

OTSI's enforcement powers as set out in The Trade, Aircraft and Shipping Sanctions (Civil Enforcement) Regulations 2024.

Adapted edition

Sanctions compliance
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
6
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-16
Category
Governance & assurance
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

OTSI's enforcement powers as set out in The Trade, Aircraft and Shipping Sanctions (Civil Enforcement) Regulations 2024. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • 1. Which breaches OTSI can investigate and enforce
  • 2. Who OTSI can investigate
  • 3. Establishing whether a breach has occurred
  • 4. Determining the severity of the breach
  • Determining whether the breach was intentional
  • 5. Enforcement outcomes
  • Warning letter
  • Referral to your regulator
  • Referral to other organisations
  • Public disclosure
  • Monetary penalty
  • Referral to HMRC
  • 6. Mitigating and aggravating factors
  • Mitigating factors may include but are not limited to:
  • Aggravating factors may include but are not limited to:
  • Voluntary disclosure
Source and licence
How suspected breaches of trade sanctions are assessed by the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI)

Department for Business and Trade

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionDepartment for Business and Trade, ‘How suspected breaches of trade sanctions are assessed by the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI)’ (updated 31 July 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.

Version history
  • v1.016/09/2026
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