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Israel Weapons of Mass Destruction Banned Entities List #167

Closed FrederikOpenSanctions closed 2 weeks ago

FrederikOpenSanctions commented 6 months ago

Data URL

https://www.gov.il/en/pages/declared_elements_list

Publisher

Israel Ministry of Finance

Publisher country/territory code

IL

Type of data

Sanctions (Governments barring specific engagement e.g. financial transaction with these entities)

Coverage region

region:Asia/Pacific

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jbothma commented 1 month ago

Discussing in slack:

as far as I can tell, the main difference between https://github.com/opensanctions/crawler-planning/issues/167 and UN Resolutions 2231 and 1718 is that they add the following columns, for which the value is always July 12th 2018 or April 1, 2018 (the latter only in the permanent column)

  • "The date of adoption of the declaration in Israel(temporary automatic adoption)"
  • "The date of adoption of the declaration in Israel (permanent adoption)"

it almost sounds like there should be more, but they're not in the linked files. shall we just include this excel file with these as start dates? Should the program perhaps be Prevention of Distribution and Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction Law – 2018? it looks like these resolutions are not in UN SC consolidated?

jbothma commented 1 month ago

We noticed that the Iran sanctions regime was not part of the UN SC consolidated list any more:

The restrictive measures contained in paragraphs 3, 4 and 6 (c) and (d) of Annex B to resolution 2231 (2015) applied until the date eight years after Adoption Day of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Adoption Day occurred on 18 October 2015.

As a consequence, in connection with paragraphs 6 (c) and (d), the Secretariat has removed on 19 October 2023 from the Security Council website the list of 23 individuals and 61 entities subject to the aforementioned restrictive measures

https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/note-correspondents/2023-10-19/note-correspondents-measures-imposed-annex-b-of-resolution-2231-%282015%29-concerning-the-islamic-republic-of-iran%C2%A0scroll-down-for-french-version

Considering the number of other lists still including these entities, and the fact that trade with iranian entities is banned for Israeli citizens generally, it seems most prudent to use the list in its current form rather than deferring to the UN SC list. We haven't gone into a deep analysis of the israeli legislation listed here but it could very well still require the ban on these entities.