Australian autonomous sanctions
Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
From 4 June 1992, Australia has implemented targeted autonomous sanctions against individuals associated with the former Milosevic regime in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. These sanctions target individuals indicted or suspected of war crimes during the Balkan wars in the early 1990s.
Sanctions currently cover:
- Targeted financial sanctions (implemented by the Reserve Bank of Australia)
- Restrictions on financial transactions involving individuals:
- indicted or convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and by domestic courts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia;
- subject to Interpol arrest warrants for war crimes have also been included;
- known supporters of the former Milosevic regime; and
- individuals suspected of assisting ICTY indictees at large.
- Travel restrictions
- Restrictions on visas to travel to Australia by individuals:
- indicted or convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and by domestic courts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia;
- subject to Interpol arrest warrants for war crimes have also been included;
- known supporters of the former Milosevic regime; and
- individuals suspected of assisting ICTY indictees at large.
Migration Regulations 1994, Regulation 2.43(1)(a)(i)(A) and Public Interest Criterion 4003(a)