In addition to providing guidance on specific sanctions frameworks, the Australian Sanctions Office (ASO) provides information on a number of sanctions-related issues that span multiple frameworks or that may affect specific industries.
If you have any questions regarding the guidance notes on this page, you can use the Contact Us form or email at sanctions@DFAT.gov.au on Pax to ask a general question.
Please note, the guidance and advisory notes are not legal advice and the ASO does not provide legal advice. You should consider seeking independent legal advice to assess whether your proposed activities may be affected by, or require authorisation under, Australian sanctions laws.
Sanctions Compliance Toolkit & the Sanctions Risk Assessment Tool
The Sanctions Compliance Toolkit and the Sanctions Risk Assessment Tool provides a comprehensive guide aimed at helping regulated entities and legal professionals navigate the complexities of Australian sanctions laws. These guidance notes offer a structured approach to compliance by outlining key principles, risk management strategies, and best practices that regulated entities can adopt to help ensure they do not contravene sanctions.
Guidance Notes
Guidance notes detail obligations for complying with Australian sanctions law.
- Artificial intelligence and quantum technology sector
- Cyber sanctions
- Dealing with assets owned or controlled by designated persons or entities
- Digital currency exchange sector
- Employment with designated persons or entities
- Export sanctioned goods – Russia and Specified Regions of Ukraine
- Financial transactions involving designated persons and entities
- Fintech and the DeFi sector
- Import, purchase or transport of firearms and other 'arms or related materials' from sanctioned countries
- Maritime sector
- Remittance service providers
- Reporting a sanctions contravention
- Sanctions compliance for Australian Government Agencies and employees
- Sanctions compliance for universities
- The import, purchase and transport of transformed and de minimis quantities of Russia-origin petroleum gases, oil and refined petroleum products
Advisory Notes
Advisory notes are to provide information on potential sanctions threats.
- Advisory from the Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO) Tasks Force – Russian sanctions evasion
- Australian export sector, Russian evasion methods
- Common high priority items for Russia
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Information Technology (IT) workers
- Holders of political office
- Information technology sector
- Low risk sectors
- Oil Price Cap (OPC) compliance and enforcement alert
- Touring companies, musicians and sports professionals