Today the Council of the European Union approved the eleventh package of sanctions against Russia. Among the prohibitions imposed, for countering the proliferation of operations implemented to circumvent the ban on the transport of crude oil and products by sea Russian oil, Brussels has banned access to EU ports vessels transshipping these goods from ship to ship and to block these naval units if the authorities competent have reasonable grounds to suspect that the ship is violating the ban on imports of crude oil into the EU, and Russian petroleum products by sea or transporting these purchased products at a price higher than the maximum agreed by the international coalition for the ceiling on the prices of these products transported by sea.

A similar prohibition will be applied to those ships with respect to for which the competent authorities have reasonable grounds for suspect that they are operating illegally transporting crude oil, and Russian petroleum products, for example by turning off or disabling the their AIS transponder reporting the position of the vessel, Automatic identification of the ship which, as provided for by the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), must be kept in operation at all times.

In addition, the Council of the European Union has extended the prohibition of road freight in the EU contained in trailers or semi-trailers registered in Russia even if transported from trucks registered outside Russia.