Professor Graham Butler:

I do not keep on top of every legal act the Council adopts but, as far as I am aware, there has been extensive adoption of legal acts by the Council with respect to natural and legal persons following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia. These are targeted in what they can do. They are so-called smart sanctions. I do not believe it is a unilateral ban on all persons but I am open to correction on that by my colleagues. I should add that the sanctions that have been applied are adopted EU legal acts not individual member state acts like the one we are talking about here.