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these sanctions types than the regime-specific political and security situation that triggered the sanctions in the first place. Implementation guidance
should be targeted at this audience, and should be designed accordingly:
that is, measure by measure, rather than regime by regime. A single Council
guidance on, for example, implementing arms embargoes, could still set out
the different exemption arrangements applicable to each regime.
To facilitate effective implementation of Council sanctions at the
national level, the Council needs a mechanism to allow for collective, crosscutting discussion and decision-making on the technical administration of
its sanctions regimes, including the issuing of implementation guidance.
4. The Security Council should establish a standing Sanctions Technical Committee (STC), comprised of the sanctions experts from the missions of each
Council Member. Responsible for ensuring the consistent interpretation
of and implementation guidance for the same sanctions measures across
different sanctions regimes, the STC would provide uniform, best practice administration of UN sanctions, and provide a forum to consider
expert group recommendations across regimes. The STC should propose
a standard set of guidelines for the work of all sanctions committees, and
sanctions committees should only deviate from these guidelines where
provisions of relevant resolutions require it.
5. The STC should, in collaboration with sanctions committees, prepare and publish consolidations of each type of sanctions measure in a clear and common
format, regularly update them, and consider the adoption of implementation guidance to accompany each of these consolidations.
6. The Subsidiary Organs Branch should organise its support to sanctions committees functionally to ensure uniformity in the administration of measures
across regimes, and strengthen its analytical support to Member States and
expert groups. Individual teams would deal with arms embargoes, asset
freezes, travel bans, list maintenance issues (inclusion/removal of individuals/entities from sanctions list for all committees). The Branch has taken
this step in relation to the maintenance/publication/dissemination of a
single consolidated list of individuals and entities subject to all Security
Council sanctions.
7. The Subsidiary Organs Branch should organise contact groups according
to expertise (e.g., arms, financial, natural resources) across expert groups to
exchange ideas and develop recommendations to improve technical implementation of the sanctions measures. Such contact groups would also
enable cross-sharing of information and techniques.
The consultations also highlighted the evident and widespread need
for more information regarding sanctions, in a format accessible to national
and private actors. Implementation Assistance Notices created by sanctions