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Addressing impunity through EU sanctions, including the EU Global Human Rights sanctions regime (so-called ‘EU Magnitsky Act’)

TA-10-2026-0015 · P10_TA(2026)0015 · PE775.385

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Parliament's resolution on the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EU Magnitsky Act) reiterates support for the tool and calls for its review and strengthening to fight impunity for serious human rights violations worldwide. It demands more effective, coherent and geographically balanced listings, including for corruption, transnational repression and digital surveillance, and better enforcement by member states. It calls for enhanced transparency, civil society involvement, parliamentary scrutiny, and measures to prevent circumvention, such as clearer guidance and cross-listing.

Key points

  1. Reiterates support for the EUGHRSR as an indispensable tool to hold accountable perpetrators, enablers and beneficiaries of serious human rights violations, including immediate family members.
  2. Urges the EU to activate its Blocking Statute to counter sanctions against International Criminal Court judges and staff.
  3. Calls for a comprehensive impact assessment of the EUGHRSR and its review based on findings, with continuous listing reviews at least every 12 months.
  4. Calls for extending the regime to cover large-scale corruption and abuse of state procurement, and for explicit listings for digital surveillance, spyware exports and environmental destruction.
  5. Calls for more listings for transnational repression and a working definition of it, including non-state proxies.
  6. Condemns member states allowing sanctioned individuals to enter EU territory and urges full compliance, with Commission enforcement.
  7. Calls for harmonised implementation, stronger asset freeze capacity, and common EU-level monitoring and enforcement mechanisms.
  8. Urges the EEAS to define legal pathways to use interest from frozen assets for victims and to explore procedures for ill-gotten gains.
  9. Calls for listing individuals indicted by international courts and correcting geographical and thematic imbalances, including more political and military leaders.
  10. Proposes a structured civil society consultation mechanism, a dedicated EEAS contact point, and a budgetary window for EEAS capacity.
  11. Calls for a complementary role for Parliament in proposing cases and annual reports on sanctions decisions.
  12. Calls for explicit guidance on prohibited support, including non-financial assistance, and for reviewing derogation clauses to prevent circumvention.

Who is affected

  • Individuals and entities listed or potentially listed under the EUGHRSR, including their family members and associates.
  • EU member states, which must comply with and enforce sanctions uniformly.
  • The European External Action Service, which is urged to increase capacity and engage with civil society.
  • Civil society organisations and whistleblowers, who would gain a structured consultation mechanism.

Figures and deadlines

  • 168 listings under the EUGHRSR as at 4 November 2025 (131 individuals and 37 entities).
  • Listings to be reviewed at least once every 12 months.
  • Regime extended until 8 December 2026.

Legal basis: Articles 2, 3(5), 21, 23, 29 and 31(2) TEU and Article 215 TFEU.