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Read the regimes.
Read restrictive measures across EU, UN, U.S., UK, and partner regimes — article by article, list by list, regime against regime.
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An independent, non-partisan foundation working on the implementation, design, and accessibility of restrictive measures.
Making sanctions
workable
for the firms that must comply, and the states that design them. The Institute for Restrictive Measures tracks translates restrictive measures into actionable insights. The Institute is an independent research and advisory body bridging policymakers, compliance officers, and exporters with the goal to support sanctions, that are credible, consistent, and capable of being implemented on the ground.
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Landscapes
Enter a landscape.
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European Union
27 Member States
27 Member States
EU.
The European Union sanctions landscape.
Council regulations and decisions, the consolidated list, and member-state implementing measures — read article-by-article across all 27 jurisdictions.
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United Nations
Global · UNSC
Global · UNSC
UN.
The United Nations sanctions landscape.
Security Council resolutions, sanctions committees, monitoring panels, and the consolidated list — the baseline architecture from which most regional regimes inherit.
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United States
OFAC · Treasury
OFAC · Treasury
US.
The United States sanctions landscape.
OFAC programs, the SDN list, secondary sanctions exposure, general and specific licences — the executive orders and IEEPA actions that define extra-territorial reach.
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The Institute
Between policy intent and operational reality.
The Institute for Restrictive Measures makes restrictive measures implementable — turning legal regimes into tools, methods, and evidence for the firms that must comply, and the rule-makers that design and enforce them.
We are a Europe-first applied research institute for sanctions implementation. We translate restrictive measures into practical tools, decision paths, and evidence standards for compliance, trade, and finance teams, and feed implementation lessons back to the public institutions whose text gives those measures effect.
We are not a law firm and not primarily a vendor. IRM is a public-good research institute that builds the methods, tools, and evidence infrastructure needed to make sanctions credible, proportionate, enforceable, and useful for economic security — bridging the gap between the text adopted in Brussels, New York, or Washington and the desks where it must take effect.
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Operational Principles
Four steps from text to practice.
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Translate the text.
Translate legal text into operational controls, workflows, and plain-language guidance that compliance, trade, and finance teams can actually run.
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Equip operators.
Equip operators with open-core tools, templates, screeners, trackers, and training — usable by firms of every size, not just the largest desks.
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Feed back the field.
Feed field evidence back to rule-makers so future measures are clearer, more enforceable, and more proportionate to the harms they target.
Feed Back