EU Council Regulation 2022/1903 — trade restrictions extended to non-government-controlled Kherson and Zaporizhzhia

Mechanism

Reg. 2022/1903 redefines the "specified territories" of Reg. 2022/263 as the non-government-controlled areas of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. The EU import ban on goods originating there, and the export ban on Annex II goods and technology (transport, telecoms, energy, resource extraction) plus related investment and financing limits, now apply to all four.

Downstream implications

• Closes a route for Russian-controlled output from occupied southern Ukraine (coal, crude, agricultural goods) into EU markets.
• Severity is qualitative: the source discloses no trade-value figure.

Open questions

• Exact OJ L 259I article text was not retrieved directly; scope is taken from the Council release and the consolidated 2022/263.