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This is a targeted Annex-XLII listing update under the standing EU Regulation 833/2014 Russia sanctions architecture, not a new numbered package. It adds 41 named vessels to the existing "shadow fleet" vessel list, triggering an automatic port-access ban (EU member-state ports and locks) and a ban on the provision of a broad category of maritime-transport-related services (insurance, flagging, technical services, etc.) to those vessels. The 41 vessels split into three functional buckets disclosed by the source: 36 for irregular/high-risk crude-oil and petroleum-product shipping (the core shadow-fleet sanctions-evasion pattern — ageing tankers with opaque ownership, flag-hopping, and AIS transponder manipulation used to keep Russian crude flowing above the G7 price cap), 5 for transporting stolen Ukrainian grain and cultural property out of occupied territory, and 1 (GT HONOR) for direct facilitation of sanctions circumvention.
Severity is set at 3 (moderate-high, not top-tier) because this is an incremental listing addition to an established mechanism rather than a new sanctions category or legal architecture — the EU has run recurring shadow-fleet vessel listing waves since UK OFSI's January 2025 action and the 17th/18th/19th packages. The quantified scale (41 named vessels, of a now much larger cumulative EU shadow-fleet list) supports severity_basis: quant.
the operational cost of Russian seaborne crude-oil exports above the G7 price cap.
designation actions in the same window (see 2025-01-13-uk-ofsi-russia-shadow-fleet-sanctions and 2025-12-18-us-ofac-iran-shadow-fleet-29-vessels-sakr-designations for the Iran-shadow-fleet parallel track), reinforcing a coordinated Western approach to sanctions-evasion shipping networks.
package (Regulation 2026/506, April 2026) and beyond.
disclosed in the sources reviewed (EUR-Lex machine summary + GTA); the full Annex XLII text would need direct retrieval for granular ship-level tracking.