This circular supplements the Club Circular issued on 8 August 2014. The most notable amendments add further to the prohibitions in Article 2, which we have noted below.

On 23 June 2014, the European Union published Regulation 692/2014 introducing trade sanctions in respect of goods originating in Crimea or Sevastopol and on the provision, directly or indirectly, of financing or financial assistance, as well as insurance and reinsurance, related to the import of such goods.

As members are already aware, on 24 November 2014, China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States (the P5+1) reached an agreement with Iran on its nuclear programme and jointly published a Joint Plan of Action (JPA) which included the implementation of a temporary suspension of certain trasportation and insurance prohibitions measures for a period of six months with effect from 20 January 2014.

People's attention is drawn to the growing concerns in regard to the spread of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa, in particular, Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.