PRINT
OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL
Syrian Sanctions Regulations
31 CFR part 542
GENERAL LICENSE NO. 21B
Authorizing Certain Activities to Respond to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
(a) Authorizing certain COVID-19-related transactions prohibited by the Syrian Sanctions Regulations. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this general license, the following transactions and activities that are prohibited by the Syrian Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 542 (SySR), are authorized through 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time, June 14, 2024:
(1) Exportation of services related to COVID-19. All transactions and activities related to the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, of services to Syria that are related to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of COVID-19 (including research or clinical studies relating to COVID-19); and
(2) COVID-19-related transactions involving certain blocked persons. All transactions...
Click the appropriate link below for access to this file.
Click the appropriate link below for access to this file.
* GL amended on 6-10-22 and 6-14-23 to extend the expiration date.
1) Background -Notes Common to the Three “COVID GLs” Issued 6-17-2021
On 6-17-2021, OFAC issued Added Venezuela GL 39, Syria GL 21 and Iran GL N. All three GLs (collectively “the COVID GLs”) are designed to address the same problem—i.e. OFAC-administered sanctions’ prevention of certain COVID-related trade—but the GLs are scoped differently in light of the nature of the three sanctions regimes to which they pertain.
2) Interpretive Issues Common to the Three COVID GLs
Interpretive issues connected to the GLs can be divided between those that are common to all three GLs, and those that are unique to each individual GL. OFAC’s FAQs issued concurrent with the issuance of the GLs,...