EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions Files

Use in your agent

Load the EU sanctions CSV into pandas and Parquet. Checked against the provider's documentation on Nov 2, 2026.

Access

• The Commission's CSV and XML snapshots download without an account or key.
• The checked CSV 1.0 distribution is labelled CC BY 4.0 in the data portal metadata.

Request

curl -o eu-sanctions.csv 'https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fsd/fsf/public/files/csvFullSanctionsList/content?token=dG9rZW4tMjAxNw'

Format

Semicolon-delimited UTF-8 CSV with file date, entity and linked-record identifiers, subject type, legal basis and programme, names, remarks, addresses, birth details, identity documents, citizenship and EU reference number.

Load into pandas and Parquet

Needs Python 3 with requests, pandas and pyarrow.

"""EU consolidated financial-sanctions CSV -> pandas -> Parquet. No key."""
import io
import requests
import pandas as pd

URL = "https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fsd/fsf/public/files/csvFullSanctionsList/content?token=dG9rZW4tMjAxNw"
r = requests.get(URL, timeout=300)
r.raise_for_status()
df = pd.read_csv(io.BytesIO(r.content), sep=";", low_memory=False)
df.to_parquet("eu_financial_sanctions.parquet", index=False)
print(len(df), "rows", df["Entity_logical_id"].nunique(), "unique entity IDs",
      "file date", df["Date_file"].iloc[0])

Run by us on 2026-11-02 (python 3.13.5 | pandas 3.1.0 | pyarrow 26.0.0 | requests 2.34.2). Result: 44043 rows 6269 unique entity IDs file date 23/10/2026

Limits

• Rate limit: Not stated.
• The provider declares daily updates but warns that the dataset may lag Official Journal publications.
• The files are complete snapshots, not query responses or a dated change-history service.

Quirks

• The CSV uses semicolons, begins with a UTF-8 byte-order mark and repeats Entity_logical_id across linked names, addresses and other attributes.
• Date_file is the snapshot's data date; it can be earlier than the download date.
• Only Official Journal information is authentic, so preserve Leba_url and EU_ref_num for verification.

Terms and attribution

• The checked CSV 1.0 distribution is labelled CC BY 4.0.
• Reuse requires appropriate credit and an indication of changes; identifiable-person or third-party material can involve additional rights.

Sources

• https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/datasets/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions: “Only the information published in the Official Journal of the EU is deemed authentic.”
• https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/datasets/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions: “Please note that the information in this dataset may not be fully up to date because updates are delayed compared to the relevant publications in the EU's Official Journal.”
• https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/datasets/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions: “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International”
• https://commission.europa.eu/legal-notice_en: “This means that reuse is allowed, provided appropriate credit is given and changes are indicated.”