{"id":580991,"date":"2026-09-24T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580991"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:04:58","slug":"eu-court-again-refuses-to-lift-sanctions-on-maz-and-belaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/eu-court-again-refuses-to-lift-sanctions-on-maz-and-belaz","title":{"rendered":"EU Court Again Refuses to Lift Sanctions on MAZ and BelAZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>OJSC BelAZ \u2013 Management Company of BelAZ-Holding and OJSC MAZ \u2013 Management Company of BelAvtoMAZ Holding sought to challenge the EU sanctions imposed on the companies in court, but the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld the restrictive measures.<\/p>\n<p>The cases were heard on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The court <a href=\"https:\/\/infocuria.curia.europa.eu\/tabs\/jurisprudence?lang=EN\">found justified<\/a> the EU Council\u2019s conclusion that MAZ is one of Belarus\u2019s largest state-owned vehicle manufacturers and a source of revenue for the Belarusian regime. The court considered these circumstances sufficient to conclude that the company supports the Aliaksandr Lukashenka regime.<\/p>\n<p>The court also noted that MAZ remains a state-owned company and continues to conduct substantial commercial activity, including in Russia. The ruling specifically mentions that in 2025 the EU Council cited MAZ\u2019s supplies of military trucks to the Russian army.<\/p>\n<p>BelAZ <a href=\"https:\/\/infocuria.curia.europa.eu\/tabs\/jurisprudence?lang=EN\">challenged<\/a> the extension of the sanctions, arguing, among other things, that the EU Council had erred in assessing its activities and violated its property rights and freedom to conduct business.<\/p>\n<p>The court found justified the conclusion that the company supports the Aliaksandr Lukashenka regime. In the ruling, BelAZ is described as a state-owned enterprise providing financial support to the regime.<\/p>\n<p>The court dismissed both actions and ordered the companies to pay the legal costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OJSC BelAZ \u2013 Management Company of BelAZ-Holding and OJSC MAZ \u2013 Management Company of BelAvtoMAZ Holding sought to challenge the EU sanctions imposed on the companies in court, but the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld the restrictive measures. The cases were heard on Sept. 23. The court found justified the EU Council\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":537155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab53c1ebb870.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"EU Court Again Refuses to Lift Sanctions on MAZ and BelAZ"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580992,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580991\/revisions\/580992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}