Navigating Compliance: Expert Insights on Sanctions & Export Controls

The compliance headache at the top of every exporter’s risk register: sanctions and export controls.
The rules are moving faster than companies can keep up with. The EU expanded its dual-use control list in late 2025 (semiconductors, advanced computing, biotech) and the Netherlands added national measures on top. Sanctions designations are at record levels, and regulators have shifted from asking “do you have a policy?” to “can your systems actually prevent a violation?”

For 30 practical minutes, we bring together two perspectives on staying compliant without stalling your business:
→ Floor Koops, sanctions & export-controls lawyer at Bennink Dunin-Wasowicz, with rare dual experience from inside a major international bank and in private practice. She knows both why a transaction gets blocked and how to build a compliance programme that works.
→ Ruud Altena, former Head of trade compliance at Braskem, with 15+ years keeping a global manufacturer’s goods moving across borders, on the day-to-day reality of classification, licensing and due diligence.
The discussion will be facilitated by Andrea Cardoso (LL.M.)

No slideware, no marketing, just practical insight and a live Q&A.

🗓 Friday 26 June 2026 | 12:00–12:30 CET | Online (Teams)
Registration link in first comment.

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