Check your partners against the EU sanctions list.
Upload your list of customers and suppliers as Excel or CSV. Every name is compared in your browser with the EU consolidated financial sanctions list. For each match you see why it was flagged and which version of the list was used.
Check a partner list
Drop an Excel or CSV file here..xlsx or .csv, one column with company or person names, up to 5,000 rows. The file never leaves your browser.
EU list: European Commission file of 22 September 2026.
- Free
- The whole list at once, up to 5,000 rows, no account.
- What is checked
- Only the EU financial sanctions list. Other lists are below.
- Your file
- Read in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
- Result
- Score 0 to 100, reason for the match, list version, as CSV.
Result
| Row | Name in your list | Score | Entry in the EU list | Reason |
|---|
Tomorrow the list may look different.
The EU adds to and changes the list continuously. This check is valid for the version named above, not for tomorrow. That is why we are considering daily monitoring:
- Your partner list would be checked every day against the new version of the EU list.
- A log would record when, against which Commission file and with what result the check ran.
- For a new match you would get an e-mail, with no partner names in the e-mail.
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How the score is calculated.
Both names, yours and the one from the EU list, are prepared the same way: accents are unified (Müller, Mueller and Muller are the same), Cyrillic and Greek script is transliterated into Latin, legal forms such as Ltd, LLC, GmbH, AG, s.r.o., OOO or “Joint Stock Company” are removed, and common spelling variants are aligned (Iwanow and Ivanov). Word order does not matter.
The score is the highest value from three rules, and the result names the rule:
- Name matches as a whole: how many words of both names correspond to each other.
- Name from the EU list is fully contained in the partner name: for example a listed person’s name inside the name of a sole trader’s business. At most 90.
- Partner name is fully contained in the name from the EU list: for example “Technopromexport Ltd” against a longer listed name. At most 90.
A word with at least 5 letters may differ by one letter, from 9 letters by two. Shorter words must match exactly. A single surname in a company name is not enough for a match with a listed person whose name has several words.
A match is a prompt to review, not proof. No match is not a clearance.
Measurement of 26 September 2026, threshold 88
- 0 of 500real German company names from the public LEI register (GLEIF) triggered a match. These names were not used while tuning the rules.
- 0 of 200made-up, typical names of small German companies (for example “Kaya Transporte GmbH”) triggered a match.
- 98 of 100altered names from the EU list were recognised (swapped order, missing letter, German transliteration, different legal form). The two missed ones had the error in a short part of the name (Abdul, Khalil).
We have not yet measured English, Slovak or other non-German company names separately. The example list on this page has 16 names and gives exactly 2 matches, both with names that really are on the EU list.
What we do not recognise: typos in short words, very different transliterations (Mohammed and Muhammad are not treated as the same), names only in Arabic or Chinese script, aliases that are not on the list.
What is checked and what is not.
Checked is only the consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions (asset freezes), from the European Commission’s Financial Sanctions Files. You see the exact version of the file above and in the result. Only the Official Journal of the EU is authoritative; the file may lag behind it.
Not checked:
- the UN Security Council sanctions list itself (listings the EU has adopted are in the EU list),
- OFAC (USA), OFSI (United Kingdom) and SECO (Switzerland),
- sectoral restrictions, for example under Regulation (EU) No 833/2014, nor export controls, embargoes and goods lists,
- addresses, dates of birth, registration numbers and vessels.
The free official FiSaLis search (IT.NRW, Germany) searches the same EU list, one name per search: finanz-sanktionsliste.de.
Common questions.
Is this legal advice?
No. The tool compares names. It does not replace your own check or legal advice and does not say that you have met your obligations.
Is my file sent anywhere?
No. The file is read and checked in your browser. Apart from the page itself, the browser only loads the EU list from us (about 2 MB, about 420 kB compressed). We count anonymously only that a check took place and roughly how many rows and matches there were, without cookies (Umami on our own server).
What should I do if there is a match?
Compare the entry with your own records: legal form, registered office, registration number, and for persons the date of birth. Open the legal act with the link in the result. If the match is confirmed, contact the competent authority; the European Commission publishes a list of national competent authorities.
How up to date is the list?
As up to date as the file named above, with its date and SHA-256 checksum. The Commission publishes new files after changes; on this page the file is not yet refreshed automatically.
My Excel file will not open.
Supported are .xlsx and .csv. Save old .xls files in Excel with “Save As” as .xlsx or “CSV UTF-8”. The first sheet is read.
Source and notice.
Source of the list: European Commission, consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions (Financial Sanctions Files). © European Union. Reuse under Decision 2011/833/EU. The data is only read and compared, not modified. The Commission is not responsible for this check and has not reviewed it.
ARLing s. r. o. is a software company in Bratislava, not a law firm and not an authority.