The European Commission is set to adopt on 15 July its seventh package of sanctions against Russia, which will add a ban to the import of Russian gold and alter current restrictive measures to avoid hampering food exports, according to a report by Reuters citing two officials.
The new measures are considered "a maintenance and alignment package," one of the officials said, referring to it as a "sixth-and-a-half" set of sanctions for its limited scope compared with previous rounds that hit Russian oil or coal.
The draft package includes a ban on imports of Russian gold into the EU, a proposal first reported by Reuters in June and which would come into force with the adoption of the new sanctions.
The EU Commission is expected to adopt the new measures later on 15 July according to the two officials who were not named.
