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That is not what The Times reported.

What The Times did say was that the blog EU Sanctions reported Gibraltar had updated its EU sanctions regulations, which it did on 3rd July, just before the ship was stopped. I include a link to the relevant blog report below and the EU regulation implemented.

Note that 3rd July was the date of commencement of the regulation (link 2) not its date of issue , which was as part of the Sanctions Act 2019/06, which was signed into effect on 28th March (link 3) - over 3 months previously.

https://www.europeansanctions.com/20...1-designation/

https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articles/2019s131.pdf

https://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articles/2019-06o.pdf