EU Sanctions Monitor: Consolidated List Watch & Search (MCP)

The official EU consolidated financial sanctions list — 6,234 sanctioned persons and organisations worldwide — through one clean API. Screen any name against the full list, or monitor the list itself and get alerts the day the EU adds or removes an entity — plus listed-alert hits for the names you watch. No key, no login. MCP-compatible, agent-ready.

Who pays for sanctions screening

Compliance teams, auditors, lawyers, regtechs and any company onboarding EU counterparties must check against the EU consolidated list. The official source is a 25 MB XML of nested regulations and nameAlias attributes — unusable for day-to-day screening. This actor parses it to clean records: name, aliases, programme, regulation, dates, citizenships.

What you get per row

logicalId (stable id), unitedNationId, subjectType (person/enterprise), primaryName + aliases (strong aliases preferred), programme (UKR, RUS, IRQ…), regulationTitle + regulationDate, function, birthDate, citizenships, designationDetails, and monitor event fields.

Two modes

search — screen a name now

{ "mode": "search", "query": "Prigozhin", "type": "person", "maxResults": 5 }

Matching is accent-tolerant and context-aware (full-string and strong partial-name matches).

monitor — the daily compliance pulse

{ "mode": "monitor", "watchNames": ["Deripaska", "Rosneft"], "maxResults": 30 }

• Run 1 = free baseline — snapshots all 6k+ logical IDs.
• Run 2+ emits only: new-entity (newly listed), delisted-entity (removed), listed-alert (your watched name just appeared).
• Schedule daily; a quiet cycle costs $0.001.

Data honesty & limits

• Rows come only from the official EU FSF XML downloaded at run time (the canonical consolidated list). No name similarities are invented: a match means the name or a strong alias matched.
• Screening tools decide risk; this actor reports facts (name, regulation, programme). False positives are your human review's job — aliases and birthDate/citizenships are included to help.
• Large-file stability: the XML is fetched once per run; parses ~6.2k entities in seconds.

Recipes

1. KYC automation hook — webhook the monitor into your CRM; a new-entity or listed-alert opens a review case automatically.
2. Agent screen (MCP) — "is this company/person EU-sanctioned?" answered with the exact regulation, programme and aliases.
3. Change feed for compliance newsletters — report EU additions/delistings daily with citations.

Pricing

event	price
Actor start	$0.001
EU sanction entity	$0.001 / row

Typical runs: 5-row name screen ≈ $0.006 · daily diff with 3 changes ≈ $0.004.

MCP / AI-agent usage

https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_HANDLE~eu-sanctions-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN

Input = the JSON above. Output = rows as documented. Compatible with per-request agentic payments.

Questions / sources (UN, OFAC pairs): Issues tab on Apify Store.