On the Thursday 11 September, the Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI and the Danish EU Council Presidency hosted a closed-door briefing on strengthening oversight of flag registries to disrupt the operations of the global shadow fleet. The discussion explored the role of permissive flag states in facilitating sanctions evasion by Russia, Iran, and other actors, and presented new policy recommendations from the RUSI Maritime Sanctions Taskforce. This event brought together government officials and sanctions experts to support more effective maritime sanctions enforcement