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AEES Executive Certificate in Sanctions, export and trade compliance

Block a forbidden flow, check a third party and own a doubt. This AEES certification attests sanctions, export and trade compliance.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Sanctions, export and trade compliance

A vague familiarity with “Sanctions, export and trade compliance” is no longer enough. This belongs with Law and integrity. You handle business, an alert, a public contract, a sanction or a dispute. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to block a forbidden flow, check a third party and own an export doubt. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Sanctions, export and trade compliance” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Sanctions, export and trade compliance” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can block a forbidden flow, check a third party and own an export doubt, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Block a forbidden flow
  • Check a third party
  • Own an export doubt
  • Stop when the file is too clean to be true
  • Refuse a circuit
  • Write why you let it go
ESCO classification — European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

ESCO, the European skills vocabulary

This is the European Commission’s classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. This certificate is linked to it through the skills below. Each link opens the official record.

Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers List, Third party, Destination and Doubt.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Module 1, List: Who is forbidden, and what that blocks In sanctions and export control work, your first reflex is to ask who you are dealing with. Lists are the structured answer. Governments and international bodies publish names of persons, companies, vessels, and aircraft that are restricted. Some are fully blocked, others carry narrower restrictions. Mastering lists is not about memorizing names. It is about knowing where authoritative data lives, what each list means, and how to translate a hit into an operational stop or a documented go. Screening is never perfect. Names are transliterated, entities change, and data can be incomplete. You will face near matches, conflicting identifiers, and ownership questions. If a listed person controls your counterparty, your duty can extend beyond the four corners of the list entry. That is why you need a repeatable method: gather identifiers, select the right sources, interpret the legal scope, and record your decision so another compliance professional can recreate your path.
  2. Module 2, Third Parties: Client, Banker, Intermediary Every transaction is a chain. Your company may ship to a buyer, invoice a distributor, receive funds through a correspondent bank, and rely on a freight forwarder to move goods. If a single link in that chain is sanctioned, controlled, or acting as a proxy for a restricted party, your entire file is at risk. This module teaches you how to check the client, the banker, and the intermediary so you can keep lawful flows moving and stop problematic ones fast. You will learn to identify the real counterpart behind the name on a business card, read payment routes for sanctions and export red flags, and test intermediaries against practical criteria. You will also learn how to handle incomplete information without freezing your operations: when to escalate, when to stop, and how to write a clear, defensible justification either way.
  3. Destination Destination is more than a country on a pro forma invoice. It is the place where your good, software, or service is actually used, installed, or consumed. That can differ from the immediate consignee, the billing address, or the first port of discharge. A strong destination assessment aligns your file with sanctions, export controls, and commercial reality. It also gives you the confidence to stop a transaction when the path is opaque or too tidy to be real. In practice, you will face partial information, intermediaries, transshipment hubs, cloud infrastructures, and customers who do not always disclose their plans. Your task is not to read minds. Your task is to ask precise questions, cross-check independent data, and document a defensible decision either to block a forbidden flow, request a license, or let a clean shipment proceed. You will build that decision on verifiable facts: routing documents, digital logs, end-use statements, and risk indicators from official sources.
  4. Module 4/6, Doubt: Stop when the file is too clean to be true Sanctions and export control evasion seldom looks chaotic. Increasingly, it looks polished. Intermediaries prepare immaculate files that tick every checkbox, quote regulation-friendly language, and arrive faster than your normal internal cycle. This module trains your judgment for those moments. When everything looks perfect, your job is not to applaud the file. Your job is to test it. Doubt is not indecision. Doubt is a structured, time-bound state that triggers verification, escalations, and clear documentation. You will learn how to recognize the patterns of a file that is too clean to be true, how to probe it without bias, and how to stop a flow early when needed. You will also learn to write the short, factual note that explains why you let something proceed, or why you refused it.
  5. Module 5/6, Payment: Refuse a circuit that bypasses a bank Payments finalize the risk. Even when the goods, end-use, and counterparties look acceptable, the way money moves can create a sanctions breach, enable trade-based money laundering, or conceal diversion to a restricted party. This module makes you proficient at reading a payment path, spotting an attempt to bypass a bank, and saying no with confidence and clarity. Regulated banks provide more than a settlement service. They perform screening, apply AML controls, and embed transparency in messages that carry originator, beneficiary, and bank identifiers. When a counterparty proposes an alternative circuit outside a supervised bank, your risk multiplies. The right response is to examine the purpose, test the transparency, and refuse if the route strips out safeguards.
  6. Module 6: Trace - Writing why you let it go, or blocked it Trace is your professional footprint. It is the note that explains why a transaction was released, blocked, or escalated, and it is the set of attachments, system logs, and references that back up that note. When the pressure is on, it is tempting to move fast and keep the explanation in your head. That is risky. A good trace captures facts, reasoning, and references at the time of the decision, when details are still fresh and evidence is easy to retrieve. Regulators do not expect you to predict the future. They do expect you to apply a risk-based approach, use reliable sources, and keep records that show your process. When questions arise months or years later, the quality of your trace can be the difference between a defensible decision and a costly remediation. Your trace also helps colleagues handle renewals, updates, and follow-on shipments without repeating your work.