Ekonomické sankce zaměřené na obchod se zlatem a dalšími drahými kovy

This bachelor thesis presents a comparative analysis of sanctions regimes targeting precious metals imposed by the European Union and the United Nations. The aim of the thesis was to identify and compare differences of imposing and implementing these commodity sanctions. The research utilizes a combination of quantitative corpus linguistics tools in LancsBox X software with qualitative content analysis. The analysis demonstrated that both organizations are focusing on the same types of precious metals, such as gold, silver and platinum, with gold being the most addressed precious metal in both cases. However, EU Council regulations are more specific, more extensive and they also contain exceptions to these sanctions’ measures, while the UN Security Council resolutions are more concise and general, as they lack a deeper definition of precious metals, which leads to problems with the implementation of these measures.