# EU Sanctions Screening

> EU Sanctions Screening is a paid API for AI agents from api.eucompliance.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Screens a person or company name against the official EU consolidated financial sanctions list (FSF) using fuzzy matching, returning sanction details including programme, regulation, and entity metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.eucompliance.tools/x402/sanctions
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-sanctions-screening-1b3d7b8b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bm3aGPjwSvm-K4Ef_rmDs

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability eu-sanctions-screening-1b3d7b8b
```

Example prompt: Can you check whether 'Viktor Petrov' from Russia appears on the EU consolidated financial sanctions list — use a match threshold of 0.8?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, pay-per-use EU sanctions check with no account registration required. Ideal for low-volume, ad-hoc AML/KYC screening against the official European Commission FSF list with fuzzy name matching. Prefer this over commercial sanctions databases when EU-only coverage is sufficient and per-call pricing is preferred over subscriptions.

## Known failure modes

- Name not found — returns empty results if no match above threshold
- Threshold too high — legitimate matches missed if threshold set near 1.0
- Ambiguous names — common names may return multiple false-positive matches
- Stale data window — up to 24-hour lag since list is updated daily
- Invalid country code — malformed ISO-2 code may cause request rejection
- Missing required name parameter — returns validation error

## How this service works

Sanctions screening (AML/KYC) against three official lists in one call: EU (Commission FSF), UN Security Council and UK (HM Treasury OFSI) - 12,000+ entities, 50,000+ name variants, re-indexed daily, fuzzy matching. Each hit states its list, programme, reference and the list date. The signed response includes a versioned compliance workflow, an exact counterparty follow-up URL when safe, and a daily recheck-not-before time. Optional lists=eu,un,uk.

## Output

Returns matched entries from the EU consolidated financial sanctions list including sanction programme name, EU reference number, applicable regulation, listed countries, birth dates of the matched entity, the source/update date of the list, and a fuzzy match score indicating confidence of the name match.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "person or company name to screen"
      },
      "lists": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional: eu, un, uk or a comma list; default all three"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional ISO-2 country code"
      },
      "threshold": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "match threshold 0-1, default 0.85"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-sanctions-screening-1b3d7b8b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.eucompliance.tools](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.eucompliance.tools/llms.txt)