The Week Ahead, 19 October: CBAM trilogue, OFAC deadlines, FATF plenary

Nine dated items for the week of 19 October and the days after it, each with the document behind it.

• Monday 19 October. The UN Human Rights Committee opens its 146th session in Geneva, which runs to 6 November, with Cameroon, Jamaica and Rwanda among the four states under review, according to the UN Geneva calendar.
• Tuesday 20 October. EU negotiators hold the first formal trilogue on extending the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) to downstream steel and aluminium goods and on new anti-circumvention rules, according to Mayer Brown. The Commission tabled its proposal on 17 December 2025, and the Council's general approach followed in June. The law firm puts the Council's scope at about 200 downstream product types and the Parliament's at more than 450, against about 180 in the proposal.
• Thursday 22 and Friday 23 October. EU trade ministers meet informally under the Irish presidency, the Council's forward look lists, without agenda details.
• Friday 23 October. OFAC's General License EE expires at 12:01 a.m. US eastern time, closing the window to wind down dealings with Samudra Marine Services of Mumbai, which was designated on 8 October in an Iran-related action.
• Sunday 25 October. Brazil holds its presidential run-off between Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party, who took 47.03 per cent and 45.16 per cent of valid votes in the first round on 4 October, according to the Superior Electoral Court's official results. The court's results system lists federal and state second-round contests for that date.
• Monday 26 October. The FATF plenary opens in Paris and runs to 30 October, according to the FATF calendar. At its June plenary the FATF added Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iraq to its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring and removed Algeria and Namibia, its outcomes statement shows.
• Friday 30 October. OFAC's General License FF expires, ending the authorisation to wind down transactions with Iraq's International Development Bank for Investment and Finance, which OFAC designated on 15 October.
• Friday 30 October. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ends its 93rd session, which includes reviews of Kazakhstan and Moldova, the UN Geneva calendar shows.
• Further out. COP31 opens in Antalya with a pre-sessional period from 2 November and the conference itself from 9 to 20 November, according to the UNFCCC overview schedule. Türkiye is the host.

Undated but due: Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on 11 September that he would deliver his annual Address in October under Article 46 of the new constitution, Zakon.kz reported. No date had been announced by 17 October.