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ANNEX 5<br />
UN Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing<br />
of and Trafficking in Firearms,<br />
their Parts and Components and<br />
Ammunition, supplementing the<br />
United Nations Convention against<br />
Transnational Organised Crime, 2001<br />
(known as the Firearms Protocol or<br />
Vienna Protocol)<br />
Agenda for Humanitarian Action,<br />
adopted by the 28 th <strong>Inter</strong>national<br />
Conference of the Red Cross and Red<br />
Crescent, 2003<br />
Provides that guns must be marked at<br />
the point of manufacture, import, and<br />
transfer from government into private<br />
hands.<br />
Calls for strengthened controls on<br />
arms and ammunition. States should<br />
“urgently enhance efforts to prevent<br />
the uncontrolled availability and misuse<br />
of small arms and light weapons”<br />
(Action 2.3.2)<br />
Regional level<br />
EU Joint Action on Small Arms and<br />
Light Weapons, 1998 (amended in<br />
2002)<br />
Bamako Declaration on an African<br />
Common Position on the Illicit Proliferation,<br />
Circulation and Trafficking of<br />
Small Arms and Light Weapons, 2000<br />
Legal Framework for a Common<br />
Approach to Weapons Control in the<br />
Pacific region (Nadi Framework), 2000<br />
Protocol on the Control of Firearms,<br />
Ammunition, and Other Related Material<br />
in the Southern African Development<br />
Community (SADC) Region, 2001<br />
Nairobi Protocol for the prevention,<br />
control and reduction of small arms<br />
and light weapons in the Great Lakes<br />
region and the Horn of Africa, 2004<br />
Andean Plan to Prevent, Combat and<br />
Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms<br />
and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects,<br />
2003<br />
Commits the EU to seek to build consensus<br />
on the establishment of restrictive<br />
national weapons legislation for<br />
small arms including penal sanctions<br />
and effective administrative control<br />
(Article 3d)<br />
Recommends that Member States<br />
criminalise in their national legislation<br />
the illegal possession and use of small<br />
arms and light weapons.<br />
Recommends that the possession and<br />
use of firearms and ammunition be<br />
strictly controlled, including through<br />
licensing and registration.<br />
Both instruments – nearly identical –<br />
provide for the total prohibition of<br />
civilian possession and use of all light<br />
weapons, automatic and semi-automatic<br />
rifles and machine guns; registration<br />
and licensing; provisions on safe<br />
storage; and a provision to ensure<br />
accountability and effective control of<br />
small arms owned by private security<br />
companies.<br />
Recommends the adoption, as soon<br />
as possible, of legislative measures to<br />
criminalise illegal possession and use<br />
of small arms and light weapons.<br />
Stemming the flow of small arms – Control issues<br />
Global level<br />
United Nations Charter<br />
Under Chapter VII, if the Security<br />
Council determines the existence of<br />
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