MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
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<strong>MISSING</strong> <strong>PIECES</strong><br />
EU Common Position on the Control<br />
of Arms Brokering, 2003<br />
Sets out brokering controls EU states<br />
shall adopt to avoid circumnavigation<br />
of arms embargoes and export laws.<br />
Controls include the establishment of<br />
a clear legal framework, broker licensing<br />
and record-keeping requirements,<br />
registration and authorisation, information<br />
exchange and enforcement.<br />
OAS Model Regulations for the Control<br />
of Brokers of Firearms, their Parts and<br />
Components and Ammunition, 2003<br />
Wassenaar Arrangement Elements for<br />
Export Controls of Man-Portable Air<br />
Defence Systems (MANPADS), 2003<br />
Wassenaar Elements for Effective Legislation<br />
on Arms Brokering, 2003<br />
OSCE Principles on the Control of Brokering<br />
in Small Arms and Light Weapons,<br />
2004<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 />
Provide that a national authority must<br />
be named responsible for registering<br />
and licensing arms brokers, and sets<br />
criteria for issuing licenses.<br />
Agreement by Wassenaar Participating<br />
States to apply strict national controls<br />
on the export of MANPADS. States agree<br />
not to use brokers for MANPADS sales,<br />
and to weigh the possibility of diversion<br />
or un-authorised re-transfer, the recipient<br />
state’s level of stockpile security,<br />
and other criteria, prior to sale.<br />
States “agree to strictly control the<br />
activities of those who engage in the<br />
brokering of conventional arms” including<br />
through licensing of brokers and<br />
transactions.<br />
Provides a set of core principles to<br />
form the basis of arms brokering controls,<br />
drawing significantly from the<br />
EU Common Position on the Control<br />
of Arms Brokering (see above).<br />
Provides for the regulation of brokering,<br />
and includes a definition of brokers<br />
and brokering.<br />
Breaking the deadlock: Guns and armed groups<br />
Global level<br />
Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949<br />
Convention on the Prevention and<br />
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,<br />
1951<br />
Protocol Additional to the Geneva<br />
Conventions, and Relating to the Protection<br />
of Victims of Non-<strong>Inter</strong>national<br />
Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 1979<br />
Common Article 3 provides minimum<br />
standards to be respected in the case<br />
of armed conflicts “not of an international<br />
character.”<br />
Provides for the punishment of the<br />
crime of genocide whether committed<br />
by “constitutionally responsible<br />
rulers, public officials or private<br />
individuals.”<br />
Subjects organised armed groups to<br />
some basic principles of IHL.<br />
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