Annual Report on Export and Import of Military Goods and ... - SIPRI

ANNUAL REPORT ON EXPORT AND IMPORT OF MILITARY GOODS AND NON-MILITARY LETHAL GOODS IN 2009
3.
International Legal
Instruments and
Regimes
3.1.5. Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
The goal of the Regime is to limit the proliferation of missiles
and technology for missile production, and to maintain
the control list of military and dual-use goods. Even
though the Republic of Croatia submitted the request to
be accepted as member of the Regime, given the fact that
the country is formally fulfilling all the membership conditions,
it still has not joined the Regime. More information
on it can be found at www.mtcr.info.
Overall, we can conclude that the Republic of Croatia is
a member of four out of five described regimes, the only
exception being the MTCR regime.
3.2. International Treaties and
Conventions
As we have already stated, export control of military and
non-military lethal goods is undertaken with the purpose
of ensuring national and international security. As part of
that effort, the Republic of Croatia is fulfilling its international
commitments as a party and active participant of
the majority of important international treaties and conventions,
and as the signatory of documents pertaining
to the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
and conventional arms. Among numerous conventions
and treaties of this nature, we shall only outline some:
• The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT)
• The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on their Destruction (CWC)
• The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
(BTWC)
• The Convention on Cluster Munitions (which the
Republic of Croatia ratified August 17, 2009)
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