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Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:30 PM
Subject: National reporting on small arms trade and control measures
To: Jean-Francois <[email protected]>
New Issue Brief: *What the National Reports Reveal: Trends in UN
PoA and ITI Reporting*
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*National reporting on small arms trade and control
measures*
The Programme of Action on Small Arms (PoA) and the International Tracing
Instrument (ITI) are politically binding instruments through which UN
member states undertake to implement a range of small arms control measures
to address the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, now
supplemented by the Arms Trade Treaty.
The PoA encourages UN member states to provide, on a voluntary basis,
national reports on their implementation of the PoA. The ITI requires
states to submit reports on its implementation, which may form part of
their PoA reports. Such reports are important tools for sharing information
on challenges affecting implementation and for communicating cooperation
and assistance needs. The Second Open-ended Meeting of Governmental
Experts, in the first week of June this year, brought together states
parties to discuss the implementation of these instruments.
Fourteen years after the adoption of the PoA (in 2001) and ten years after
the adoption of the ITI (2005), a large number of national reports are
available, providing a valuable source of information on the implementation
of these instruments.
A new Small Arms Survey Issue Brief, *What the National Reports Reveal:
Trends in UN PoA and ITI Reporting*, presents an overview of reporting
practices under the PoA and ITI by reviewing two complementary sets of
information. It considers global statistics on the frequency of UN member
states’ reporting between 2002 and 2014, and provides a thematic analysis
of PoA and ITI implementation by assessing states’ responses to the UN
Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) reporting template which covers five
key themes: manufacture, international transfers, marking, record-keeping,
and tracing.
The Issue Brief’s main findings include the following:
- Overall participation in the reporting process since the PoA’s
adoption has been substantial: 163 of 193 UN member states (84 per cent)
have submitted at least one national report and 137 (71 per cent) have
submitted at least two reports since 2002. However, 30 states (16 per cent)
have never reported on their PoA or ITI implementation and 26 (13 per cent)
have only reported once.
- The rate of reporting has decreased since 2008, despite the move to
biennial—as opposed to annual—reporting and the introduction of a new
reporting template in 2011.
- The region with the highest reporting rate is Europe, with 98 per cent
of European states having issued at least one national report between 2002
and 2014. The region with the lowest reporting rate is Oceania, with only
43 per cent of states having reported at least once since 2002.
- At least 169 states have indicated they have established a national
point of contact (NPC) for the PoA; of these states, 120 have also provided
an NPC for the ITI.
- While 73 countries (representing 45 per cent of the 163 countries that
reported at least once) state that manufacturing takes place on their
territories, 93 countries (57 per cent) confirm they have laws or
regulations covering the manufacture of small arms. At the same time, 157
(96 per cent) report having laws or regulations on the international
transfers of small arms.
- Demand is high for technical and financial support, including training
and cooperation, in the development of laws and regulations on transfers of
small arms (50 states, or 31 per cent of reporting states), on building
capacity for record-keeping (62 states, or 38 per cent), and on developing
procedures for tracing (59 states, or 36 per cent).
- The new reporting template made available to states in 2011 makes it
easier for them to submit reports, but it has led them to provide less
information and fewer details, while the opportunity to use national
reports to share best practices and experiences on small arms control
measures has been restricted.
The findings of this Issue Brief are being presented at the Final
Preparatory Meeting towards the First Conference of States Parties of the
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), being held in Geneva this week. The First
Conference of States Parties of the ATT will be held in Cancun, Mexico,
from 24 to 27 August 2015. The lessons learned from reporting experiences
with the PoA and ITI will be valuable in establishing meaningful
implementation of the ATT.
- *Download *the Issue Brief * What the National Reports Reveal: Trends
in UN PoA and ITI Reporting*
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