MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union

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