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These export controls-requirements that organizations selling or sending technologies with potential military applications abroad obtain a license from the Commerce Department-affect key swaths of the cybersecurity industry. The United States successfully negotiated research-use exceptions to export controls on surveillance tools at the December 2017 meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement, a club of advanced economies that coordinates export controls. Wassenaar Export Controls on Surveillance Tools: New Exemptions for Vulnerability Research | 5 January 2018 | Lawfare Cambodian government adviser Sieng Lapresse held a workshop entitled “EU Arms Trade Treaty Outreach Project” with about 30 officials from European Union countries and relevant ministries at the Sofitel hotel in Phnom Penh yesterday.įreeland’s proposal to join Arms Trade Treaty called inadequate | 8 February 2018 | CBC NewsĬhanges to Canada’s arms export policy to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of human rights abusers won’t mean an end to a controversial contract with Saudi Arabia, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday. Plan to turn arms treaty into law moves forward | 8 February 2018 | Khmer TimesĪuthorities yesterday began a two-day workshop on preventing the smuggling of illegal arms and integrating provisions of the Arms Trade Treaty, signed in 2013, into national law. and guns, the best form of action is always inaction. That’s not good news for anyone in the U.S. The United Nations will have a busy year in 2018 on the firearms front. The course is available here in English, French and Spanish.īeware: The United Nations Is Taking Aim at Ammo | 4 February 2018 | The Daily Signal The modules cite overlapping obligations of other treaties and the relevance of other international standards for the implementation of the ATT. They guide the user through the national reporting and control systems, the enforcement of the treaty and international cooperation. They also address regulations on brokering and measures to prevent diversion. The course contains 13 modules covering key provisions of the ATT, including the scope of the treaty, prohibited transfers, risks and decision making on export, regulations on imports, transit and trans-shipment. To enhance knowledge of the ATT’s arms transfer control obligations and optional measures amongst key stakeholders, IPIS has also developed an electronic self-learning course. Others, like Canada, have plans to accede to the ATT.įor a thorough legal and practical analysis of the ATT, we like to remind you of the book “ Weapons and International law: The Arms Trade Treaty”, published by Larcier and containing expert contributions by several researchers of the International Peace Information Service (IPIS). For signatories to the ATT, its implementation and translation into national laws often remains a challenging work-in-progress. The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is entering its fourth year.