As part of the EU ATT Outreach Project,  Benin, with the support of Expertise France, hosted the first workshop of its assistance roadmap on January 16-17, 2019, in Cotonou. For this event, Expertise France selected a team of three experts (from France and Burkina Faso), joined by two additional national speakers invited by the local partner, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Benin. Attended by 15 representatives of the main actors involved in the implementation of the ATT in Benin (the Government, the National Assembly, the judiciary and civil society), the workshop gave an opportunity to discuss ongoing relevant legislative initiatives, notably a draft law covering the ECOWAS Convention on small arms and light weapons (but also incorporating some elements of the ATT such as the categories listed under article 2). The experts shared best practices and technical advice before the Beninese partners will start working on a new preliminary draft law, and its decrees, integrating further ATT obligations in the legislation, including:1) The creation of a national control system regulating all the transfers of conventional arms referred to under article 2; 2) The designation of competent national authorities; 3) The establishment of a national control list.