EUP2P COARM Regional Workshop for North African Countries to Promote Effective Arms Export Controls 2017

23/05/2017
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24/05/2017
Descripción de la actividad

As part of the European Union ‘Council Working Group on Conventional Arms Exports (COARM) Outreach Programme’, the second of two regional workshops for North African states took place in Rabat 23-24 May 2017. The workshop provided an opportunity for the participants to discuss transit and transhipment controls, arms diversion in Northern Africa and regional cooperation. EU experts shared recent updates to the EU’s arms export policy. In addition, experts from Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Canada and the UK briefed participants on marking, tracing and recent developments in the area of strategic trade management.

Descripción del Proyecto

The European Union 'Council Working Group on Conventional Arms Exports (COARM) Outreach Programme' (EU P2P COARM project) aims to provide assistance and cooperation in support of transparent and responsible arms transfers. The project promotes the principles and criteria for arms exports and related transparency measures introduced by the EU Common Position 2008/944/CFSP. This activity was carried out in the framework of EU Council Decision 2015/2309/CFSP and has six main components: (i) Regional workshops, (ii) study visits, (iii) individual assistance, (iv) rating opinions on the application of control lists, (v) arms diversion-related activities and (vi) a final assessment event. The previous and subsequent phases were financed and carried out under EU Council Decisions 2012/711/CFSP and 2018/101/CFSP. The project is implemented by the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) and co-funded between the EU and Germany.

Tipo de actividad
Institutional capacity-building
Enfoque de la Actividad
Diversion
Marking
Regional cooperation
Reporting on arms transfers
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Tracing
Transfer controls
Transit and trans-shipment controls
Socios
Algeria
Egypt
Libya
Morocco
Tunisia
Implementadores
German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)
Donantes
Germany
European Union (EU)
Presupuesto
EUR
Contacto

Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)
Division 225 – Outreach-Projects; Basic Principles
Frankfurter Straße 29 – 35
65760 Eschborn
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)6196 908-2602
E-mail: coarm@bafa.bund.de