Publications

Feel free to browse through our list of Dutch-language publications.

• Gun Control in Belgium: A Review of the Effects of the 2006 Weapons Law Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Maarten Van Alstein

  Publication date: 03/03/2015

  A review of the effects of the Belgian weapons law of 2006 and a concise account of how the law came about, and what major innovations it introduced in the Belgian gun control regime. read more

  

• Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2013 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Tomas Baum

  Publication date: 19/02/2015

  This annual report analyses the Government of Flanders’ policy on foreign arms trade. As part of its tasks as defined in its Founding Act, the Flemish Peace Institute “provides advice to the Flemish Parliament on the annual report of the ... read more

• Illegal firearms in Belgium Factsheet

  Publication date: 05/01/2015

  The term “illegal arms” does not say much about the nature of the arms. Whether an arm is legal or illegal mainly depends on who owns, sells or uses it. While most people are prohibited from owning or using automatic ... read more

• Business as usual? Assessing the impact of the Arab Spring on European arms export control policies. Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 24/03/2014

  This report evaluates the impact of the Arab Spring by analysing how four Member States (France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands) responded to these events in their arms export policies. Our research shows that the Member States responded differently. read more

  

• Transit of strategic goods in Europe Report

  Authors: Kathleen Van Heuverswyn, Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 13/08/2013

  This publication contains a detailed description of regulations and administrative practices for controlling the transit of strategic goods in the Flemish Region of Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For the five national regimes investigated, the description ... read more

• Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2012 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Milou Dubois

  Publication date: 25/06/2013

  In this report, Flemish licences for the transfer and for the import, export and transit of defence products are analyzed on the basis of the available figures. In this analysis we focus not only on the total figures, but also ... read more

• Gun Ownership in Belgium Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet & Maarten Van Alstein

  Publication date: 19/09/2012

  This report sheds some light on the size and nature of gun ownership in Belgium through (1) the official statistics of the Belgian Central Weapons Register and the databases of provincial weapons administrations, and (2) the results of telephone surveysthe ... read more

  

• Flemish foreign trade in dual-use items 2011 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 19/06/2012

  Dual-use items are products and technologies that were not developed specifically for military purposes but which may have a military application. Exports of these dual-use items from Flanders are regulated by EC Regulation 428/2009. This report analyses licences issued and ... read more

  

• Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2011 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 23/05/2012

  Report on the Flemish Foreign Arms Trade in 2011 (This report also exists in Dutch)   read more

  

• Flemish Foreign Trade in Dual Use Items in 2010 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 01/05/2011

  This report analyzes the licenses grant and denied for intra-Community transfers and for exports of dual use items in 2010. read more