Theme: conventional weapons

• Reviewing the EU Common Position on arms exports: whither EU arms transfer controls? Report

  Authors: Diederik Cops and Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 03/12/2019

  For almost 30 years the European Union (EU) has attempted to achieve greater convergence of its member states’ arms export policies. Since the adoption of the EU’s Common Position on arms exports in 2008, two review processes have taken place. ... read more

• Firearms acquisition by terrorists in Europe. Research findings and policy recommendations of Project SAFTE Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Kevin Goris

  Publication date: 18/04/2018

  Project SAFTE showed that there is not one unified firearms market in Europe. Rather several disjointed and sometimes interrelated markets with different characteristics, configurations and supply-and-demand mechanisms exist alongside each other within Europe. This report offers a systematic and comparative ... read more

• Scrutinizing arms exports in Europe: The reciprocal relationship between transparency and parliamentary control External publication

  Information on exports of conventional military equipment was traditionally kept out of the public and political realm. In recent decades this gradually changed, and within the EU, Member States are legally bound to publish an annual report on arms exports ... 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

• 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

• 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

• Flemish Foreign Arms Trade and Trade in Dual Use Items 2009 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 17/03/2010

  This report analyzes the Flemish Foreign Arms Trade and Trade in Dual Use Items in 2009. read more