Theme: conventional weapons
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Funding the Arms Industry: Why Financial Institutions Hold Back and How Europe Could Move Forward. Factsheet
Publication date: 20/03/2025
This analysis – to be downloaded in full here – aims to closely examine the current debates on the defence industry’s access to financial markets and the main reasons behind the associated difficulties. It does so by analysing the defence ... read more
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Human rights due diligence in the global defence industry: Lessons from other sectors Report
Publication date: 17/01/2025
Defence companies face important challenges when attempting to implement Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD), due to the opacity of the arms value chain and also the fact that the most severe risks are situated downstream, being associated with the (mis)use ... read more
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Pulling the trigger: gun violence in Europe Report
Publication date: 27/10/2022
This report contains the 7 country studies – Belgium, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Sweden – that were undertaken as part of the second phase of project TARGET. While the reader will be able to observe interesting similarities ... read more
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Towards Europeanised arms export controls? Comparing control systems in EU Member States Report
Publication date: 15/06/2017
This research focuses on the regulation of international trade in military equipment, both within the EU and with non-EU countries. To what extent have European regulatory initiatives succeeded in harmonizing national systems for arms exports? read more
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Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2013 Report
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
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Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2012 Report
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
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Advice concerning ammunition marking Advice
Publication date: 13/03/2013
With reference to a legislative proposal submitted in the Belgian Senate for amending the Weapons Act of 8 June 2006, and in response to the growing attention being given to ammunition control in the international debate on arms trade, the ... read more
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Advice concerning the global Arms Trade Treaty Advice
Publication date: 11/03/2013
In the framework of the negotiations concerning a global Arms Trade Treaty in March 2013, the Flemish Peace Institute launched an advice to the Federal and Regional Governments of Belgium, as well as other actors involved in the negotiations, to address ... read more
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A European Agenda for Security Technology: From Innovation Policy to Export Controls Report
Publication date: 22/02/2013
This report examines the EU agenda on security technology. It questions whether security and defence or internal and external security have largely merged since the end of the Cold War so that there is no longer any significant difference between ... read more
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The role of the EU in the negotiations on an International Arms Trade Treaty Report
Publication date: 06/12/2012
This report was published within the EU Non-proliferation Consortium, in collaboration with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). read more
