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Experts from Police Services from SEE attend SEESAC’s Regional PSSM Training

MAVROVO/SKOPJE – Secure storage of weapons and ammunition is essential to non-proliferation efforts, in general and in South East Europe in particular. To support these efforts, SEESAC is organizing a regional course on Armament and Ammunition Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) (17-20 November 2015). Implemented under Component 1 of SEESAC’s EUSAC project, aiming to reduce the threat posed by the spread and illicit trafficking of SALW and their ammunition through capacity development of personnel tasked with managing stockpiles, the course gathers over 23 participants from Ministries of Interior (MoI) and Police Services from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.


The main objective of the course is to enhance the capacities of police services personnel tasked with managing and safeguarding stockpiles of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and their ammunition – with a specific focus on the security of stockpiles. The participants will receive theoretical and practical knowledge on the secure storage of armament and ammunition in accordance with the International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS). The course covers security regulations and plans, risk assessment, physical security and access control, personnel security and vetting, transportation and movement and inventory management.


The course complements efforts to increase security of storages through infrastructure improvements implemented under the same component of the EUSAC project.


EU SUPPORT OF SEESAC DISARMAMENT AND ARMS CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE (EUSAC)
 

The European Union entrusted SEESAC with the implementation of a series of region-wide activities in the period 2014 – 2016 through EU COUNCIL DECISION 2013/730/CFSP. The regional course is part of Component 1 of the resulting EUSAC Project (EU Support of SEESAC Disarmament and Arms Control Activities in South East Europe) which is an integral part of the SEESAC SALW Control portfolio.


EUSAC marks a continuation of the trust placed in SEESAC by the EU since 2002. The Union previously supported SEESAC through Council Decision 2002/842/CFSP, extended and amended by Council Decisions 2003/807/CFSP and 2004/791/CFSP. Most recently, the Union supported SEESAC arms control activities through Council Decision 2010/179/CFSP.


Designed in close cooperation with national authorities, the EUSAC project works on the following five interrelated streams of activities:
 

  • Increased security of stockpiles: through the renovation and security improvements to storages of arms and ammunition.
  • Stockpile reduction: through the destruction of surplus arms and ammunition held in storages.
  • Improved marking, tracing and registration of SALW: through the provision of support to the establishment or enhancement of existing weapons registration and record-keeping systems.
  • Improved regional cooperation on awareness raising, information sharing and knowledge transfer: through the facilitation of regional cooperation between national institutions tasked with arms control.
  • Implementation of collection and awareness raising campaigns.
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