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SEESAC Supports the Improvement of Arms Exports Control Software for Montenegro and Serbia

Based on the requests made by the arms exports licensing authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, in 2009 SEESAC first developed the arms exports control software for licence record-keeping, analyses and report generation. The software keeps records of issued export and import licenses and enables the generation of periodical reports – annual or quarterly.

 

More recently, national authorities of Montenegro and Serbia addressed SEESAC with a request for further expansion and development of the software system.

 

The scope of the requested technical assistance was precisely defined with national counterparts and following activities were implemented:

  1. A comprehensive upgrade of the Montenegrin software for license recordkeeping, analysis and report generation;
  2. Development of a new software for license recordkeeping, analysis and report generation for Serbia.

The software in Montenegro has been upgraded to include new reporting templates including those tailored for the OSCE report, the conventional weapons report in line with UN and OSCE classification, and the Montenegrin National Assembly report. The upgraded version of the software facilitates the submission of reports to the UN and OSCE and has been operational and in use at the Ministry of Economy of Montenegro as of mid-January 2014.   

 

For the authorities in Serbia, SEESAC delivered a version of the software which contains all necessary features for a diligent collection, processing and reporting on arms transfers to the relevant international regimes, national institutions and the Arms Exports Regional Report. The new software has been adjusted in accordance with the legislative and institutional framework of the Republic of Serbia. The Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, as the principle responsible institution in the Arms Control system in Serbia, will be relying solely on this new software solution as of April 2014.  

 

These activities are generously supported by the Kingdom of Norway through SEESAC’s Arms Exports Control Programme in the Western Balkans.

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