Roadmap for a sustainable solution to arms control in the Western Balkans by 2024 

The Roadmap was developed by the Western Balkans authorities with SEESAC’s technical support under the auspices of France and Germany and in consultation with the European Union (EU) and all other relevant actors. The Roadmap was adopted by the region’s leaders at the London Summit in the presence of EU leaders.

The Roadmap envisages the Western Balkans as a safer region and an exporter of security where comprehensive and sustainable mechanisms, fully harmonized with the EU and other international standards, are in place to identify, prevent, prosecute, and control the illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of firearms, ammunition and explosives. It is based on regional cooperation principals and it draws upon SEESAC’s signature solution to arms control resulted from over a decade of work on all arms control related aspects with governments in the region and in partnership with the EU.

Download Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/1788 of 19 November 2018 in support of SEESAC for the implementation of the Regional Roadmap on combating illicit arms trafficking in the Western Balkans

2018

Combating the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons
South East Europe Regional Implementation Plan
2014

Combating the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons
Stability Pact Regional Implementation Plan For South East Europe
Revised 2006

Borba protiv širenja i uticaja lakog i malokalibarskog oružja                                  
Pakt za stabilnost Regionalni Plan Implementacije za Jugoistocnu Evropu                 
Revised 2006

Latest EU strategy against illicit firearms, small arms and light weapons and their ammunition

• EU Strategy Against Illicit Firearms, Small Arms & Light Weapons & Their Ammunition - Council Conclusions (19 November 2018)

EU Action Plan on firearms trafficking 2020-2025

• EU Action Plan on firearms trafficking 2020-2025 (ALB, BCMS, MKD, ROM, RUS)
• Annexes to  the EU Action Plan on firearms trafficking 2020-2025 Annexe (ALB, BCMS, MKD, ROM, RUS) 

EU Council Decisions in support of SALW Control in South East Europe 

• EU Council Decision 2024/381, amending Decision 2019/2111
• EU Council Decision 2022/2321
• EU Council Decision 2022/1654, amending Decision 2018/1788
• EU Council Decision 2021/2161, amending Decision 2018/1788
• EU Council Decision 2019/2113, amending Decision 2016/2356
• EU Council Decision 2019/2111
• EU Council Decision 2018/1788
• EU Council Decision 2016/2356
• EU Council Decision 2015/2051, amending Decision 2013/730
• EU Council Decision 2013/730 
• EU Council Decision 2010/179
• EU Council Decision 2004/791, extending and amending Decision 2002/842
• EU Council Decision 2003/807, extending and amending Decision 2002/842
• EU Council Decision 2002/842

Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA II) 2014-2020

• Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA II) 2014-2020

EU Directives/Regulations

Civil use of firearms and ammunition

• Council Directive 91/477/EEC of 18 June 1991 on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons 
• Directive 2008/51/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 amending Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons
• Directive (EU) 2017/853 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 amending Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons 
• Regulation 258/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 implementing Article 10 of the United Nations’ Protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UN Firearms Protocol), and establishing export authorisation, and import and transit measures for firearms, their parts and components and ammunition 
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403 of 15 December 2015 establishing common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques for ensuring that deactivated firearms are rendered irreversibly inoperable
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/337 of 5 March 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403 establishing common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques for ensuring that deactivated firearms are rendered irreversibly inoperable 
• Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/68 of 16 January 2019 establishing technical specifications for the marking of firearms and their essential components under Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons
• Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/69 of 16 January 2019 laying down technical specifications for alarm and signal weapons under Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons

Civil use of explosives 

• Regulation (EU) No 98/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the marketing and use of explosives precursors 
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/214 of 30 November 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 98/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adding aluminium powder to the list of explosives precursors in Annex II
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/215 of 30 November 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 98/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adding magnesium nitrate hexahydrate to the list of explosives precursors in Annex II 
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/216 of 30 November 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 98/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adding magnesium powder to the list of explosives precursors in Annex II
• Directive 2014/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market and supervision of explosives for civil use

Military use of FAE

• Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP of 8 December 2008 defining common rules governing control of exports of military technology and equipment
• User's Guide to Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP defining common rules governing the control of exports of military technology and equipment (2015 edition)
• Common Military List of the European Union 
• Council Common Position 2003/468/CFSP of 23 June 2003 on the control of arms brokering 
• Directive 2009/43/EC  of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the Community
• Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC 
• Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items.

EU Common Military List 

• EU Common Military List 2022
• EU Common Military List 2020
• EU Common Military List 2019
• EU Common Military List 2018
• Changes to the EU Common Military List for 2018 in English and BCMS
• EU Common Military List 2017
• EU Common Military List 2016
• EU Common Military List 2015
• Changes to the EU Common Military List for 2015 in English and BCMS
• EU Common Military List 2014
• Changes to the EU Common Military List for 2014 in English and BCMS
• EU Common Military List 2013
• EU Common Military List 2012
• Changes to the EU Common Military List for 2012 in English and BCMS
• EU Common Military List 2011
• EU - Code of Conduct on Arms Exports
• EU Arms Brokering 2003
• EU Joint Action 2002

Other relevant EU Documents 

• EU Council Tenth Progress Report 2010
• EU Common Position 2008
• EU Common Position - User Guide
• EU Council Directive (91/477/EEC)

• UN Programme of Action
• UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
• Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transitional Organized Crime
• Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials - Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, Cuba, 27 August to 7 September 1990.
• Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials  - Adopted by General Assembly resolution 34/169 of 17 December 1979.
• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women - General Assembly resolution 48/104 of 20 December 1993.
• Adoption of the report on the fifty-eighth session to the Human Right Council - Draft report of the SubCommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 24 August 2006.
• UN International SALW Tracing Instrument - International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons - A/CONF.192/15
• Legislative Guides for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol Thereto - Published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in October 2004.
• Draft International Small Arms Control Standard (Marking) 2010 - Draft module developed by the UN Coordinating Action on Small Arms
• Draft International Small Arms Control Standard (Tracing) 2010 - Draft module developed by the UN Coordinating Action on Small Arms 
• UN GA Arms Trade Treaty 

• Wassanaar Arrangement 2007 (MANPADS)
• Wassanaar Arrangement 2000 (Surplus Disposal)
• Wassanaar Arrangement 2007 (Exports)
• Wassanaar Arrangement 2003 (Brokering)
• Wassanaar Arrangement 2006 (Intangible Transfer of Technology)
• Wassanaar Arrangement 2007 (SALW Air Transfer)

• OSCE Document on SALW
• OSCE Decision on Brokering
• OSCE Decision on EUC
• OSCE Decision on MANPADS 2003
• OSCE Decision on MANPADS (Export Controls) 2004
• OSCE Document on Ammunition
• OSCE Plan of Action on SALW 2010
• OSCE - Decision on SALW and Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition
• OSCE - Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons