OSCE Best Practice Guide: National Procedures for Stockpile Management and Security

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OSCE Best Practice Guide National Procedures
for Stockpile Management and Security
Contribution by Major Prasenjit Chaudhuri,
Euro-Atlantic Security Cooperation,
International Relations Defence, MoD,
Switzerland
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Disposition

• Introduction
• The process which led to the best practice guides
• The characteristics of the best practice guides
• The measures proposed by the III. Best Practice
  Guide and other documents
• Ways and means of support
• Conclusions

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References

• OSCE Document on Small Arms and Light Weapons
  (SALW), 24 November 2000
• Workshop on Implementation of the OSCE Document
  on SALW, 4 and 5 February 2002
• FSC-Decision No. 11/02, 10 July 2002
• FSC-Decision No. 5/03, 18 June 2003
• OSCE Handbook of Best Practice Guides on SALW, 1
  December 2003

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OSCE Handbook of Best Practice Guides on SALW

• National Controls over Manufacture
• Marking, Record-keeping and Traceability
• National Procedures for Stockpile Management and
  Security
• National Control of Brokering Activities
• Export Control
• Definition and Indicators of a Surplus
• National Procedures for the Destruction
• SALW in Disarmament, Demobilization
  Reintegration Processes

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OSCE Handbook of Best Practice Guides on SALW

• The BPG can be ordered atOSCE FSC Support
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  Tel. [phone] E-mail
  fsc-projects_at_osce.org
• or be downloaded at http//www.osce.org/fsc/docu
  ments/salw/

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The characteristics of the best practice guides

• Neither politically nor legally binding
• Dynamic and flexible Instrument to reach a higher
  level of common standards of practice and improve
  the effective implementation
• Implementation through the participating States
• Overview through the Forum for Security
  Co-operation

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Measures proposed by the Best Practice Guide

• Measures covered
• characteristics of stockpile locations
• security and access control
• inventory management and accounting control
  procedures
• procedures aimed at maximising transport security
• Information on and a model for a security plan
• Definition according to the OSCE SALW Document
• excluding ammunition, combined ammunition/SALW
  storage sites and SALW stockpiles of manufacturers

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Additional Documents

• FSC-Decision No. 7/03 on Man-Portable Air Defence
  Systems (MANPADS), 23 July 2003
• OSCE Document on Stockpiles of Conventional
  Ammunition, 19 November 2003
• Workshop papers and documentation of EAPC/PfP
  Courses on Stockpile Management and Security
  2000-2002 and Collection and Destruction 2002

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Ways and means of support

• Expert Mechanism under Section V
• Assistance with the reduction and disposal,
  border controls as well as with SALW collection
  and control programmes
• Initialisation through a request for assistance
• First request initialised by Belarus in July 2003

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Ways and means of support

• Providing Expertise
• pooling expertise and resources in multilateral
  structures
• Switzerland as a contributor of expertise in the
  area of Stockpile Management and Security

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Conclusions

• Best practice guides and expert mechanism are the
  two key instruments for implementation
• National implementation as core element for
  successfully combating illicit trafficking of
  SALW in all its aspects
• Multinational/Sub-Regional approach and
  application
• Call-up of experts and assessment of its own
  situation