Arms transfer controls in Europe
Host to many of the world's largest arms exporters, it is vital that Europe has effective arms transfer controls.
What we do
With partners we:
- work for more effective and transparent controls on arms transfers in European Union countries
- work with new member states and neighbouring countries to promote arms controls that comply with EU standards
- analyse the arms transfer control regimes in states and territories across Europe
- encourage the adoption of better accountability systems, including parliamentary scrutiny of export licences and annual arms export reports
We work with European governments, parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations to strengthen regulation of the European arms trade by:
-
research
- developing ways to strengthen the European Union’s regional agreement on arms exports - the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports
- raising awareness through seminars and policy roundtables with governments and civil society
Read our latest report on EU arms transfer controls.
Download 'Good Conduct? Ten years of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports'
Read a report that analyses the arms transfer control regime in Croatia.
Reports and briefings
Moldova and international small arms transfers: Implementing UN Programme of Action commitments, July 2008
Information exchange, transparency and preventing diversion of arms to unauthorised end-users, March 2008
'Indian helicopters for Myanmar: Making a mockery of embargoes?, July 2007
Measuring up? Arms transfer controls in Serbia, October 2007
Measuring up? Arms transfer controls in Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2007
Measuring up? Arms transfer controls in Kosovo, May 2007
Find out more
Read more about our work on arms transfers at the UK and international level.
Find out more about our regional arms transfer controls work in the Africa and Asia pages.
Contact
Roy Isbister
Team Leader
News
- Small arms and human security in Kosovo
- A report on public attitudes to small arms is launched at a conference on small arms and human security in Pristina.
- Supporting security in Bangladesh
- Saferworld works with the police and local communities in Bangladesh to improve safety and security.
- Saferworld annual review
- In November Saferworld published its annual review
- Actvities October 2008
- Download Saferworld's activity report for October.
- UN First Committee vote on the Arms Trade Treaty
- The UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security votes to work towards an Arms Trade Treaty