ATT Working Group on Effective Treaty Implementation
The Working Group on Effective Treaty Implementation (WGETI) was established at the second Conference of States Parties to allow for focused work and information exchange on all aspects of Treaty implementation. Key documents and presentations from those meetings are available below.
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024
Fifteen Meeting (February 2024)
Documents
- Israel's Working Paper: Diversion of Arms and Gender-based Violence
- The State of Palestine's Working Paper on Gender-based Violence
- The State of Palestine's Working Paper on the Role of Industry in Responsible Arms Trade
- The State of Palestine's Working Paper on the Upholding Legal Obligations under the ATT: The Case of the Palestinian People
- The State o Palestine's Working Paper on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) - Ad Hoc Discussions on Emerging Implementation Issues - The Case of the Palestinian People
- Draft Working Paper presented by the President of the Tenth Conference of States Parties to the ATT: The Role of Interagency Cooperation in the Effective Implementation of Arms Trade Treaty Provision (9 February 2024)
- WGETI Chair's letter (22 January 2024)
RCW and partner resources
- RCW's ATT Monitor
- RCW Briefing Paper to ATT Delegations on Arms Transfers to Israel (19 February 2024)
- UCLA Promise Institute's Briefing Paper to ATT Delegations Regarding Environmental Destruction as War Crimes in the Situation in Gaza (21 February 2024)
- WILPF Statement to the Sub-Working Group on Current and Emerging Implementation Issues (21 February 2024)
Statements
Sub-working Group on Article 6 & 7
Sub-working Group on Exchange of National Implementation Practices
National control systems and inter-agency cooperation
Sub-working group on Current and Emerging Implementation Issues
The role of industry in responsible arms trade
The risk of conventional arms being used for GBV or violence against women and children
Ad hoc discussions on current and emerging implementation issues: Upholding legal obligations under the ATT: The case of the Palestinian people
- Brazil
- Israel
- Japan (reply to Palestine)
- Netherlands
- Palestine
- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
- United Kingdom
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- American Friends Service Committee
- Australian Centre for International Justice
- Control Arms
- Josh Paul
- Palestinian BDS Movement
- University of Kent
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Fourteenth Meeting (May 2023)
Documents
- WGETI Chair's letter (3 April 2023)
- WGETI Draft Proposal: WGETI Configuration and Substance (3 May 2023)
Thirteenth Meeting (February 2023)
Documents and presentations
- WGETI Chair's letter and sub-working group documents
- Giovanna Maletta, SIPRI: Post-shipment On-site Inspections: Multilateral Steps for Debating and Enabling Their Adoption and Use
Twelfth Meeting (April 2022)
Statements
Sub-working group on Articles 6 and 7 (26 April)
WGETI Sub-working Group on Article 9 (27 April)
WGETI Sub-working Group on Article 11 (27 April)
Documents and presentations
- WGETI Chair's letter and sub-working group documents
- Transport and transit of arms by road and air, Dr. Julia Hörnig (February 2022)
- Article 6.3, 'Knowledge' and related terms, Maya Brehm
- Transit and Transshipment of Arms by Sea - a Transport Law Perspective, Dr. Julia Hörnig (April 2022)
Eleventh Meeting (February 2022)
Documents
- WILPF (sub-working group on articles 6 and 7) (15 February 2022)
- Control Arms (sub-working group on articles 6 and 7) (15 February 2022)
- Control Arms (sub-working group on article 9) (15 February 2022)
- Control Arms (sub-working group on article 15) (16 February)
Written consultation (June 2021)
Documents
- WGETI Sub-working Group on Article 11: Draft paper on the elements of a risk assessment process (2 June 2021)
Written submissions
Tenth Meeting (April 2021)
Documents
- Chair letter and sub-working group documents (31 March 2021)
- Article 7 export and export assessment, in The Arms Trade Treaty: A Commentary (Oxford University Press)
Statements
- Control Arms (sub-working group on articles 6 and 7)
- Control Arms (sub-working group on article 9)
- Control Arms (sub-working group on article 11)
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (sub-working group on articles 6 and 7) (26 April 2021)
Presentations
- "Serious violations of international humanitarian law", Maya Brehm, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- "'Serious violations of international human rights law' based on chapter on Article 7 Export and Export Assessment in The Arms Trade Treaty: A Commentary", Prof. Andrew Clapham, Geneva Academy
- "Transit controls of military goods in seven European countries", Mr. Diederik Cops, Flemish Peace Institute
- "Article 9 ATT - A Law of the Sea Perspective", Prof. Anna Petrig, University of Basel
Ninth Meeting (February 2021)
Documents
- Outcome of the silence procedure on the WGETI sub-working group's multi-year workplaces and mandate of Management Committee (2 March 2021)
- Revised multi-year workplan for articles 6 and 7
- Revised multi-year workplan for article 9
- Revised multi-year workplan for article 11
- Proposal by the CSP7 President on the WGETI multi-year work plan
- Invitation by the CSP7 President to comment on the revised draft of the WGETI multi-year work plan (29 January 2021)
- Draft WGETI multi-year work plan for articles 6&7
- Draft WGETI multi-year work plan for article 9
- Draft WGETI multi-year work plan for article 11
- Revised draft WGETI multi-year work plan for articles 6 and 7 (February 2021)
- Revised draft WGETI multi-year work plan for article 9 (February 2021)
- Revised draft WGETI multi-year work plan for article 11 (February 2021)
Written submissions
- France (February 2021)
- Japan (February 2021)
- Mexico (February 2021)
- Switzerland (February 2021)
- Control Arms (February 2021)
- WILPF (February 2021)
Eighth Meeting
Online consultations/ written submissions only due to COVID-19
Documents
- Work plans (7 April 2020)
Written submissions
- WILPF (May 2020)
Seventh Meeting (4-7 February 2020)
Documents
- Chair letter and sub-working group documents (20 January 2020)
Presentations
Sixth Meeting (2-3 April 2019)
Documents
- Chair letter and sub-working group documents (19 March 2019)
- Basic Guide to Establishing a National Control System (19 March 2019)
- International Law and Gender-Based Violence in the Context of the Arms Trade Treaty, submitted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (April 2019)
Presentations
- GCSP: Prohibitions and Export Assessment: Tracking ATT Implementation
- South Africa: Overview of the South African Conventional Arms Control System
- ICRC: GBV and IHL
- UNIDIR: Import documentation
Fifth Meeting (29-30 January 2019)
Documents
- Letter of the Chair including Agenda and Workplans of Sub-groups (11 January 2019)
- Draft Basic Guide to Establishing a National Control System (15 January 2019)
Presentations
- ATT Secretariat: National control lists and National points of contact (29 January 2019)
- Benin: Implementation of the ATT in Benin (29 January 2019)
- Serbia: Export control system (29 January 2019)
- Control Arms: How to use the ATT to address GBV (29 January 2019)
- Bulgaria: Bulgaria's experience in managing import documentation (30 January 2019)
- UNIDIR: Addressing diversion in arms transfers: end use and user control system (30 January 2019)
- Liberia: Establishing a National Point of Contact (30 January 2019)
Fourth meeting (29-30 May 2018)
Documents
- Letter of the Chair (15 May 2018)
- Work plan for Sub-working Group on Article 5 (15 May 2018)
- Work plan for Sub-working Group on Articles 6 and 7 (15 May 2018)
- Work plan for Sub-working Group on Article 11 (15 May 2018)
Third meeting (6 March 2018)
Documents
- Letter of the Chair including agenda and work plans of sub-groups (9 February 2018)
- Food for thought paper on practical measures to conduct likelihood assessments under Articles 6 and 7 of the Arms Trade Treaty, submitted by Switzerland (2 March 2018)
- Food for thought paper on the topic of the prevention of diversion (Article 11), submitted by Switzerland (2 March 2018)
- Preventing and fighting the diversion of legally transferred weapons, submitted by Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Sweden (6 March 2018)
Presentations
- Sweden Inspectorate of Strategic Products (6 March 2018)
- ATT Secretariat: Status of Article 5 Implementation and NPCs (7 March 2018)
Second meeting (29 May 2017)
Documents
- Draft Agenda (17 May 2017)
- The co-chairs draft discussion paper (17 May 2017)
First meeting (6-7 February 2017)
Documents
- Draft annotated programme of work (27 January 2017)
- Input provided by Sweden (30 January 2017)
- Input provided by GCSP (3 February 2017)
- Co-chairs summary report of the meeting (15 February 2017)