Documents from the 2025 CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapon systems

CONFERENCE DOCUMENTS

November session

• Rolling text: Revised Box I (3 September 2025)

Intersessional period

• Updated rolling text (12 May 2025)

March session

• Updated rolling text (Box III) (6 March 2025)
• Updated rolling text (Box I and II) (5 March 2025)
• Provisional programme of work (17 December 2024)
• Provisional agenda (17 December 2024)
• Rolling text (26 November 2024)

WORKING PAPERS

CCW/GGE.1/2025/CRP.1
Background paper on context-appropriate human judgement and control and the critical functions of LAWS
Submitted by Chairperson

CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.1
Chair’s summary – First 2025 session of the GGE on LAWS
Submitted by the Chairperson

CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.2
The possible uses of IEEE’s First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems as a building block for confidence building measures and the development and use of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Submitted by Brazil

CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.3
Working Paper – Emerging Technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Submitted by India

CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.4
Working paper on the “human element”
Submitted by Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden

CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.5
Working Paper on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Submitted by Czechia

CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.6
The Autonomy Aspect of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
Submitted by the United States

CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.7
Draft articles on autonomous weapon systems – prohibitions and other regulatory measures on the basis of international humanitarian law (“IHL”)
Submitted by Australia, Canada, Czechia, Estonia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States