collection purposes (collectionist item, national culture heritage item, item of museum value), design and manufacture of a category A firearm, the purpose of destroying firearms and ammunition, rendering them inoperative or manufacturing inoperative firearms and ammunition.

Air launched sub munitions (multi fuze) Ground launched sub munitions (single fuze) Ground launched sub munitions (multi fuze) Hand projected (rifle) grenades Mortar rounds (excl. carrier round) Artillery projectiles Aircraft unitary bombs

It is difficult to know how much ammunition remains in circulation in Liberia because figures are available only for how much was destroyed (6,486,136 pieces of small arms ammunition and 33,604 pieces of unexploded ordnance), and no complete figures are available for how much was delivered.

Different manufacturers of sub munitions around the world have achieved different levels of dud rates with their sub munitions.

(iii) Sub Munitions

(i) Cannon shells ( 14.5mm)

It would be going too far to liken these munitions to genuine cluster munitions, as one shell carries only two BONUS munitions at a time.

Most types of submunitions are designed to disperse submunitions over a wide area (some models disperse submunitions over a square kilometre).

This list, as reflected in both matrices, includes the following munitions Cannon shells ( 14.5 mm), pyrotechnics and propellants, air launched submunitions (single fuze, multi fuze), ground launched submunitions (single fuze, multi fuze), hand and projected rifle grenades, mortar rounds, artillery projectiles and aircraft unitary bombs.

(e) Small calibre ammunitions

Air delivered Cluster Munitions

Monitoring exports of ordnance

The UN Firearms Protocol will be implemented in the Weapons and Ammunition Act.

The persistent nature of cluster munitions when they fail to explode forms one of the most problematic aspects of these munitions.

Following the battle, the Monitoring Group obtained photographs of Ethiopian supplied ammunition boxes made of wood and physical samples of thick plastic Ethiopian supplied ammunition pouches the boxes and the pouches were captured by Habsade's forces.

So far, some 400 weapons, 49,062 rounds of ammunition and 389 pieces of unexploded ordnance have been collected.

Firearms and Ammunition Act 1990 regulates the importation, possession and handling of arms and ammunition.

The Firearms and Ammunition Act 1990 regulates the importation, possession and handling of firearms.

Some 33,000 pieces of heavy munitions and unexploded ordnance, as well as 7 million rounds of small arms ammunition, had been collected and destroyed.

Identifying high risk munitions

Specific Types of Munitions

Weapons and ammunition found

In particular, multi fuze submunitions seem to pose a much lower humanitarian risk than submunitions with single fuze or mortar rounds.

Recalling the report of the group of experts on the problem of ammunition and explosives,

Lastly, France is highly committed to improving the production of its munitions, and especially their reliability.

This type of round uses a pyrotechnically initiated (PIE) fuze. It works by the impact of the round rapidly crushing explosive materials causing the materials to explode.

By increasing the accuracy of each projectile, this technical development should make it possible to reduce substantially the number of OGR munitions needed to attack a given objective, and hence the number of submunitions used The development of systems (submunitions and dispensers) which guarantee very low rates of unexploded submunitions constitutes a second major area of activity.

Legacy Munitions Awaiting Destruction

Movement of arms and munitions

These things acting singly or in combination can cause damage to munitions that may reduce the reliability of the item and may result in increased levels of duds.

Taking note of the report of the Group of Experts on ammunition and explosives,

Taking note of the report of the Group of Experts on the problem of ammunition and explosives,

The designs of which types of munitions, including sub munitions, need to be considered for improvement as possible preventive measures?

Both groups deal in explosive making materials, ammunition, small arms and anti tank weapons such as the RPG.

The reliability testing of existing and stored munitions should be part of any preventive measure designed to reduce the likelihood of munitions, including submunitions, from becoming ERW.

Military Utility of Cluster Munitions

(i) Small Arms Ammunition 14.5mm

The area covered by the bomblets, or submunitions, is known as the footprint'.

Category 2 Defensive firearms and their ammunition as well as weapons and their ammunition used for marksmanship, shows and decoration

What are the possible preventive measures aimed at improving the design of specific type of munitions, including submunitions?

There should be a distinction between future production and possible retrofitting of existing munitions.

It should be noted that fragments of destroyed biological munitions were first inspected, but not recognized as such, by inspectors in 1992, when these had been claimed by Iraq as part of the chemical munitions.

Describe the types of weapons and ammunition available through the arms market and the cost of each.

This high precision missile carries 10 KRISS runway penetrating submunitions.

(v) Aerial delivered Bombs Sub munitions,