Armament > Conference for the control of the international trade in arms, munitions and implements of war

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Category II. — Fire-arms and Ammunition for Purposes of Sport or Personal Defence.
In order to prevent the export and import of fire-arms and ammunition intended for warlike
purposes, though described and sold as articles of sport or personal defence, and in order at the
same time not to hamper unduly the legitimate trade in fire-arms and ammunition intended
to be used only for sport and personal defence, the High Contracting Parties hereby undertake
that they will use their best endeavours to agree upon a uniform definition of:
1. Military rifles, revolvers and pistols and the ammunition thereof.
2. Rifles, revolvers and pistols capable of use for both military and other purposes and
the ammunition thereof.
3. Rifles, revolvers and pistols regarded as of no military value and the ammunition
thereof.
Article 2.
The High Contracting Parties undertake not to export themselves and to prohibit the export
of arms and munitions of war in Category I except on the conditions mentioned in Article 3.
ihis prohibition of exportation shall apply to all such arms and ammunition, whether complete
or m parts. r
Article 3.
• n '^ever^e^es.s> notwithstanding this prohibition, the High Contracting Parties reserve the
nght to grant, in respect of arms and munitions of war whose use is not prohibited by inter¬
national law, licences for the export of arms and munitions of war in Category I, but such licences
are only to be granted on the following conditions:
I* licence is to be granted except for a direct supply to a Government recognised as such
by the Government of the exporting territory.
The form in which this licence shall be given shall, so far as practicable, resemble
that given as an annex to the present Convention.
2. The Government acquiring the consignments must act through a duly accredited repre¬
sentative, who shall produce his credentials.
3. Such representative must produce a written authority from his Government for the
acquisition of each consignment, which authority must state that the consignment is
acquired for the use of that Government and not for transfer and will be delivered to
them and to no one else.
4. Each licence must contain a full description of the arms and munitions of war to which
it relates, and the names of the exporting and acquiring Governments, ports of embarkation
and disembarkation, means of transport, route and destination.
5- A separate licence shall be required for each separate shipment which crosses the frontier
of the exporting country, whether by land, water or air.
Article 4.
Without prejudice to any obligations to which they may have subscribed under international
conventions dealing with transit, the High Contracting Parties undertake to take such steps as
they reasonably can to supervise and prohibit the transit of the arms and munitions of war in
Category I which are not accompanied by a licence made out in the proper form, as laid down
m Article 3.
A copy of the licence shall be sent by the exporting State to the central international body
referred to m Article 9 of the present Convention before the goods pass the frontier of the export¬
ing country, a second copy shall be sent to the same international body by the importing country
it one of the High Contracting Parties, within a month of the receipt of the consignment, mention
emg made of the heading under which the imported goods will appear in its import statistics.
Article 5.
•xuFlxe”v rmS and ammumtion in Category II may, if the exporting country so desires, be exported
without licence except to the prohibited areas and zone mentioned in Article 10. Provided
nevertheless, that, in the case of fire-arms and ammunition adapted both to warlike and also
to other purposes, the High Contracting Parties hereby undertake to determine from the size
destination and other circumstances of each shipment for what uses it is intended and to decide
m each case whether such shipment falls properly under Category II or whether it ought to be
considered to belong to Category I, and in the latter case they undertake that it shall become
subject to Articles 2 and 3 hereof.
Article 6.
The High Contracting Parties undertake in addition to prohibit the export both of arms
and munitions of war in Category I and also of fire-arms and ammunition in Category II, whether
complete or in parts, to the areas and zones specified in Article 10. Nevertheless, notwithstanding
this prohibition, the High Contracting Parties reserve the right to grant export licences on the