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3. That the manufacture of and the traffic in arms be subjected to national control by
means of :
A. General licences for manufacture ;
B. Special visas for export ;
C. Publicity :
(1) For orders for manufacture ;
(2) For all production, both State and private ;
(3) For exports and imports ;
(4) Prompt transmission to the Permanent Disarmament Commission by signatories
of information on :
(a) All licences as soon as issued ;
(b) All orders as soon as received by licensee ;
(c) Shipment for export as soon as made ;
\d) Annual reports of all production and imports.
4. That some international body, such as the Permanent Disarmament Commission,
be empowered to co-ordinate the execution of the various provisions of the Convention by :
A. Consideration of publicity ;
B. Checking against quantitative and qualitative limitations of the Convention ;
C. Causing continuous and automatic inspections to be made—except for processes,
trade secrets, and administration of manufacturing concerns.
5. That increases in armaments for countries entitled thereto under the Convention
be made by stages which are to be specified in the Convention.
6. That replacement programmes are to be executed by stages over a period of years
and notified in advance to the international body charged with the supervision and execution
of the provisions of the Convention.
7. That categories appearing in provisions for the control and supervision of the
manufacture of and trade in arms be reconsidered and brought into harmony with the provisions
of the Convention relating to material.
(b) DRAFT ARTICLES
adopted on July 2nd, 1934, by the Committee for the Regulation of the Trade in and Private
and State Manufacture of Arms and Implements of War.1
Article A.
The manufacture of and the trade in arms and implements of war being matters of interest
to public international order, the High Contracting Parties assume entire responsibility in
these matters in the territories under their jurisdiction.
Article B.
The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact the necessary legal provisions to ensure
in the strictest manner the inspection and supervision of the manufacture of and the trade in
arms and implements of war.
Article C.
The High Contracting Parties undertake to prohibit, in the territories under their
jurisdiction, the manufacture of and the trade in arms and implements of war forbidden either
for use or for manufacture, or exceeding the qualitative limits laid down in the present
Convention (Annex ...).
They further undertake neither to manufacture, nor to permit to be manufactured, nor
to import for their own use, arms and implements of war in excess of the quantitative
limitations laid down in the present Convention (Annex ....).
As regards trade in arms and implements of war, they undertake to co-operate with the
Permanent Disarmament Commission in maintaining the observance of the limitations laid
down in the present Convention.
1 Document Conf. D./C.C.F.48(i) — July 2nd, 1934.