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Document 52022PC0480

Initiative summary:
This initiative aims at better preventing diversion from the legal trade to the black market and adapting to current threats by (1) ensuring a uniform implementation of the Firearms Protocol in the EU, (2) ensuring an effective tracing of firearms in international transactions, (3) improving the exchange of information between national authorities, and (4) facilitating the legitimate international trade of firearms and providing the industry with as little regulatory burden as possible.
EuroVoc thesaurus:
area of freedom, security and justice; export licence; non-proliferation of arms; illicit trade; firearms and munitions; UN convention; import licence; protocol to an agreement; fight against crime; transit; arms trade