Sustainable Solution for SALW Issues in Western Balkans by 2024
Working towards a safer Western Balkans region free from illegal possession, misuse, and trafficking of firearms, ammunition, and explosives by 2024. The roadmap includes goals such as harmonizing arms control legislation, evidence-based policies, reducing illicit flows of weapons, raising awareness, decreasing firearm possession, and preventing proliferation. Key performance indicators measure progress through legal frameworks, operational cooperation, prosecution cases, intelligence sharing, policy development, prosecution rates, victim impacts, and voluntary surrender of firearms.
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Roadmap for a sustainable solution to the illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of SALW in the Western Balkans by 2024 Juliana Buzi Regional Cooperation Coordinator SEESAC
Western Balkans is a safer region, and an exporter of security, where comprehensive and sustainable mechanisms, fully harmonized with the European Union and other international standards, are in place to identify, prevent, prosecute, and control the illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of firearms, ammunition and explosives. ROADMAP: VISION
GOAL 1. By 2023, ensure that arms control legislation is in place, fully harmonized with the EU regulatory framework and other related international obligations and standardized across the region. ROADMAP: GOALS GOAL 2. By 2024, ensure that arms control policies and practices in the Western Balkans are evidence based and intelligence led. GOAL 3. By 2024, significantly reduce illicit flows of firearms, ammunition and explosives (FAE) into, within and beyond the Western Balkans.
GOAL 4. By 2024, significantly reduce the supply, demand and misuse of firearms through increased awareness, education, outreach and advocacy. GOAL 5. By 2024, substantially decrease the estimated number of firearms in illicit possession in the Western Balkans. GOAL 6. Systematically decrease the surplus and destroy seized small arms and light weapons and ammunition. GOAL 7. Significantly decrease the risk of proliferation and diversion of firearms, ammunition and explosives. ROADMAP: GOALS
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 1. Number of legal frameworks on arms control throughout the Western Balkans fully harmonized with the EU legislation, the Arms Trade Treaty and the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition (The Firearms Protocol; 7. Firearms Focal Points established and operational in each jurisdiction of the Western Balkans; 8. Number of inter-institutional cooperation cases at operational level, including investigation, prosecution and pretrial phases; 9. Number of cases of operational cooperation sourced from intelligence information including ballistic intelligence in the fight against firearms related crimes, with authorities in the region, EU member states and agencies as well as international law enforcement agencies; 2. Number of evidence based arms control policy documents, developed in each jurisdiction of the Western Balkans, that are also addressing needs of men, women, boys and girls; 3. Number of cases, individuals and quantity of misused and trafficked firearms, ammunition and explosives (FAE) prosecuted and adjudicated in comparison to the number of law enforcement reports on seizures; 10. Number of incidents involving firearms and victims affected by the misuse of firearms, disaggregated by gender and age, in each jurisdiction of the Western Balkans; 11. Number of FAE voluntarily surrendered, as well as firearms legalized or deactivated; 4. Number of cases and quantity of FAE seized inland compared to the number of cases and quantity of FAE seized at the borders; 12. Number of reported SALW/firearms, ammunition, and explosives confiscated or surplus systematically destroyed; 5. Number of reported cases of FAE seized at the borders of the European Union and traced to the Western Balkans, compared to the number of FAE seized throughout the European Union and traced to or diverted from the Western Balkans; 13. Number of SALW/firearms and their ammunition storage facilities in line with international safety and security standards; 6. Number of FAE for which export licenses were issued by the Western Balkans identified as diverted through post-shipment control procedure; 14. Percentage of citizens satisfaction (disaggregated by age and gender) or feeling of safety on armed violence across the Western Balkans.
European Union Contribution to SEESAC in Implementing the Roadmap For a Sustainable Solution to the Illegal Possession, Misuse and Trafficking of SALW/Firearms and Their Ammunition in the Western Balkans; ROADMAP IMPLEMENTATION: COORDINATION AND M&E FRAMEWORK Timeframe: 2019-2021
1. Coordinated implementation of the Roadmap for a sustainable solution to the illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of SALW/firearms and their ammunition in the Western Balkans; 2. Support to the full harmonisation of the Western Balkans authorities' arms-control legislation with the Union regulatory framework and other related international obligations, and standardisation across the region; OBJECTIVES 3. Support for countering illicit arms trafficking in the Western Balkans, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus through capacity assessments as well as technical assistance to the law-enforcement and border-police authorities.
Assessments and gap analysis of partners' legal frameworks on SALW control and of the level of harmonization with EU and international legislation, as well as the level of standardization of procedures in the region; Support to the authorities in the Western Balkans in fully harmonizing arms-control legislation with the EU Regulatory Framework and related international obligations, and standards across the region. Regional workshops and thematic workshops for the beneficiaries on arms laws, regulations and criminal codes; Provision of on-demand expertise on legislative and policy updates; Updated arms-law compendium translated into all of the relevant languages of the region; Gender-screening of the arms legal framework; Gender Coach Programme and training on media strategy development.
Needs assessment of the border-police and criminal- police services of the Western Balkans in countering illicit arms trafficking; Countering illicit arms trafficking in the Western Balkans, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus through capacity assessments and technical assistance to the law-enforcement and Border Police authorities Strengthened capacity of ballistics experts and investigators for addressing cross border firearm-related criminality, including through procurement of specialized equipment in support of the Firearms Focal Points; Implemented pilot on operational ballistic information- exchange structure; Assessment of capacities of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus for selected aspects of SALW control, with identified targeted interventions.
Formal regional Roadmap coordination meetings focusing on progress and information exchange (2xyear); Support to local coordination meetings (2xyear); ROADMAP IMPLEMENTATION: Biannual M&E reports documenting the progress, challenges and needs in the Roadmap implementation, against the KPIs; Monitoring & Evaluation Framework Mid-term evaluation including capacity assessments prepared for the 6 Roadmap beneficiaries by 2021;
