With respect to possible approaches to the implementation of the weapons review process, we would like to share our respective national format. In order to foster the implementation of the obligation under Article 36 AP I, Germany has established a Steering Group “Review of new Weapons and Methods of Warfare” within the German Federal Ministry …
Technology develops in unforeseeable ways and comes in virtually unlimited varieties of shapes and modes of action. Fundamental principles of International Humanitarian Law in tune with this challenge avoid for good reasons specifications of particular technologies. The general-abstract approach of International Humanitarian Law keeps it applicable also to future technologies by focusing on effects of …
A number of delegations including Germany have already presented the general outline of their national legal review procedures under Article 36 AP I during this week. We see merit in elaborating further on the idea to share national regulations in this regard, to look for common standards and to discuss specific procedures for detecting transgressions …
… in relation to article 36 weapons reviews and processes, we are strongly supportive of efforts to increase scrutiny over the development and use of weapons, means and methods of warfare, including in the context of legal reviews under additional protocol I. We think this week’s discussion clearly shows that the legality, morality and desirability …
