What measures have been taken by your State to implement those existing principles of international humanitarian law that are considered by your State as relevant to the use of munitions, including submunitions, that may become ERW?
In answering this question, States may like to address, among other issues, the following specific questions: …
(v) Does your State have a mechanism to review the legality of new weapons, methods of warfare and military doctrine? (If yes, what is the legal basis for those systems?)
16. In compliance with Article 36 Additional Protocol I every new weapon, means or method of warfare is made subject to an examination with the purpose of determining if its employment would be in some or all circumstances prohibited according to Additional Protocol I or according to any other internationally or nationally binding norm.
Responses to Document CCW/GGE/X/WG.1/WP.2, Entitled IHL and ERW, Dated 8 March 2005: Response from Austria (4 August 2005) CCW/GGE/XI/WG.1/WP.14
