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?)
5. It is clear that CIDA’s opinion covers not only measures planned for use but also measures applicable to the design of such munitions/submunitions. These views are reproduced below as being of interest.
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(vii) In all projects for and designs of new weapons, the Argentine Republic has carried out the checks called for under article 36 of the Additional Protocol of 1977, and has thus complied with the emerging rules relating to the updated principle of limitation based on article 35[.]
Replies to Document CCW/GGE/X/WG.1/WP.2, entitled “International Humanitarian Law and ERW”, dated 8 March 2005: Reply from the Argentine Republic (2 August 2005) CCW/GGE/XI/WG.1/WP.10
