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Article 7: Transparency Reporting

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For the Nairobi Summit, the ICBL hopes to achieve 100% compliance with Article 7 transparency reporting.

What can you do to help?

  • encourage all governments to send their Article 7 transparency reports on time (and electronically if possible) and include comprehensive information in it.
  • encourage new States Parties to submit their initial reports before Nairobi if at all possible, as this would ensure that the information contained there-in could be included, as appropriate, in the Review and Action Plan to come out of the Summit.
  • encourage them to utilise voluntary Form J for reporting on:
    • victim assistance matters;
    • intended purpose and actual use of mines retained under Article 3;
    • Claymore mines and steps taken to ensure they are used in command-detonated mode only (as done by South Africa and Sweden);
    • foreign stockpiles of antipersonnel mines (as done by Tajikistan in their initial Article 7 report).

Late initial reports:

9 SPs are still late in sending their initial report and should do so before the Nairobi Summit.

  • Cape Verde 30/04/02
  • Central African Republic 27/10/03
  • Equatorial Guinea 28/08/99
  • Liberia 28/11/00
  • Namibia 28/08/99
  • Nauru 31/07/01
  • Saint Lucia 29/03/00
  • Saint Vincent-Grenadines 31/07/02
  • Sao Tome e Principe 28/02/04

Article 7 annual updates on the previous calendar year are due on 30 April each year from all States Parties.

Additional initial Article 7 reports due before the Nairobi Summit:

  • Burundi 28/09/04
  • Guyana 30/07/04
  • Greece 28/08/04
  • Turkey 28/08/04
  • Serbia & Montenegro 28/08/04
  • Sudan 28/09/04

Even if the government is not a Party to the Convention, they can voluntarily submit an Article 7 report as an interim step and as a clear demonstration of their intent to join the Convention). Poland, Latvia and Estonia did so in 2003. Lithuania also did so and has since joined the Convention.

Inform them about the VERTIC Guide on Article 7 reports: http://www.vertic.org/research/guide/guide.html