{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1999-730/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1999-730/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/1999/730",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 15 November 1999 implementing Joint Action 1999/34/CFSP with a view to a European Union contribution to combating the destabilising accumulation and spread of small arms and light weapons in Cambodia (1999/730/CFSP)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1999-730",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The European Union shall contribute to promoting the control, collection and destruction of weapons in Cambodia.\n2. For this purpose, the European Union shall:\n(a) assist the government of Cambodia in the development of appropriate laws and regulations on the ownership, possession, use, sale and transfer of arms and ammunition,\n(b) assist the government of Cambodia and the police and security forces to develop guidelines for improved record-keeping and security for weapons held by them,\n(c) assist the government of Cambodia and the police and security forces in developing procedures for voluntary surrender of small arms and for identifying and destroying surplus small arms, particularly in connection with planned demobilisation and restructuring of armed forces,\n(d) support civil society programmes to raise public awareness on problems related to small arms and light weapons and further to develop civil society cooperation with the weapons collection and destruction process, in particular by supporting activities by NGOs.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/1999/730/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:18:54.298420+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}