Division Description

Since 2010, SEESAC has successfully been using a two-pronged approach of: (1) improving the security of storage locations; and (2) building the capacity of the personnel tasked with managing stockpiles, significantly increasing security provisions and reducing the risk of the unwanted proliferation of stockpiles of SALW and their ammunition. In line with a comprehensive approach to PSSM of SALW and their ammunition, the new phase will expand this approach by merging it with the reduction of surpluses, therefore further reducing the risks of proliferation. Therefore, the project will continue to improve the security of weapons and ammunition storage in SEE by providing further specific technical and infrastructural assistance in line with international best practices and standards.

While security in military storage locations has been significantly increased under Council Decision 2013/730/CFSP, SEESAC has identified police and MoI stocks as an area of concern due to the lack of capacity for safeguarding, inadequate record-keeping and stockpile management capabilities, and more complex systems which include formation weapons as well as confiscated firearms. Therefore, this component will support the MoIs and police services with a view to:

• increasing security of stockpiles through cost-effective targeted infrastructure upgrades at police storage facilities in Albania, BiH, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo. The upgrades will focus on central police storages as well as evidence rooms in main police stations with a view to providing the most efficient and cost-effective increase to the security of the stockpiles;

• destroying up to 50 000 surplus and confiscated SALW in the region, as well as up to 500 000 pieces of SALW ammunition;

• providing capacity development through the training of a regional pool of MoI trainers and support for national training sessions on PSSM based on the SEESAC curricula piloted under Council Decision 2013/730/CFSP.