# Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/101 of 22 January 2018 on the promotion of effective arms export controls, Division 5.2.1: Regional workshops

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The project will take the form of up to eight 2-day workshops, providing training in relevant areas of conventional arms export controls.
The participants in the workshop (up to 35) would include government officials of the beneficiary countries covered. Representatives from national parliaments and industry and civil society representatives may also be invited, where appropriate.
Training will be conducted by experts from Member States' national administrations (including former officials), representatives of countries that have aligned themselves with Common Position 2008/944/CFSP, and representatives of the private sector and civil society.
The workshops may take place in a beneficiary country or in another location to be determined by the High Representative, in consultation with the Council Working Party on Conventional Arms Exports (COARM).
The regional workshops will be organised as follows:
(a) up to two workshops for the countries in South-Eastern Europe; Eastern European and Caucasian countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy and Turkey will be invited to at least one of the workshops;
(b) up to two workshops for the Eastern European and Caucasian countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy; South-Eastern Europe countries and Turkey will be invited to at least one of those workshops;
(c) up to two workshops for the North African Mediterranean countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy; Southern Neighbourhood countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy will be invited to at least one of the workshops;
(d) up to two workshops for Central Asia; Eastern European and Caucasian countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy will be invited to at least one of the workshops.
This regional breakdown of two workshops per region may not be achieved if circumstances are not propitious (for example if the number of participants is unexpectedly too low, if there is no serious offer to host by any beneficiary country of the region, or if there is duplication with other activities of other outreach providers). In the event that one or more workshop is not implemented, the number of workshops for the other abovementioned region(s) could be increased accordingly, within the global ceiling of eight workshops.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/101/annex/division/5/division/5.2/division/5.2.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-101/annex/division-5/division-5.2/division-5.2.1
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