Article 1

With a view to the implementation of the EU Strategy against Illicit Firearms, Small Arms &Light Weapons and their Ammunition entitled ‘Securing Arms, Protecting Citizens’ (‘the EU SALW Strategy’), and to the promotion of peace and security, the OAS project on reducing the threat of the illicit spread and trafficking of SALW and their ammunition in Latin America and the Caribbean to be supported by the Union shall have the following specific objectives:

• Strengthen physical security and management systems for national military and other institutional stockpiles through improved site security measures and inventory control,

• Reinforce national capabilities for destruction of seized, excess or unsafe SALW and ammunition,

• Enhance national SALW marking and tracing capacity and foment regional cooperation on tracing confiscated weapons and ammunition,

• Improve SALW transfer mechanisms through national legislation, border controls, and regional coordination, and

• Promote socially responsible behaviours in selected communities, targeting groups that are severely affected by armed violence, including the use of turn-in campaigns or other strategies designed to reduce local incidence of violent crimes.

The Union shall finance the project, a detailed description of which is set out in the Annex.