Division 1.2 The iTrace project, however, faces sustained calls by Member States to provide direct, face‐to‐face briefings to national arms export licensing authorities (including frequent visits to capitals) and to provide a greater range of resources bilaterally to Member State arms export control policy makers.

This Decision therefore aims to continue and enhance the work of the project under Decision (CFSP) 2017/2283 by further providing Union policy makers, arms control experts and arms export control officers with systematically compiled, relevant information, which will support them in developing effective, evidence-based strategies against the diversion and illicit spread of conventional arms and their ammunition in order to improve international and regional security. It will thus continue to support them to combine a successful reactive strategy with adequate preventive action to address illegal supply and demand, and to ensure effective conventional arms control in third countries.