Press release - EU arms exports: need for more control and transparency

Setting up an interactive online arms exports database

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

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Setting up an interactive online arms exports database
MEPs believe that the publication of the two last reports represents progress towards a common EU position on arms exports.
The rapporteur Hannah Neumann (Greens/EFA, DE) said.. "This report recognizes that increasing European cooperation and EU funding in arms production and development requires EU-level monitoring and control.
We simply say: Where EU money is involved in arms development, we also need an enforceable mechanism for EU control of any future exports.
This would be based on the restrictive application of the eight existing criteria of the EU Common Position on arms exports and allow for sanctions for cases where member states do not comply with these rules."