The EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Second EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference
2013-09-30 - 2013-10-01 | Crowne Plaza, Le Palace, Rue Gineste 3, Brussels, B-1210
More than 300 experts have gathered in Brussels on the 30 September-1 October 2013 to discuss the spread of nuclear and other dangerous weapons. In accordance with the Consortium division of labour, IISS took on the main organizing role for the conference. Introductory Remarks were given by Maciej Popowski, Deputy Secretary General, European External Action Service (EEAS). Keynote address was given by Dr Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Evening Keynote Speech was given by Linas Linkevicius, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania. All the Plenary Sessions, introductory remarks and keynote addresses were recorded on video and are available through this website.
For additional information on the Conference, please see the dedicated Conference website of IISS.
General Documents
Speaker agenda
Plenary and Special Sessions: videos, speech transcripts, Q & A

Introduction to the meeting and Keynote Speech – by Maciej Popowski and Dr Lassina Zerbo
First Plenary Session – Strengthening The Non-Proliferation & Disarmament Regime

Jacek Bylica
Patricia Lewis
Tibor Toth
Angela Kane
Questions & Answers

Evening Keynote Address – by Linas Linkevicius
Second Plenary Session – Addressing Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the Middle East

Jaakko Laajava
Mahmoud Karem
Shlomo Brom
Questions & Answers

Third Plenary Session – EU Non-Proliferation Policy and Implementation

Joëlle Jenny
Lars-Erik Lundin
Tarja Cronberg
Andrew Cottey
Questions & Answers

Special Sessions

Addressing Bio Risks
Ballistic Missiles & Outer Space: Transparency & Confidence Building
Strategic Trade Controls
Regional Security & Proliferation Challenges In Northeast Asia
Nuclear Security
Countering Illicit SALW Trafficking
The 2015 NPT Review Process: Challenges & Opportunities
Controlling Chemical Weapons
Arms Trade Treaty: the Way Forward
Nuclear Disarmament (Multilateral, bilateral and humanitarian initiative)
Assessing the Efficacy of Sanctions Policy

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Conference Photo Gallery
The Conference online photo album is available on Flickr.

Second Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
2013-06-17 - 2013-06-18 | Hotel Silken Berlaymont Brussels, 11-19, Boulevard Charlemagne, Brussels, 1000, Belgique
Final Program
Monday, June 17, 2013

Welcome and Introduction into the Meeting

9:00 – 10:00 : Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:00 – 10:15 : Welcome Address and Introduction to the Meeting

Joëlle Jenny, Director for Security Policy and Conflict Prevention, European External Action Service – Directorate K
Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

1. Session: Regional Proliferation Challenges and Options for the EU

10:15 – 11:15 : The illicit spread of SALW in areas of weak and fragile statehood, especially MENA

Chair: Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Speaker: Patrick McCarthy, United Nations Coordinating Action on Small Arms
Comment: Roy Isbister, Saferworld

11:15 – 12:15 : Implementing the EU Common Position on arms exports: challenges and options

Chair: Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Speaker: Sibylle Bauer, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Comment: Nils Duquet, Flemish Peace Institute

12:15 – 13:45 : Lunch
13:45 – 15:45 : The European Union and programmes of key proliferation concern

Chair: Benjamin Hautecouverture, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Speaker (North Korea): Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies

15:45 – 16:15 : Coffee Break
16:15 – 18:00 : Syria’s multiple proliferation challenges and the European Union’s options

Chair: Erzsébet Rózsa, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs
Speaker: Dina Esfandiary, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Comment: Jean Pascal Zanders, Director, The Trench

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

2. Session: Weapons of Mass Destruction

9:00 – 10:15 : Reflections on the CWC Review Outcome and the BTWC Intersessional Process

Chair: Giorgio Franceschini, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Speaker (CWC): Alexander Kelle, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Speaker (BTWC): Una Becker-Jakob, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

10:15 – 11:30 : Options to Facilitate the CTBT Entry into Force

Chair: Giorgio Franceschini, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Speaker: Rebecca Johnson, Acronym Institute
Comment: Ambassador Alexander Kmentt, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs

11:30 – 12:00 : Coffee break

3. Session: Space and Missiles

12:00 – 13:15 : The Hague Code of Conduct and the EU Space Code of Conduct: long-term challenges and cross-cutting issues

Chair: Ambassador Carlo Trezza, Chairman Designate of MTCR
Speaker: Lucia Marta, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Comment: Max Mutschler, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

13:15 – 14:45 : Lunch

4. Session: EU WMD Policies

14:45 – 16:15 : The EU WMD Strategy after ten years: a critical appraisal and options for amendment (Panel discussion)

Chair: Camille Grand, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Panelists: Ian Anthony, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Łukasz Kulesa, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
Gerrard Quille, European Parliament

16:15 – 16:30 : Further development of the network

Speaker: Camille Grand, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique

Closing of the meeting

Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Jacek Bylica, Principal Adviser and Special Envoy for Non-proliferation and Disarmament, European External Action Service

EU Support of the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations
2013-02-28 - 2013-03-01 | Divonne-les-Bains, Geneva Region
Council Decision 2013/43/CFSP, adopted on the 22nd January 2013, tasks the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium with the organization of two closed seminars bringing together 30 to 40 governmental experts in order to facilitate the successful completion of negotiation of an ATT at the March 2013 UN Conference, on the basis of the draft Treaty text of 26th July 2012, to identify the means of bringing the Treaty swiftly into force, the best practices at both national and regional level, and the facets of international assistance with the Treaty’s implementation. The EU has encouraged the ATT negotiation process since 2006 and two decisions have previously been adopted, in 2009 and 2010, in support of the on-going process.

Seminar 1

Divonne-les-Bains, Geneva Region, 28 February – 1 March 2013

Agenda
Seminar Report

Seminar 2

Geneva, 17 – 18 June 2013

Agenda
Seminar Report

Draft Treaty
The draft of the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, New York, 2-27 July 2012, July 26, 2012
EU Documents

Council Decision 2013/43/CFSP on continued Union activities in support of the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations, in the framework of the European Security Strategy, January 22, 2013
Opening Statement of the EU at the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, New York, July 2, 2012
Statement of the EU at the Preparatory Committee for the Arms Trade Treaty on Final Provisions of the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, New York, July 13, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Preparatory Committee for the Arms Trade Treaty on Specific Aspects of the Implementation Mechanism of the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, New York, July 12, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Preparatory Committee for the Arms Trade Treaty on Transparency Provisions and Implementation Support Unit of the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, New York, July 12, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Preparatory Committee for the Arms Trade Treaty on General Aspects of the Implementation Mechanism of the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, New York, July 11, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – General Comments on the Revised Chair’s Draft Paper, New York, March 4, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – General Comments on the Revised Chair’s Draft Paper, New York, March 3, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – International Cooperation and Assistance, New York, March 2, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – Parameters of an Arms Trade Treaty, New York, March 1, 2011
Statement of the EU at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – Scope of an Arms Trade Treaty, New York, February 28, 2011
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – On International Cooperation and Assistance, New York, July 21, 2010
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – On the Implementation and Application of the Arms Trade Treaty, New York, July 19, 2010
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – On the Scope of an ATT, New York, July 15, 2010
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – On the Chair’s Draft Elements of an Arms Trade Treaty, New York, July 15, 2010
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – On Chair’s Draft Principles, New York, July 15, 2010
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – On the Principles Governing the Arms Trade Treaty, New York, July 14, 2010
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty – On the Elements of the Arms Trade Treaty, New York, July 13, 2010
Statement of the EU at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, New York, July 12, 2010
Council Decision 2010/336/CFSP on EU activities in support of the Arms Trade Treaty, in the framework of the European Security Strategy, June 14, 2010
Council Decision 2009/42/CFSP on support for EU activities in order to promote among third countries the process leading towards an Arms Trade Treaty, in the framework of the European Security Strategy, January 19, 2009

Publications of the Consortium

Arms Trade Treaty assistance: identifying a role for the European Union, Mark Bromley and Paul Holtom, Non-Proliferation Discussion Paper, February 2014, 18p.
The European Union’s Involvement In Negotiating an Arms Trade Treaty, Sara Depauw, Non-Proliferation paper, No.23, December 2012, 16p.

Latest Publications from the Network

Arms Trade Treaty: What prospects for 2013 after the failure of negotiations in July 2012?, Virginie Moreau, Note d’analyse, (in French) Group for research and information on peace and security – GRIP, December 3, 2012, 12p.
Measuring International Arms Transfers, Paul Holtom, Mark Bromley, Verena Simmel, SIPRI Fact Sheet, December 2012, 8p., Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Arms Trade Treaty: EU priorities before March 2013 negotiations, Cédric Poitevin, Note d’analyse, Group for research and information on peace and security – GRIP, November 28, 2012, 4p.
Implementing an Arms Trade Treaty: mapping assistance to strengthen arms transfer controls, Paul Holtom, Mark Bromley, SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security, No. 2012/2 July 2012, 20p., Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Un traité pour réguler les transferts d’armes : défis et opportunités, (in French), M.Finaud, GCSP Web Editorial, 26 June 2012
A Treaty to Regulate Arms Transfers: Challenges and Opportunities, M.Finaud, GCSP Web Editorial, 25 June 2012
The arms trade treaty. Challenges for 2012 (in French), Virginie Moreau, GRIP Rapport n° 2011/6, 37 pp.
Technology transfers and the Arms Trade Treaty – Issues and Perspectives, Bruno Gruselle, Perrine Le Meur, in Recherches & Documents, No 2/2012, March 2012, 28p.
Towards the 2012 Arms Trade Treaty Negotiation Conference, Wilton Park Conference, Conference report for WP1136, 6p., November 2011
Import Controls and an Arms Trade Treaty, Mark Bromley and Paul Holtom, SIPRI Background Paper, July 2011
Implementing an arms trade treaty: Lessons on Reporting and Monitoring from Existing Mechanisms, Paul Holtom and Mark Bromley, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 28, July 2011
Transit and Trans-Shipment Controls in an Arms Trade Treaty, Paul Holtom and Mark Bromley , SIPRI Background Paper, July 2011
Arms transfers to Zimbabwe: implications for an arms trade treaty, Lukas Jeuck, SIPRI Background Paper, 12 pp., March 2011

First EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference
2012-02-03 - 2012-02-04 | Crowne Plaza, Le Palace, Rue Gineste 3, Brussels, B-1210
More than 200 experts gathered in Brussels on the 3-4 February 2012 to discuss the spread of nuclear and other dangerous weapons. The EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference took place just as the EU imposed a ban on Iranian oil sales in an effort to persuade Tehran back to the nuclear negotiating table. In accordance with the Consortium division of labour, IISS took on the main organizing role for the conference. The keynote address was given by Hans Blix, the former Director General of the IAEA. All the Plenary Sessions were recorded on video and are available through this website. Furthermore, summaries of the Plenary Sessions can be downloaded, as well as the Plenary and Special Sessions transcripts.
For additional information on the Conference, please see the dedicated Conference website of IISS.
General Documents

Final agenda
List of delegates

Plenary Sessions: videos, speech transcripts, Q&A and summaries

Introduction – by Mark Fitzpatrick
Welcoming Comments – by Maciej Popowski
First Plenary Session – Strengthening the NPT

Boguslaw Winid
David Hannay
George Perkovich
Questions & Answers
Session Summary

Keynote Address – by Hans Blix
Second Plenary Session – Non-proliferation and security in the Middle East

Prince Turki Al Faisa
Bernd Kubbig
Sameh Aboul-Enein
Ariel Levite
Questions & Answers
Session Summary

Third Plenary Session – EU non-proliferation policy and implementation

Annalisa Giannella
François Rivasseau
Werner Bauwens
Questions & Answers
Session Summary

Fourth Plenary Session – Iranian Nuclear Issue

Pierre Goldschmidt
Maurizio Martellini
Erzsébet Rózsa
Questions & Answers
Session Summary

Closing Comments – by Mara Marinaki

Special Sessions: transcripts

Special Session 1 – Reducing Biological Risks and Chemical Weapons Threats
Special Session 2 – Space and Missile Proliferation
Special Session 3 – Combating Proliferation-Related Crimes
Special Session 4 – Nuclear Security
Special Session 5 – Conventional Arms Trade and Trafficking
Special Session 6 – Proliferation Case Studies: North Korea, Pakistan, Syria

Photos

The Conference online photo album is available on Flickr

EU Consortium Middle East international seminars
2011-07-06 - 2011-07-07 | Brussels – Belgium
First EU Consortium Middle East Seminar (July 2011)
Seminar Background Papers

The dynamics of missile proliferation in the Middle East and North Africa
by Stéphane Delory
Nuclear capabilities in the Middle East
by Mark Fitzpatrick
Peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the Middle East: multilateral approaches
by Giorgio Franceschini and Daniel Müller
A Zone free of WMD and means of delivery in the Middle East: an assessment of the multilateral diplomatic process, 1974–2010 by Benjamin Hautecouverture and Raphaëlle Mathiot
The Arms Control and Regional Security Working Group: still relevant to the Middle East?
by Peter Jones
A weapons of mass destruction-free zone in the Middle East: an incremental approach
by Harald Müller and Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
Status of non-proliferation treaties, agreements, and other related instruments in the Middle East
by David Santoro
Conventional strategic military capabilities in the Middle East
by Pieter D. Wezeman

Other Documents

Agenda
Final Assessment, by Camille Grand, Chairman of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Second EU Consortium Middle East Seminar (November 2012)
Seminar Background Papers

Making Peace Attractive: Negotiated Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians
by Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
Building Confidence over Biological Matters in the Middle East
by Una Becker-Jakob
A Middle East Zone free of Weapons of Mass Destruction – the subject of a Helsinki meeting projected for 2012
by Hans Blix
The Middle East Regional Security Regime and CSBMs
by Shlomo Brom
Building confidence towards a MEWMDFZ via a Chemical Weapons ban
by Dina Esfandiary
The Regional Security Environment and Basic Principles for the Relations of the Members of the Zone
by Nabil Fahmy
Promoting nuclear safety and nuclear security in the Middle East region
by Mark Fitzpatrick
Towards WMDFZ in the Middle East: Biological Confidence-Building Measures
by David Friedman
A Top Down Approach to a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East
by Pierre Goldschmidt
Curbing missile proliferation in the Middle East: Options for a comprehensive policy
by Bruno Gruselle
A Middle East free of Missiles and Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Iranian View
by Nasser Hadian
The Regional Security Architecture and Other Confidence Building Measures
by Peter Jones
Conceptualizing CSBMs Proper Vehicles (DVs) Sector for the Middle East Conference (MEC)
by Bernd W. Kubbig
Assessing the relevance of nuclear CBMs to a WMD arms control process in the Middle East today
by Emily Landau
Reflection on ‘The Regional Security Environment and basic Principles for the Relations of the Members of the Zone’
by Ariel (Eli) Levite
Tiptoe, stride and leap: steps towards a WMD- free Middle East
by Patricia Lewis
A Regional Arrangement on Securing Radiological Agents as a CSBM: Common Interest in Preventing Radiological Terrorism
by Aviv Melamud and Nilsu Gören
The Iran Nuclear Dilemma: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy and NPT’s Main Objectives
by Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Building Confidence vis-à-vis Transitional Egypt
by Daniel Müller
Basic principles for a process leading to the establishment of a Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Harald Müller
Missiles and Other Means of Delivery in the Middle East
by Uzi Rubin
The Issue of ‘Delivery Systems’ in a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Carlo Trezza
A think piece on confidence-building measures in the Middle East
by Sinan Ülgen
Biological and Chemical Weapons and the Prospective Disarmament Process in the Middle East
by Jean Pascal Zanders

Other Documents

Seminar Reader

Seminar Agenda
Monday, 5 November, 2012

09:00 – 10:00 Accreditation, Coffee
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

10:15 – 12:00

Plenary Session I: Parameters and Properties of a Zone free of WMD in the Middle East and Basic Principles for a Regional Security Architecture
10:15 – 11:00 Presentations
11:00 – 12:00 General Discussion
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Breakout Sessions I: Confidence Building and Technical Measures in the Area of WMD and Means of Delivery
Nuclear Confidence Building and Technical Measures
14:00 – 14:30 Presentations
14:30 – 15:30 Discussion
Biological and Chemical Confidence Building and Technical Measures
14:00 – 14:30 Presentations
14:30 – 15:30 Discussion
Missiles and Other Means of Delivery
14:00 – 14:30 Presentations
14:30 – 15:30 Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

16:00 – 17:30

Breakout Sessions II: Confidence Building Measures Improving Regional Peace and Security
Improving the Regional Security Architecture and Other Confidence Building Measures
16:00 – 16:30 Presentations
16:30 – 17:30 Discussion
Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Safety and Security
16:00 – 16:30 Presentations
16:30 – 17:30 Discussion
19:00 Cocktail
20:00 Dinner, Keynote Speech

Tuesday, 6 November, 2012
09:00 – 10:30
Plenary Session II: Assessing Confidence Building Measures within a Process Leading up to the Establishment of a MEWMDFZ
09:00 – 09:30 Presentations
09:30 – 10:30 General Discussion10:30 – 11:00Coffee11:00 – 12:40
Plenary Session III: Report of the Chairs of the Breakout Sessions – Gauging Common Ground
11:00 – 11:40 Report of the Chairs
11:40 – 12:40 General Discussion12:40 – 13:00Conclusion & Farewell13:00 – 14:00Lunch

First Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
2011-05-23 - 2011-05-24 | Conference Centre Albert Borschette (CCAB), 36 rue Froissart, Brussels, B- 1040
Final Program

Monday, May 23, 2011

Welcome

9:00 – 10:00 : Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:00 – 10:15 : Welcome Address and Introduction to the Meeting

Annalisa Giannella, European External Action Service (EEAS)
Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

1. Session: EU policy

10:15 – 11:15 : Implementation of the EU Strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Speaker: Peter van Ham, Clingendael, Netherlands

11:15 – 12:15 : “New lines for action” implementation: Where are the Gaps?

Speaker: Vicente Garrido Rebolledo, INCIPE, Spain

12:15 – 13:45 : Lunch

2. Session: Weapons of Mass Destruction

13:45 – 15:00 : The Iranian problem: Is a diplomatic solution still possible?

Speaker: Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), United Kingdom / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

15:00 – 16:15 : The NPT after the 2010 Review Conference

Speaker: Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

16:15 – 16:45 : Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:00 : Strengthening the BWC: Options for the 2011 Review Conference

Speaker: Cindy Vestergaard, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark

19:30 – 21:30 : Conference dinner at the Hotel Silken Berlaymont, 11-19, Boulevard Charlemagne, B- 1000 Brussels

Dinner speech: Ambassador Mara Marinaki, Managing Director for Global and Multilateral Issues, EEATuesday, May 24, 2011

3. Session: Space and Missiles

9:00 – 10:15 : Space: Options for Arms Control?

Speaker: Sergio Marchisio, European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) / Rome University, Italy

10:15 – 11:30 : Missile proliferation: Extending missile non-proliferation tools – new initiatives

Speaker: Stéphane Delory, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), France

11:30 – 12:00 : Coffee break

4. Session: Conventional Weapons

12:00 – 13:15 : The UN SALW Action Program: Implementation of EU SALW strategy towards the 2012 Review Conference

Speaker: Cedric Poitevin, Groupe de recherche et d’information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP), Belgium

13:15 – 14:45 : Lunch
14:45 – 16:00 : Arms Trade Treaty

Speaker: Paul Holtom, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden

5. Outlook and Closing of the Meeting

16:00 – 17:00 : Further development of the network

Speaker: Camille Grand and Benjamin Hautecouverture, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), France / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Closing of the meeting

Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
Annalisa Giannella, European External Action Service (EEAS)
