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Slovakia. 2010 ‘Marking.’ National Report of Slovakia on its Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNPoA), pp. 3-4. New York, NY: Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the United Nations. 1 January

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Marking

The Slovak practices on marking are fully consistent with the best practices established by international instruments, namely: the OSCE Best Practice Guide on Marking, Record Keeping and Traceability of Small Arms and Light Weapons, the Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace in a Timely and Reliable Manner Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, the UN Firearms Protocol, the Wassenaar Best Practice Guidelines for Exports of Small Arms and Light Weapons.

Marking of small arms and light weapons is carried out by the producer in accordance with the Decree adopted by the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 397/1999 Coll., Article 15 which requires establishing details on technical requirements and procedures of conformity approval of SALW and ammunition…

Producers of fire-arms are, in accordance with the international agreements to which the Slovak Republic is a party, required, to use conventional international marks for identification of producer. There is also a weaponry in use which bears domestic military marks and was marked by a representative of individual military production, whereby there used military marks in terms of national legislation in force at that time.

In relation to arms for military use, the Ministry of Defence requests that imported and exported arms are marked with the name of the manufacturer, the country of manufacture and the serial number. Marking of additional information such as the year of manufacture, the weapon type/model and the calibre are also needed.

Regarding small arms and light weapons each manufacturer in Slovakia is obliged to mark each of them with its name, model, year of manufacture and serial number.

[SALW = Small arms and light weapons]

ID: Q4580

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