Prohibition on excessive use of firearms

1. Each State Party shall take legislative, judicial, administrative and other measures as may be necessary to prevent military and security companies and their personnel from employing weapons of mass destruction, including chemical or bacteriological (biological) weapons or other weapons likely to adversely affect the environment, including depleted uranium.

2. Each State Party shall take such legislative, judicial, administrative and other measures as may be necessary to ensure that private military and security companies and their personnel never under any circumstances:

(a) use or threaten to use nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons;

(b) engage in any military or other preparations to use nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons;

(c) develop, test, produce, otherwise acquire, deploy, stockpile, maintain, retain, or transfer nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons;

(d) develop, test, produce, otherwise acquire, deploy, stockpile, maintain, retain, or transfer nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons delivery vehicles;

(f) develop, test, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, maintain, retain, or transfer nuclear weapon, chemical weapons, bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons components or equipment;

(g) participate in and fund research on nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons;

(h) assist, encourage, induce or permit, in any way, directly or indirectly, anyone to engage in any activity, prohibited under this Article.

3. Each State Party shall take legislative, judicial, administrative and other measures as may be necessary to prohibit private military and security companies and their personnel from using firearms, ammunition and equipment as well as methods of conducting fighting and special operations of such character as will cause excessive damage or unnecessary suffering or which are non-selective in their application, or otherwise violate international humanitarian law. In this context each State Party shall take due account of the United Nations Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officers of 17 December 1979[5].

Дата добавления: 2015-07-11