European Code Of Conduct On Arms Sales

EDM number 30 in 1995-96, proposed by Chris Davies on 15/11/1995.

That this House calls for the establishment of a European Code of Conduct for the production and selling of arms; calls for the inclusion of the Code of Export Guidelines and criteria for the categorisation of importing countries and common lists of arms and dual use technologies subject to regulation; calls for European Union-wide moves to end government promotion, financial support and export credit insurance for arms exports except for defensive use; and calls for the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference to amend the Treaty of Rome to extend the European Union's competence to include controls on export of arms and dual use technologies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.