Treaty Texts & Fact Sheets

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)

TREATY TEXT: Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects as Amended on 21 December 2001

AMENDMENT: 2004 Amendment to Article 1

PROTOCOL: Protocol I: Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments

PROTOCOL: Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices

AMENDMENT: Amended Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as Amended on 3 May 1996

PROTOCOL: Protocol III: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons

PROTOCOL: Protocol IV: Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons

PROTOCOL: Protocol V: Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War

FACT SHEET: U.S. Declarations, Understandings and Reservations upon Ratification of CCW Protocols (2009)

FACT SHEET: List of States Parties (as of May 2009)

REPORT: Procedural Report on Cluster Munitions, adopted at the Second Session, Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) in April 2009

REPORT: Meeting of the CCW High Contracting States Parties Report (2008)

REPORT: U.S. Annual Report on Compliance with Amended Protocol II (2008)

REPORT: Third Review Conference Final Report (2006)