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1 Ministry for Foreign Affairs Sweden Article 7 Report Covering 2011 CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE, STOCKPILING, PRODUCTION AND TRANSFER OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION 1

2 COVER PAGE 1 OF THE ANNUAL ARTICLE 7 REPORT NAME OF STATE [PARTY]: _SWEDEN REPORTING PERIOD: 01/01/2011 to _31/12/2011 Form A: National implementation measures: Form B: Stockpiled anti-personnel mines: Form C: Location of mined areas: Form D: APMs retained or transferred: un Form E: Status of conversion programmes: Form F: Programme of APM destruction: Form G: APM destroyed: Form H: Technical characteristics: Form I: Warning measures: Form J: Other Relevant Matters: un 1 Notes on using the cover page: 1. The cover page could be used as a complement to submitting detailed forms adopted at the [First and Second] Meetings of the States parties in instances when the information to be provided in some of the forms in an annual report is the same as it would be in past reports. That is, when using the cover page, only forms within which there is new information would need to be submitted. 2. The cover page could be used as a substitute for submitting detailed forms adopted at the [First and Second] Meetings of the States parties only if all of the information to be provided in an annual report is the same as in past reports. 3. If an indication is made on the cover sheet that the information to be provided with respect to a particular form would be un in relationship to a previous year s form, the date of submission of the previous form should be clearly indicated. 2

3 CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE, STOCKPILING, PRODUCTION AND TRANSFER OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION Reporting Formats for Article 7 STATE [PARTY]: POINT OF CONTACT: SWEDEN Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, phone: , fax: , ud-nis@foreign.ministry.se 3

4 Form D Article 7.1 APMs retained or transferred "Each State Party shall report to the Secretary-General... on: d) The types, quantities and, if possible, lot numbers of all anti-personnel mines retained or transferred for the development of and training in mine detection, mine clearance or mine destruction techniques, or transferred for the purpose of destruction, as well as the institutions authorized by a State Party to retain or transfer anti-personnel mines, in accordance with Article 3" State[Party]: SWEDEN reporting for time period from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2011 1a. Compulsory: Retained for development of and training in (Article 3, para.1) Institution authorized by State Party Type Quantity Lot # (if possible) Supplementary information Swedish Armed Forces Truppmina In 2011: No mines were used for training of personnel. No mines were used for development of mine clearance techniques. Swedish Armed Forces Trampmina m/49b 4527 In 2011: 51 mines were used for training. SAAB Bofors Test Center Trampmina m/49b SAAB Bofors Test Center Truppmina 10 Swedish Armed Forces PMR 2A MRUD TOTAL In 2011: No mines were used for development of new demining techniques or any other purpose. In 2011: No mines were used for development of new demining techniques or any other purpose Foreign antipersonnel mines. In 2011: 5 PMR 2A were used for training. 4

5 Form D (continued) 2. Compulsory: Transferred for development of and training in (Article 3, para.1) Institution authorized by State Party No mines have left Sweden for such purposes TOTAL Type Quantity Lot # (if possible) Supplementary information: e.g. transferred from, transferred to 3. Compulsory: Transferred for the purpose of destruction (Article 3, para.2) Institution authorized by State Party No mines have left Sweden for such purposes TOTAL Type Quantity Lot # (if possible) Supplementary information: e.g. transferred from, transferred to 5

6 Form J Other relevant matters Remark: States Parties may use this form to report voluntarily on other relevant matters, including matters pertaining to compliance and implementation not covered by the formal reporting requirements contained in Article 7. States Parties are encouraged to use this form to report on activities undertaken with respect to Article 6, and in particular to report on assistance provided for the care and rehabilitation, and social and economic reintegration, of mine victims. State[Party]: SWEDEN reporting for time period from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2011 During the period covered by this report (2011), Sweden has contributed at least 79,210,411SEK to mine actions (incl. cluster munitions and ERW). Most of this was channelled through the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). For details, see table 1 below. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) is operational in the field of mine action in support of primarily UNMAS and the ICRC. MSB has an EOD rapid response capacity, as well as expertise in fields such as mechanical clearance, mine detection dogs and IMSMA. In the reporting period MSB has deployed rapid response support to the Ivory Coast, Libya and South Sudan and has conducted long-term mechanical clearance operations in the Katanga Province in DRC. In 1997, Sweden established SWEDEC, a centre for military mine clearance and explosive ordnance disposal as well as humanitarian demining. SWEDEC is the country's focal point on technical matters, development education and training. Today SWEDEC is focused on education and training of individual officers and military units on Conventional Munitions Disposal (CMD) and Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD) as well as related research and development. SWEDEN is lead nation in the user group for EOD IS where SWEDEC offers an important contribution. Also SWEDEC contributes to relevant IT (IMSMA) development for UNMAS through GICHD. 6

7 Table 1: Swedish assistance in mine action (including cluster munitions) 2011 Contributions by recipient and sector Clearance Clearance Sector Recipient Country Afghanistan DR Congo Recipient Organization/Instit ution Folke Bernadotte Academy; AFG Land Mine Clearing, DDG i.a. MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency), UNMAS Amount in donor currency SEK SEK Clearance Iraq DDG, MAG SEK Sida Clearance Ivory Coast MSB, UNMAS SEK Sida Clearance Libya MSB, UNMAS SEK Sida Clearance South Sudan MSB, UNMAS SEK Sida Clearance Misc. Geneva Call, Geneva Internatioal Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition/Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor SEK Sida Clearance Misc. Misc. SEK Sida, Humanitarian Aid Unit Clearance Uganda DDG SEK Ministry for Foreign Affairs Stockpile destruction, cluster Georgia OSCE SEK Ministry for Foreign Affairs munitions Total SEK 79,210,411 Donor Government Agency/Department Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Sida 7