Reporting In Review: Examining ATT Reporting Experiences (2017)
Analysis of Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) initial and annual reporting as of 2017 for insight into reporting trends, common challenges, and best practices
August 31, 2017

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As a mechanism to ensure States understand and enforce their treaty obligations, regular and comprehensive initial and annual reporting is a cornerstone of ATT implementation. This ATT-BAP report provides insight into the national experience of ATT reporting. It summarizes common reporting trends as of 2017 (covering the first two years of ATT initial and annual reporting), details the challenges States encounter in completing both types of reports, and provides a series of recommendations that States can adopt to support ATT reporting completion and compliance.

This ATT-BAP report examines the challenges and obstacles to ATT reporting and identifies good practice and opportunities to support ATT reporting efforts. The report is divided into six sections. Section one describes the methodology for assessing States’ reporting experiences. Section two provides an overview of the level of reporting by ATT States Parties as of 31 May 2017. Section three offers insight on States’ processes in completing their initial reports on ATT implementation and their annual reports on arms exports and imports. Section four highlights challenges States faced when preparing their reports, and section five highlights good practices that could mitigate some reporting challenges and support the completion of the ATT reports. The sixth and final section offers a series of recommendations to support reporting efforts.

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