Electronic systems, through which information essential to the effective operation of the grouping, major formation, tactical formation, unit, ship, subunit or weapons under command is entered, processed and transmitted.

IHL comprises rules that seek to protect persons who are not, or are no longer, taking direct part in hostilities — such as civilians, prisoners of war and other detainees, and the injured and sick — as well as to restrict the means and methods of warfare — including tactics and weaponry — in order to avoid unnecessary suffering and destruction.

– having regard to the fact that all European Union Member States are States Parties to the major multilateral agreements that make up the non-proliferation regime, namely the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and that two Member States, the UK and France, are nuclear-weapon states as defined in the NPT, and that US tactical weapons are stationed on the territories of many more Member States: Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Greece, the Netherlands and Belgium and states apply ...[+++]ing for EU membership, Turkey in particular;

The focus of our delegation, in which we are meeting with the foreign minister, Mr. Graham, and the defence minister, Mr. McCallum, is our briefing paper, which is entitled “Priorities for Preserving the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in the New Strategic Context”. It makes six recommendations, and I will just name them: strategic arms reductions; control of missile defences and non-proliferation of missiles; tactical arms reductions; non-use of nuclear weapons; ban on nuclear testing; and control of fissile materials.

Commission approves a joint venture between SNPE and MBDA in the field of solid rocket motors for tactical weapons

The venture will combine SNPE's and MBDA's respective activities in solid rocket motors for tactical military devices.