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The Federal Republic of Germany signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 23 July 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. In April 2011, Germany submitted its 13th Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report.
Germany produced, imported, and exported mines. Production was renounced in April 1996, and a 1994 export moratorium was made permanent in 1996. Legislation to enforce the antipersonnel mine prohibition domestically entered into force on 9 July 1998.
Germany destroyed its stockpile of 1.7 million antipersonnel mines in December 1997. Germany initially retained 3,000 mines for training and development purposes, which was reduced to 2,201 mines by the end of 2010.[1] On 3 March 2011, 22,716 antipersonnel mines entered Germany from Turkey in order to be destroyed.[2]
Germany served as co-rapporteur of the Standing Committee on Technologies for Mine Action (1999–2000) and as co-rapporteur and then co-chair of the Standing Committees on Mine Clearance (2000–2002) and General Status and Operation of the Convention (2006–2008).
Germany attended Tenth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in November–December 2010, as well as the intersessional Standing Committee meetings in Geneva in June 2011.
Germany is party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons and its Amended Protocol II on landmines and Protocol V on explosive remnants of war.
[1] Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 Report, Form D, April 2011.
[2]Statement of Germany, Mine Ban Treaty Standing Committee Meeting on Stockpile Destruction, Geneva, 20 June 2011, www.apminebanconvention.org.
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