How Europe Dodges the International Arms Control Regime Cornelisse, Galina Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-03-07 eng
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 F-35 fighter jets are the world's most sophisticated weapon. This post argues that the legal basis for Dutch exports in the F-35 programme shows a worrying disregard for international law regulating arms exports. Dutch legislation does not require the government to carry out a detailed and prior assessment of the export of F-35 components. This is a clear breach of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). What’s more, the Netherlands is not the only European state that blatantly ignores its procedural obligations under the ATT, but countries such as Denmark and the UK have adopted a similar approach. Hence, one wonders whether dodging the ATT regime by European states in the F-35 programme is part and parcel of the negotiation package on commercial contracts with the US CC BY-SA 4.0 Cornelisse, Galina Arms Export Waffenhandel arms control f-35 Waffenhandel 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-europe-dodges-the-international-arms-control-regime/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/ec92535982e6a133 240307 10.59704/ec92535982e6a133 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)