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Albania. 2020 ‘National Coordination Infrastructure.’ National Report of Albania on its Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNPoA); Section 1, pp. 3-5. New York NY: Permanent Mission of Albania to the United Nations. 1 January
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National Action Plan
1.3. Does your country have a National Action Plan on SALW? YES
National targets
1.4. Has your country set national targets relating to the implementation of the PoA and ITI? YES
1.4.1. If so, describe
G.1:
- By 2023, ensure that arms control legislation is in place, fully harmonized with the EU regulatory framework and other related international obligations, and standardized across the region.
- Establish a complete legal framework to counter all forms of illicit possession, trafficking and misuse of firearms, ammunition, and explosives (FAE).
- Ensure compatibility of arms control legal frameworks across the Western Balkans, which allows direct operational cooperation.
- Ensure standardization of procedures and practices in the area of arms control and FAE investigations.
G.2:
- By 2024, ensure that arms control policies and practices in Albania are evidence based and intelligence led. - Standardize and institutionalize data collection on firearms, by gender and age, regarding legal and illegal SALW/firearms interdiction, armed violence incidents, ballistic evidence, and other firearms related data resulting in periodic regional FAE risk analysis and threat assessment.
- Strengthen tasking, coordination and monitoring functions of the SALW Commission and Firearms Focal Points, to ensure effective policies on Prevention, Mitigation, Reaction and Suppression of firearms misuse, trafficking and uncontrolled proliferation.
- Institutionalize systematic collection of criminal justice data across the Criminal Justice Sector (at the level of Police, Customs, Prosecutors service, Court Service, Correctional and Penitentiary Services).
- Ensure that every FAE recovered or seized is traced mandatory (domestically and internationally).
- Fully integrate gender and age concerns in SALW/firearms control policies and ensure meaningful participation of women in SALW/firearms control.
G.3:
- By 2024, significantly reduce illicit flows of firearms, ammunition and explosives (FAE) into, within and beyond Albania.
- Ensure full implementation and monitoring of legal, policy and procedural framework on trafficking of FAE. - Prevent trafficking (smuggling, illicit trade and transit) of FAE through improved processes, equipment and training of targeted law enforcement units.
- Substantially strengthen control, monitoring and prevention of diversion of legal trade through improved capacities, procedures and transparency.
- Strengthen existing bilateral, regional and international mechanisms and encouraging new forms of good practice to counter trafficking of firearms.
G.4:
- By 2024, significantly reduce the supply, demand and misuse of firearms through increased awareness, education, outreach and advocacy.
- Increase awareness among licensed private and legal entities about the danger of misuse and illicit proliferation of FAE, including of risk of diversion for FAE producers.
- Develop sustainable partnerships to strengthen advocacy, reinforce outreach and reach messaging multipliers. - Increase awareness among general population, both women and men, on the danger of misuse, illicit possession and trafficking of FAE;
- Increase confidence in security institutions as providers of adequate and equal safety for all, through community-society-regional outreach activities.
G.5:
- By 2024, substantially decrease the estimated number of firearms in illicit possession in Albania. - Substantially increase the number of seized firearms, ammunition and explosives. - Ensure that legal measures are in place allowing legalization and voluntary surrender of firearms and their implementation
- Systematically use deactivation to reduce illegal firearms possession.
- Increase administrative capacities and targeted outreach to complete verification of legally possessed weapons, within envisaged legal time frame, as well as to address adequately found and inherited firearms.
G.6:
- Systematically decrease the surplus and destroy seized small arms and light weapons and ammunition, adhering to environmental standards.
- Systematically destroy all surplus stockpile FAE in an environmentally benign manner. - Systematically destroy all confiscated FAE.
G.7:
- Significantly decrease the risk of proliferation and diversion of firearms, ammunition and explosives.
- Strengthen the capacities of relevant state institutions (armed forces, law enforcement, forest guards, customs, correctional services) to establish inspection systems and implement Life Cycle Management (LCM) of SALW and ammunition (where relevant).
- Ensure safe and secure SALW/firearms and ammunition storage facilities, designated based on identified needs and in accordance with international standards
- Build the capacities of relevant legal entities (producers, repair shops, retail, trade, shooting ranges, hunting ranges, private security companies, training centers) to establish inspection systems.
- Increase human resources and administrative capacities of state institutions for monitoring, oversight and evaluation of the firearms and ammunition stocks of legal entities and individuals.
Target year:
2024
[SALW = Small Arms and Light Weapons. FAE = Firearms, Ammunition and explosives]]