Agenda for UN Workshop on the purposes of crime prevention and public safety
United Nations
Ljubljana, Slovenia
22-26 September 1997
Monday, 22 September, 1997
Item 1 Opening of the workshop and organization of work
Item 2 Election of officers
Item 3 Overview and discussion of the United Nations International Study on Firearm Regulation: contributions from the countries of the region
Item 4 Statements of representatives of interested non-governmental organizations in accordance with operative paragraph 6 of Economic and Social Council resolution 1997/28, of 21 July 1997
Tuesday, 23 September, 1997
Item 5 Criminal cases, accidents and suicides in which firearms are involved, including the number of such cases and the number of victims involved, and the application of firearm regulation by the law enforcement authorities
(i) Criminal cases, suicides, accidents
(ii) Women, juveniles, and firearm violence
(iii) Safety of police officers and civil service personnel
Wednesday, 24 September, 1997
Item 6 The situation with regard to transnational illicit trafficking in firearms
(i) Smuggling and transnational illicit trafficking
(ii) Firearm ballistics/forensics including tracing technology
(iii) Technical assistance, training, and information sharing
(iv) Bilateral, regional or multilateral agreements or arrangements on combating illicit trafficking in firearms
Thursday, 25 September, 1997
Item 7 National legislation and regulations relevant to firearm regulation and collection of comparable information
Item 8 Relevant initiatives for firearm regulation at the regional and interregional levels Presentation/Activities sponsored by the Host Government
Friday, 26 September, 1997
Item 9 Possible development of a United Nations declaration of principles based, inter alia, on the following regulatory approaches:
(a) Regulations relating to firearm safety and storage;
(b) Appropriate penalties and/or administrative sanctions for offences involving the misuse or unlawful possession of firearms;
(c) Mitigation of, or exemption from, criminal responsibility, amnesty or similar programmes that individual Member States determine to be appropriate to encourage citizens to surrendere illegal, unsafe or unwanted firearms;
(d) A licensing system, inter alia, including the licensing of firearm businesses, to ensure that firearms are not distributed to persons convicted of serious crimes or other persons who are prohibited under the laws of the respective Member States from owning or possessing firearms;
(e) A record-keeping system for firearms, inter alia, including a system for the commercial distribution of firearms and a requirement for appropriate marking of firearms at manufacture and at import, to assist criminal investigations, discourage theft and ensure that firearms are distributed only to persons who may lawfully own or possess firearms under the laws of the respective Member States.
Item 10 Adoption of the conclusions and recommendations of the Workshop
Closure of the Workshop
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