Traduction de «désactivation des armes à feu » (Français → Anglais) :

The Commission will review the existing legislation on firearms in 2016 to improve the sharing of information (e.g. by uploading information on seized firearms in Europol’s information system), to reinforce traceability, to standardise marking, and to establish common standards for neutralising firearms.

There is a clear lack of data availability related to security issues (e.g. data on crimes not disaggregated per category of firearms, limited distinction between legal and illegal firearms used in crimes, limited data on the production of civil firearms per MS, etc.) as well as poor quality of data available in relation to the civilian firearms market structure (i.e. production, import and export of civilian firearms, employees and turnover of companies operating in the sector).

The evaluators and the discussion with MS have highlighted the following critical issues for further action: a) the issue of convertibility of blank firing weapons (such as alarm guns) into real firearms, b) the need to clarify requirements for the marking of firearms (allowing their traceability), c) the need for common and stringent guidelines for the deactivation of firearms, d) the need to clarify definitions e) the need to consider internet selling arrangements, f) the need to streamline and improve the national data-exchange systems and explore the possibilities for interoperability and g) the need to strengthen data collection act ...[+++]ivities related to civilian firearms and related criminal offences to support appropriately future decision-making processes at EU level.

2.1. The "Firearms Protocol" does not offer any truly operative criteria for this report in its definition of a "firearm": in Article 3, the definition of firearm includes in the assimilation to a firearm only objects which can be " readily converted" for that purpose.

(46) As mentioned above, the Directive classifies firearms into four categories: category A (prohibited firearms), category B (firearms subject to authorisation), category C (firearms subject to declaration) and category D (firearms that can be sold freely in the Member States).

(22) As mentioned above, the transfer of a firearm from one Member State to another is only possible if the detailed procedures provided for in the Directive are followed: either the procedure to be applied to transfers of firearms between Member States (Article 11), or the procedure to be applied to transfers of firearms by individuals during a journey (Article 12).