The Meeting of the States Parties (Geneva, 24 - 25 November 2005) decided on mandates for the GGE to continue its work in 2006 on the following issues: Explosive Remnants of War, Mines Other Than Anti-Personnel Mines, possible options to promote Compliance with the Convention and its annexed Protocols, preparations for the Third Review Conference, the possibility to establish a sponsorship programme under the Convention and on the modality of such a sponsorship programme, and to achieve the goal of universality of the Convention and its annexed Protocols.

The States Parties decided to convene the Third Review Conference in Geneva from 7 to 17 November 2006 in conjunction with the Eighth Annual Conference of the States Parties to Amended Protocol II.

The Meeting also decided that all necessary preparations for the Third Review Conference be undertaken within the framework of the existing GGE, which was undertaken in three sessions at Geneva during 2006, as follows: 6 – 10 March 2006; 19 – 23 June 2006; and 28 August – 6 September 2006.


CCW GGE Thirteenth Session (Geneva, 6 - 10 March 2006)

CCW GGE Fourteenth Session (Geneva, 19 - 23 June 2006)

CCW/GGE/XIV/1 Provisional Programme of Work
CCW/GGE/XIV/2 Amendment to the Convention
CCW/GGE/XIV/3 Sponsorship Programme under the Convention: A Possible Operational Way Forward
CCW/GGE/XIV/4/Rev.1 Revised Proposal on a Plan of Action to Promote Universality of the CCW
CCW/GGE/XIV/WP.1 Views on the CCW Sponsorship program
CCW/GGE/XIV/WP.2 Alternative Approach to Promoting Compliance with the Convention and its Annexed Protocols
CCW/GGE/XIV/WP.3 Preparing a Review of the CCW and its Protocols
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/1 Provisional Agenda for the Meeting of the Military and Technical Experts on ERW
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/1/Add.1 Provisional Agenda for the Meeting of the Military and Technical Experts on ERW – Addendum - Annotated Provisional Agenda
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/1/Add.2 Provisional Agenda for the Meeting of the Military and Technical Experts on ERW – Addendum - Draft Table of Explosive Ordnance Types and Systems
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/1/Add.2/Corr.1 (English and Russian only) Provisional Agenda for the Meeting of the Military and Technical Experts on ERW – Addendum - Draft Table of Explosive Ordnance Types and Systems - Corrigendum
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/WP.1 Remarks on documents CCW/GGE/XIII/WG.1/WP.12, CCW/GGE/XIII/WG.1/WP.12/Add.1 and CCW/GGE/XIII/WG.1/WP.12/Add.2
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/WP.2 Responses to document CCW/GGE/X/WG.1/WP.2, entitled IHL and ERW, dated 8 March 2005
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/WP.3 Technical Comments on Document CCW/GGE/XIII/WG.1/WP.8
CCW/GGE/XIV/WG.1/WP.4 Preliminary Thoughts on a Possible Approach to Recommendation 3
CCW/GGE/XIV/INF.1 (English/French/Spanish Only) List of Participants