Initial Reports

Under Article 13(1) of the ATT, States Parties are required to provide an Initial Report to the ATT Secretariat that describes the measures the state has taken to implement the Treaty, ‘including national laws, national control lists and other regulations and administrative measures’.

Each State Party is required to submit its Initial Report ‘within the first year after entry into force of this Treaty for that State Party’. For each state that ratified the Treaty before it entered into force on 24 December 2014, the deadline for submission of its Initial Report was 23 December 2015. For a state that ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to the Treaty after 24 December 2014, the Treaty enters into force for that state ninety days following the date of deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession in accordance with Article 22. The deadline for submission of its Initial Report is twelve months after that date. 

Initial reports are available below: