The Italian report contains information for the year 2011 on the dissemination of the Convention and its Protocols to the armed forces and to the civilian population, the legislation related to the Convention and Protocols, the measures taken on technical cooperation and assistance. In the form on other relevant matters, there are provided data on the operations of confiscation, recover and destruction of landmines and explosive remnants by the Italian armed forces in Afghanistan and Lebanon, and on the activities of mine clearance with UNIFIL.
Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, as amended on 3 May 1996 annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), Reporting Formats for Article 13 paragraph 4 and Article 11 paragraph 2 (2012); Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Reporting Forms pursuant to Article 10, Paragraph 2 (b) of the Protocol and the Decision of the First Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V (as adopted by the First Conference at its second plenary meeting on 5 November 2007) (2012)