International Humanitarian Law Instruments

Austria is Party to the all international humanitarian instruments listed in the pledge. Austria ratified the 2006 Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance on 7 June 2012 and ratified Additional Protocol III to the Geneva Conventions on 3 June 2009. Austria is also Party to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and ratified its [First] Protocol as well as its Second Protocol. Moreover, Austria is a Party to Protocol V to the 1980 CCW Convention since 1 October 2007. With regard to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), Austria, as Party to the Treaty since 3 June 2014, continues its efforts to promote the ratification and accession to the ATT with a view to achieving its universal application.