Text tabled : A7-0157/2011

  Nuno Teixeira (PPE), in writing. – (PT) The purpose of the proposal for a regulation on implementing Article 10 of the United Nations Firearms Protocol (UNFP) is to incorporate this article into European law. Therefore, the intention is to implement a harmonised and simplified system for the trade in firearms for civilian use within the EU. The UNFP provides for the importing, exporting and transit of the aforementioned articles to third countries, and covers several categories of user. At the same time, this simplification of procedures aims to combat the threat to public safety as regards the production and illicit trafficking of arms, and enables the European industry itself to be sustainable. I consider it essential that the Member States ratify the UNFP, since it is a fundamental document and supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime.