National laws, regulations and administrative procedures:

Ordnance No. 62/64 of 16 October 1962 on war materials, arms and ammunition (manufacture, import, export, sale and transfer) could do with updating in order to include provisions on marking, tracing, transfer and destruction of surplus arms.

Accurate and comprehensive records for all marked SALW within their territory:

The government is carrying out an inventory of material related to arms in all parts of the Armed Forces in order to establish new arms registers. Congo has also computerised information related to the management of arms movements, using the software, "Dream".

Measures taken for undertaking traces and responding to tracing requests:

Operational Informaton Exchange:

The Congolese government supports the initiative of Sao Tomé and Principe, launched by the Permanant Standing Committee on Security Questions realted to Central Africa in 2006, to put in place a coordinated system for the control of SALW circulation, with the major objective of leading to a convention linking all of the states in the subregion. The Government has also concluded a tripartite agreement with the DRC and Angola under which the three States parties organises regular patrols of their common borders in order to combat transborder criminality.

Needs and Request for Assistance::
The governmnet has come up against financial difficulties in acquiring the necessary technical material to establish a reliable system of marking

Implementation challenges and opportunities: