Evaluated screen

Anti-Personnel Mines Transportation

Identifies entities that knowingly carry, move, handle, store in transit, or provide controlled logistics for operational anti-personnel mines, mine kits, or dedicated mine components. Transportation does not by itself establish ownership transfer, import, export, sale, or distribution.

Type
Evaluated
Version
2026.08.21.2
Published
Aug 21, 2026
Inclusions
6
Exclusions
6
How to read this definition

Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.

Can establish this activity

Included when supported

Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.

6 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Knowing Physical Transportation of Operational Anti-Personnel Mines

    Defined as: Entities that knowingly carry or move operational anti-personnel mines between locations, including domestic movement, cross-border carriage, movement to storage, or movement to a deployment area.

  2. 02Criterion

    Specialized Logistics for Anti-Personnel-Mine Transportation

    Defined as: Entities contracted to provide controlled freight, secure conveyance, armoured transport, or other specialized physical-movement services for operational anti-personnel mines.

  3. 03Criterion

    Shipping Records Establishing a Transportation Role

    Defined as: Entities identified in government, military, customs, carrier, or shipping records as physically carrying or handling a specific anti-personnel-mine shipment. A sale, transfer, or procurement record without a transportation role is insufficient.

  4. 04Criterion

    Licensed Carriers Knowingly Transporting Anti-Personnel Mines

    Defined as: Licensed freight forwarders, bonded couriers, carriers, or handlers that knowingly physically move operational anti-personnel mines under controlled arms-shipment procedures.

  5. 05Criterion

    Deployment Logistics Involving Physical Mine Movement

    Defined as: Private military or logistics contractors that knowingly physically move anti-personnel mines to or within a deployment area. General combat logistics without mine-specific carriage is insufficient.

  6. 06Criterion

    Corroborated Transportation Evidence From Authoritative Investigations

    Defined as: Entities for which an NGO, treaty monitor, UN body, government record, sanctions or enforcement record, or other authoritative investigation provides an exact legal-entity, product, transportation, and time attribution concerning treaty-defined anti-personnel mines, and the assertion is corroborated by a primary source or another independent authoritative source. List membership or a combined controversial-weapons list alone is insufficient.

Does not establish this activity on its own

Excluded on this basis alone

These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.

6 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Transportation of Anti-Vehicle or Command-Only Devices Without a Victim-Activated Mode

    Defined as: Entities that transport only anti-vehicle mines or command-detonated explosive devices that require deliberate human activation and have no available mode triggered by the presence, proximity, or contact of a person. Sensor technology, remote delivery, self-destruction, self-neutralization, or self-deactivation does not by itself place a victim-activated mine outside the treaty definition.

  2. 02Criterion

    Shipping of Inert or Deactivated Mines

    Defined as: Firms moving display-only, demilitarized, or training-purpose landmines that pose no operational threat.

  3. 03Criterion

    Generic Freight or Courier Services (Unaware Cargo)

    Defined as: Logistics companies that transport containers but have no knowledge or control over the presence of anti-personnel mines inside.

  4. 04Criterion

    Humanitarian Mine Action Organizations

    Defined as: NGOs or contractors involved in the movement of recovered anti-personnel mines strictly for destruction or forensic analysis under disarmament programs.

  5. 05Criterion

    Historical-Only Transportation

    Defined as: Entities with verified past transportation or controlled logistics for operational anti-personnel mines or the applicable outside-definition devices, where reliable evidence establishes that the qualifying activity has fully ceased, been divested, transferred, dismantled, terminated, or otherwise ended and no current qualifying involvement remains. Historical-only activity does not qualify as current involvement. Preserve the historical record separately with the activity period, effective cessation or transfer date, relevant entity, product, programme, facility, or contract, and supporting evidence. Absence of recent evidence alone is not sufficient to establish cessation.

  6. 06Criterion

    Transport of General Explosives Without Mine Designation

    Defined as: Entities shipping explosive materials or components not specifically linked to anti-personnel mine systems.

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Taxonomy version 2026.08.21.2, published Aug 21, 2026. Material changes receive a new immutable release so earlier evaluations remain tied to the definitions and criteria used.

Anti-Personnel Mines (Treaty Definition)