Blinding Laser Weapons screen criteria

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

01Criterion
Prohibited Blinding Laser Weapon Design and Production
Defined as: Companies and other entities that design, manufacture, or produce laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole or one combat function, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision.
02Criterion
Research, Development, and Engineering of Prohibited Blinding Laser Weapons
Defined as: Companies and other entities that conduct research, development, engineering, testing, or design work for a laser weapon with a verified permanent-blinding anti-personnel function.
03Criterion
Assembly, Integration, or Material Modification of Prohibited Blinding Laser Weapons
Defined as: Companies and other entities that assemble, integrate, or materially modify a laser system into a weapon whose sole or one combat function is to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision.
04Criterion
Sale, Supply, or Contracted Delivery of Prohibited Blinding Laser Weapons
Defined as: Companies and other entities that sell, supply, broker, or deliver a prohibited blinding laser weapon under a product-specific military or government contract.
05Criterion
Export, Transfer, or Distribution of Prohibited Blinding Laser Weapons
Defined as: Companies and other entities that export, transfer, or distribute a prohibited blinding laser weapon where the exact product, entity, and transaction role are established.
06Criterion
Corroborated Official or Monitoring Evidence of Prohibited Blinding Laser Involvement
Defined as: Companies and other entities for which an official finding, treaty-monitoring record, sanction, or reputable specialist report identifies the exact entity, product, and prohibited activity and the claim is supported by underlying or independent activity-specific evidence. List membership 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

01Criterion
Rangefinding, Target Designation, Communications, and Guidance Lasers
Defined as: Companies and other entities whose laser systems are designed for rangefinding, target designation, communications, guidance, or comparable functions and are not specifically designed to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision.
02Criterion
Medical, Industrial, Scientific, and Telecommunications Lasers
Defined as: Companies and other entities that produce lasers for medical, industrial, scientific, manufacturing, telecommunications, or other civilian applications without a prohibited anti-personnel weapon design.
03Criterion
Temporary Dazzling and Visual Warning Systems
Defined as: Companies and other entities that produce laser dazzlers, visual warning devices, or temporary disorientation systems not specifically designed to cause permanent blindness.
04Criterion
Sensor-Targeting or Optical-Disruption Systems Without a Permanent-Blinding Design
Defined as: Companies and other entities that develop systems intended to disrupt cameras, optical sensors, or other enhanced vision equipment without a verified design to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced human vision.
05Criterion
Research or Testing Without a Prohibited Anti-Personnel Design
Defined as: Universities, laboratories, and companies conducting laser research, safety testing, protective research, or general directed-energy work without a verified prohibited permanent-blinding weapon function.
06Criterion
Historical-Only Blinding Laser Weapons Involvement
Defined as: Entities with verified past development, production, assembly, sale, supply, transfer, or programme involvement in prohibited blinding laser weapons, 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.