Cluster Munitions Distribution 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
Distribution or Allocation to End-Users
Defined as: Entities that knowingly allocate, fulfil, supply, route, or deliver cluster munitions from a manufacturer, seller, or stockpile to an identified military or government recipient and exercise control over recipient or destination.
02Criterion
Authorized Cluster Munition Distributors
Defined as: Licensed arms distributors or wholesalers with a documented distribution mandate and actual cluster-munition distribution activity. General authorization or portfolio capability alone is insufficient.
03Criterion
Military Supply-Chain Management With Cluster-Munition Control
Defined as: Entities contracted to manage fulfilment, inventory release, allocation, routing, or supply hubs that include identified cluster munitions and that exercise control over recipients or destinations.
04Criterion
Last-Mile Cluster Munition Fulfilment or Handover
Defined as: Entities that knowingly manage last-mile allocation, fulfilment, handover, or delivery of operational cluster munitions, explosive submunitions, explosive bomblets, or dedicated components to military or government end-users.
05Criterion
Regional or Multinational Distribution With an Identified Role
Defined as: Entities with a documented distribution, allocation, fulfilment, or supply-chain role in a government-to-government, allied, or multinational cluster-munition arrangement. Participation in the arrangement without a distribution role is insufficient.
06Criterion
Corroborated Cluster Munition Distribution Evidence
Defined as: Entities for which official records, contracts, supply documents, sanctions or enforcement records, treaty monitors, or authoritative investigations provide an exact legal-entity, product, distribution role, and time attribution, corroborated by a primary source or another independent authoritative source. 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
Producers Without Distribution Role
Defined as: Companies that manufacture cluster munitions but outsource or delegate distribution to third parties and do not control downstream logistics.
02Criterion
Retail or Civilian Distributors (Non-Military)
Defined as: Commercial distribution companies without weapons licenses or roles in military logistics.
03Criterion
Transportation Without Distribution or Allocation Control
Defined as: Entities that knowingly transport cluster munitions but do not select recipients, allocate inventory, fulfil an order, control destination, or otherwise manage distribution. Transportation is assessed separately.
04Criterion
Distributors of Conventional Munitions Only
Defined as: Entities that handle artillery shells, missiles, or bombs not configured for submunition deployment.
05Criterion
Demilitarized or Inert Munitions Handlers
Defined as: Companies that distribute non-functional cluster munitions for educational or museum use only.
06Criterion
Historical-Only Cluster Munition Distribution
Defined as: Entities with verified past distribution, allocation, fulfilment, or controlled delivery of cluster munitions, 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.